{"id":89262,"date":"2025-07-30T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=89262"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:38:07","slug":"trumps-tariff-threats-using-trade-as-a-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/trumps-tariff-threats-using-trade-as-a-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s tariff threats: Using trade as a weapon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k6zB4viKh8XWvRDxyWm\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nDonald Trump is using tariffs to pressure adversaries, a role usually played by sanctions. But does the threat of rising US inflation and retaliation make sanctions a safer choice?<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is using tariffs to pressure adversaries, a role usually played by sanctions. But does the threat of rising US inflation and retaliation make sanctions a safer choice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[191,501,819,2880,35531,1960,975,6627],"class_list":["post-89262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-china","tag-india","tag-relationship","tag-tariff","tag-tracking","tag-trade","tag-trump","tag-weapon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89263,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89262\/revisions\/89263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}