Trump Wants World to Subsidise US Empire

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 22 2025 (IPS)

Donald Trump’s top economic advisor claims the President has weaponised tariffs to ‘persuade’ other nations to pay the US to maintain its supposedly mutually beneficial global empire.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Geopolitical economist Ben Norton was among the first to highlight the significance of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers chairman Stephen Miran’s briefing at the Hudson Institute.

The Institute is...