{"id":12256,"date":"2018-08-21T13:25:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12256"},"modified":"2018-08-21T13:25:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:25:12","slug":"how-sanctions-and-tariffs-became-trumps-weapons-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12256","title":{"rendered":"How sanctions and tariffs became Trump&#8217;s weapons of choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"54.0728744939\">\n<p>Either through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/insidestory\/2018\/08\/sanctions-work-180819191853998.html\">sanctions<\/a> or economic<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/countingthecost\/2018\/07\/car-wars-counting-cost-trump-tariffs-180707102148663.html\"> tariffs<\/a>, US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/11\/profile-president-donald-trump-161109050153947.html\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s administration has been using its economic clout as a political weapon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/06\/trump-threatens-200bn-tariffs-chinese-goods-180619050657868.html\">China<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/06\/eu-endorses-counter-trade-tariffs-180614154834675.html\">EU<\/a> have been the largest targets.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Shihab Rattansi reports from Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either through sanctions or economic tariffs, US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has been using its economic clout as a political weapon. China and the EU have been the largest targets. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Shihab Rattansi reports from Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}