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It’s like a complicated relationship — on again, off again. We are talking about Donald Trump’s tariff policy. The US president has confounded world stock markets and allies with the imposition of harsh levies and then suspending them. He announced an exemption on electronic devices such as smartphones and computers, only to later say it will be short-lived. Now he plans to slap new duties on semiconductors in a month or so| Firstpost
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Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba raised eyebrows on Monday by saying that his country’s fiscal situation was worse than that of Greece – which has witnessed a decade-long financial crisis that has seen it borrow tens of billions of dollars from the EU and IMF. But what happened? And is Japan going down the same path as Greece?| Firstpost