The Trump administration’s “America First” policy stance is reshaping the global economic and geopolitical landscape, redefining trade, investment and alliance frameworks long underpinned by U.S. leadership. Trump’s maximalist threat has pitted the US against many of its global peers, as well as foreign advisers scrambling
At its core, the policy prioritises narrowing the U.S. trade deficit and restoring domestic industrial strength, using tools such as blanket reciprocal tariffs and broad discretionary trade actions that depart from post-wa
