How is Trump changing the global economy with his trade policies? (Soumaya Keynes)

President Donald Trump tweeted back in March that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” But from alienating America’s closest allies to his increasingly hard-line rhetoric towards China and Iran, is the President making irreversible changes to the global economy? On this week’s TrumpWatch, US economics editor for The Economist and co-host of the weekly podcast “Trade Talks” Soumaya Keynes considers what it means that “the world trading system is under attack,” as the title of one of her recent articles reads, and what the permanent fallout could be.