A Trade War

President Trump has imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and to a lesser extent, Red China. The United States can live comfortably without the goods of our neighboring countries, but China produces so much of what we need, from consumer goods to medicines. In spite of Beijing being our chief antagonist, America still needs what they make and probably will, even as Trump rushes to bring manufacturing back home because it is the (sometimes exclusive) source of what we require to survive for the foreseeable future.