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Lessons from Lesotho on trade and alliances

How President Trump's trade policies could drive developing nations to form alliances with China, perhaps out of desperation.

Lesotho- pronounced ,li-su-tu -is a small African nature that President Trump threatened with 50% tariffs, describing as a country nobody had ever heard of. Maybe that’s enough for his disciples to dismiss the hardship tariffs will place on the country, where youth unemployment is rife and the minimum wage is US$100 per month. Phil says twenty years ago…

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