{"id":2054,"date":"2025-04-04T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2054\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:30:08","slug":"can-the-worlds-free-traders-withstand-trumps-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/2054\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the world\u2019s free-traders withstand Trump\u2019s attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">The condemnation was quick to arrive. \u201cThere seems to be no order in the disorder. No clear path through the complexity and chaos that is being created,\u201d said Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in response to the barrage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/finance-and-economics\/2025\/04\/03\/trump-takes-americas-trade-policies-back-to-the-19th-century\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tariffs unleashed<\/a> by Donald Trump on April 2nd.  In a rare break with its security protector, Taiwan\u2019s cabinet spokesperson called Donald Trump\u2019s measures \u201cextremely unreasonable\u201d. The levies \u201chave no basis in logic&#8230;This is not the act of a friend,\u201d was the verdict of Anthony Albanese, Australia\u2019s prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The condemnation was quick to arrive. \u201cThere seems to be no order in the disorder. No clear path&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1366,12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-2054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-finance-economics","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114277110404738904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}