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The Art of the Squeal: America's Got Tariffs Season 2

Ladies and gentlemen, grab your popcorn and your economics textbooks (just kidding, nobody reads those) , because the greatest show in international relations is coming back for a second season! That's right, it's "Trump vs. Xi: Economic Boogaloo," where two world leaders compete to see who can make trade more complicated than assembly instructions from IKEA . The Art of the Squeal: America's Got Tariffs Season 2 Trump's approaching China policy with all the subtlety of a bull in a China shop – pun absolutely intended, folks. His grand strategy? Slapping tariffs on Chinese goods faster than a caffeinated toddler playing whack-a-mole. It's like trying to solve a Rubik's cube by painting all the sides the same color – technically you've made all the sides match, but you've kind of missed the point. Remember those trade wars from his first term? Well, they're getting a reboot, like every Hollywood movie nobody asked for. Trump's promisin...