President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the top trade position sees China as a “generational challenge” to the US and has advocated for a strategic decoupling from the country.

Donald Trump says he will impose a 25% tariff on goods coming from Mexico and Canada, plus an extra 10% on Chinese goods.

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