Natalie Kitroeff is the Mexico Bureau Chief for The New York Times, best known for her extensive reporting on Mexican politics, drug violence, migration, and the U.S.-Mexico border.
“The most aggressive tariffs against China in decades didn't really stop China from dominating in manufacturing.”
A blunt, scroll-stopping conclusion that forces listeners to question whether tariffs as a geopolitical weapon are fundamentally ineffective against a manufacturing superpower.
Natalie Kitroeff
“It's been about one year of tariffs on China, one year of, I think it's fair to say, economic war on China — a crazy year, honestly, which was capped off by a Supreme Court ruling saying many of these tariffs were illegal.”
Characterizing U.S. trade policy as an 'economic war' that may have been constitutionally illegitimate reframes a year of market-moving decisions as potentially built on shaky legal ground.
Natalie Kitroeff