However, given the list and kind of trademarks Trump has, the contrast with his hard-line anti-globalism since taking office is stark. The report said that during his first weeks as president, Trump had denounced China and Mexico for unfair trade practices and derided the European Union as “basically a vehicle for Germany”.
“Trump seems to be the archetypal businessman with mercantilist instincts,” Dani Rodrik, a professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, said in an email to NYT.
“‘Open your market for me to do business in it, but you can have access to mine only on my terms.'”
