Tariffs, Tyranny, and the Theater of the Absurd

As China dumps dollars and ICE arrests mayors, Trump sells gold-plated deportation apps and economic gaslighting on Capitol Hill

This weekend’s much-hyped U.S.-China trade summit in Geneva has so far produced exactly what most analysts expected: optics. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer arrived with bold talk and stiff suits. China sent Vice Premier He Lifeng, and, pointedly, its top public-security official, to signal that the fentanyl cris…