Rupa Subramanya is a researcher and commentator. She is a distinguished fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the co-author of "Indianomix: Making Sense of Modern India."
When then U.S. President Donald Trump imposed steep tariffs on Chinese goods worth $250 billion in 2018, he justified the policy by arguing that it would spur the return of manufacturing jobs and form an important plank of his "America First" policy.
