2025-11-24
1 分钟Paul, how are you coping after almost a year of President Trump?
I'm not in despair.
A year ago I feared I might be.
The economy is troubled, but not a disaster area.
So it's kind of a weird state of suspension.
I'm Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at The Financial Times.
And I'm Paul Krugman,
professor at the City University of New York and now writer of a regular, sub-stack newsletter.
One of the things that I feel very strongly looking at what's been going on is China's winning.
Basically,
Trump has sort of made every country in the world I know of think China is more reliable than the United States.
He's weakening all America's soft and other forms of power.
It's almost as if China designed all this.
Yeah, if you wanted to make the case that he really is the mentor in Canada,
that the facts seem to support it.
He's enormously weakened America on basically everything that has been a source of our strength.
from the scientific base to the universities, to our credibility as a negotiating partner.
I mean, America looks really isolated.
Nobody has said, ah, this is a great idea.
We should do this too.