6/4/2025–|Last update: 6/4/202505:29 PM (Mecca time)
The British Guardian newspaper said that US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose mutual customs duties in varying proportions on his country’s imports of dozens of countries is to reformulate the American imperialism.
The newspaper’s editorial board of other countries advised the resistance of dependency on the United States, and to work to enhance its regional relations and reduce the possibility of being affected by the repercussions of the decision.
She added in an editorial that what Trump put in his speech on April 2 – which he described as Liberation Day – was not just an economic program, but an imperial plan.
Accept American domination
According to the newspaper, the customs duties and the national economic tendency of the American president are not related to correcting commercial imbalances; Rather, by forcing others to accept American economic domination, without this requires the United States to sacrifice its local advantage.
She pointed out that the United States is still suffering from a deficit in the commodities not because it “borrows” from abroad, but because the rest of the world is replaced by the goodness of the real goods of the American dollar that it cannot issue.
In exchange for this privilege, Trump is calling for a tribute, which is to control digital infrastructure, and the forced access of rentier companies in the field of super technology and the suppression of competing technologies.
The Guardian Editorial Board believes that the “American Empire” does not seek, by imposing these customs definitions, to withdraw from the world, but rather wants a world subject to its new conditions, although it is still economically benefiting as the dominant power.
Avoid unwilling revenge
As for the Sunday Times, it saw in its editorial that British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer was wise when he avoided uncomfortable retaliation by Trump, describing the US President’s vision of global trade as serious.
And considered that the impact of the trade war on a small country like Lesoto – which Trump recently said is a country that no one has heard before ” – indicates an arbitrary and uncompromising nature of its procedures.
She said Trump is being re -arranging the global economy, trying to return factories to America and return to the zero regime that was followed in the 19th century.
He suffers psychologically
She added that Starmer did the right thing by refusing to be drawn into short -term revenge, although reaching a free trade agreement between Britain and the United States through serious negotiations, far -fetch.
The newspaper stressed that Britain – which was imposed on the lowest rate of customs fees (10%) – will continue to support free trade and work more closely with the countries of the Commonwealth, the European Union, Japan, South Korea and even China.
She concluded by saying that the British Prime Minister must hope a sudden change in the path that Trump, which the newspaper describes as a president who suffers psychologically due to the economic damage he caused to his people.
