Soumaya Keynes
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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and something in the plumbing breaks, I don't want to be there for that.
That sounds scary.
I suppose as a financial journalist, I should say I do want to be there for that because it would be a great economic story, but for my own well-being, not that keen.
Yeah, it's a good question.
So it's obviously, you know,
I wrote this book, How to Win a Trade War, which suggests that you can win a trade war.
I was telling people that I was writing this book and the number of people who said, is the answer, don't fight a trade war.
They all thought they were being hilarious and I had to pretend that they were hilarious every time.
The standard line is no one wins a trade war because they are costly, they are disruptive, they kill investment, they are bad news.
Fundamentally, I agree with that statement.
I think though, given where we are now in the global economy, the tense times that we're living in, in this era of geoeconomic conflict,
We're not in a position to say that, oh, you can't win a trade war, therefore we're not going to fight.
Actually, we need to expand our definition of winning a trade war to mean minimizing your wounds.
Now, President Trump is not thinking in that way.
President Trump still thinks it is possible to win a trade war and genuinely be better off for having deployed all these tariffs.
And to that, I would say tariffs are an extremely blunt tool.
They have all sorts of unintended consequences.
And if you think they are the answer to everything, then that is a foolish thing to think.
There are some specific problems where you may need to use them.
So stepping back, I think that the Chinese have effectively been fighting a trade war for much longer than the Trump administration.
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