Summary
In 2016, during the American presidential election campaign, Edward Stourton travelled to the rustbelt of the United States to report on the new political power of Protectionism. Now, as Donald Trump seems poised for a trade war on two fronts - with China and Europe - he asks how far the American president will go to put "America First".
Producer Smita Patel Editor Hugh Levinson.
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| 0:59.5 | Today in an update to a podcast originally from 2016, Edward Sturtin looks at what lies behind President Trump's fear stand on trade policy. |
| 1:08.8 | In the summer of 2016, as the last American presidential election campaign gathered pace, I made a journey into the rust belt. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm driving down Cameron Street in a place called Stilton in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania and if you want to know why |
| 1:23.7 | trade looms so large in this presidential campaign you only have to look over |
| 1:27.1 | on my right they'd be making steel here since the 1860s and some is coming off the |
| 1:32.3 | production line today, |
| 1:33.0 | but mostly over here I can see nothing but mile upon mile of empty warehouses, |
| 1:38.0 | piles of rusting pipes and silent plants. |
| 1:42.0 | Of course many of the problems here date back a long time but |
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