‘Fundamentally wrong, brutal and paranoid’: how will the world respond to Donald Trump’s tariffs?

News Snapshot:

On Thursday evening, towards the end of a long week at a textiles factory on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyēn Thị Diẹu and her husband were watching the news. More than 8,700 miles away, US president Donald Trump was announcing sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on every country around the world. Nowhere was safe, even the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands off the western coast of Australia that, for some unexplained reason, were hit with a 10% tariff. His announcement launched a fierce global trade war and triggered a global market meltdown, including on Trump’s own cherished Wall...