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They really are clueless. Trade defecits are just what happens when your country is rich - you no longer have to be self-sufficient in the land-to-resource conversion, you can just buy things.

Am pushing my key insight bsky.app/profile/alex...

This wouldn’t surprise me at all. Though I’m curious how that works with some of those uninhabited islands. How do they get to, if I recall, 37% tariffs? Or did they use the tried and true method of establishing tariff rates by throwing darts at a dartboard in a dark room?

And yet somehow not surprising in it's stupidity.

And it’ll destroy the economies of poor SE Asian countries for nothing.