{"id":1045,"date":"2025-05-02T06:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2025-05-02T06:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:04:45","slug":"the-present-and-past-of-economic-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/2025\/05\/02\/the-present-and-past-of-economic-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"The present and past of economic wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The birth of the second President Trump triggered trade tensions and instantly transformed the global economic structure. Professor Lester C. Thurow, who was once an advisor to my company and was the dean of MIT Sloan School in the United States, stated the following in his book \u201cThe Head-to-Head\u201d published in March 1992:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;There is a\nbear in the forest. Some people say they can see it clearly, while others say\nthey can&#8217;t see it at all. Some say the bear is docile, while others say it is\nvicious and dangerous. If you can&#8217;t be sure which opinion is correct, wouldn&#8217;t\nit be wise to save up your strength to fight a bear? Just in case a bear\nappears.&#8221; This is a TV commercial by President Reagan from 1984.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we put the above into President Trump&#8217;s words, it would look like this: <br><br>&#8220;<em>The countries that are eating into US interests are those that have a trade surplus. Some say they can identify those countries, while others say their economic structure is too complex to identify. If it&#8217;s not clear which opinion is correct, then we should just go ahead and impose a 100% tariff and see how those countries respond, which will reveal the root cause of the trade deficit. So let&#8217;s try it.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The birth of the second President Trump triggered trade tensions and instantly transformed the global economic&hellip; <span class=\"clear\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/2025\/05\/02\/the-present-and-past-of-economic-wars\/\" class=\"more-link read-more\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The present and past of economic wars<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i> \u306e\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonquil.co.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}