In an address to the nation on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump vowed his administration would reclaim the Panama Canal, promising to fulfil a promise to retake the critical juncture that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Governments and markets are also reacting to Trump’s other big decision this week, to impose an additional new tariff of 10 per cent on imports from China, and duties of 25 per cent on those from Canada and Mexico.
The tariff dance takes yet another step and BlackRock is getting into the ports business. Plus, Donald Trump has given new life to Canada’s ruling party. Eric Platt Donald Trump started to kind of ramp up his attacks and hostilities on Canada, and that kind of galvanised the nation.
It would be equally futile to compare Trump’s address to any by his predecessors, including those he gave in his first term. This was in a category of one. In addition to being the longest by a mile in modern history,
More than a century later, Donald Trump has ... that look to Putin and Trump. But a united Europe also has formidable strengths that it needs to remember and call upon. The EU and the UK, put together, have an economy about 12 times the size of Russia ...
The US president has hit the ground running, but he is dogged by stubborn inflation and tepid approval ratings
According to a US citizen contracted by USAID, the chaos caused by Trump’s directive has resulted in food aid grown by American farmers spoiling at east African ports, and in some countries a run on ARVs.