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WASHINGTONPresident Donald

Trump is increasinglyblurring the line betweenAmerica’s national andeconomic security, en-abling him to harnesspowerful tools meant topunish the world’s worstglobal actors and redirectthem at nearly everytrading partner, includ-ing Mexico, Japan, Chinaand Europe.Over a few weeks,

Trump has declaredEuropean and Japanesecars, Chinese telecomequipment and Mexicanimmigrants nationalsecurity threats. Thosedeclarations have giventhe president authority touse Cold War powers toinflict economic pain oncountries through tariffs,government blacklistsand other restrictions.While previous admin-

istrations tried to dealwith economic and secu-rity threats separately,Trump has deliberatelymixed the two, viewinganother country’s tradepractices as dangerous tothe United States as itsmilitary abilities.It is a view he has

espoused since the 2016campaign trail, where hepushed his “AmericaFirst” agenda and vowedto protect companies thathe believed were on thelosing end of globaltrade. Once in office,Trump immediatelypulled the United Statesout of the multinational

Trans-Pacific Partnershipand initiated investiga-tions into importedgoods, like washing ma-chines and solar panels,that he believed wereflooding the U.S. market.His approach has

grown more aggressiveover the past two years,culminating in an expan-sive view of nationalsecurity that has plungedthe United States into aneconomic war with near-ly every trading partner,including longtime allies.Trump threatened to

invoke emergency pow-ers created in 1977 toimpose tariffs on Mexico,making him the firstpresident to aim at aclose ally a law tradition-ally used to impose eco-nomic sanctions on for-eign adversaries for ter-rorism and other wrong-doing.He has made heavy

use of a 1962 provisionthat allows him to claptariffs on imports thatare found to pose a na-tional security threat,most recently declaring

cars from Europe andJapan a risk to America.And the administration

has turned to a Cold Warplaybook with China,blacklisting companieslike the telecom giantHuawei from buying U.S.products and drawing upnew restrictions on thetypes of technology – likebiotech and high-per-formance computing –that can be exportedoverseas.“To this administra-

tion, everything is aboutnational security,” saidChad Bown, a seniorfellow at the PetersonInstitute for Internation-al Economics. “Every-thing they can put theirhands on falls under thatframing. They use it asan excuse to imposetariffs in ways that wouldotherwise violate traderules.”Trump says the ap-

proach is a response toyears of failed diplomacythat did nothing to stopjobs, manufacturingability and innovationfrom leaving the United

States. His adminis-tration argues that theerosion of Americanindustries presents adirect threat to the Unit-ed States’ future.“We are reasserting

these fundamentaltruths: A nation withoutborders is not a nation,”Trump said as he un-veiled his national secu-rity plan in December2017. “A nation that doesnot protect prosperity athome cannot protect itsinterests abroad.”“Economic security is

national security,” PeterNavarro, the WhiteHouse trade adviser, saidin November 2018 in aspeech in Washington.“And if you think abouteverything the Trumpadministration has beendoing in terms of eco-nomic and defense pol-icy, you understand thatthis maxim really is theguiding principle.”Critics say the strategy

is allowing the Trumpadministration to makean end run around traderules meant to preventthe United States andother countries fromratcheting up barriersand falling into endlesstrade wars. Rules set byCongress and the WorldTrade Organizationcarve out wide latitudefor presidential actionbased on national securi-ty, letting the adminis-tration erect economicbarriers that it wouldotherwise be restrictedfrom building.But equating economic

security with nationalsecurity carries risks,

including straining rela-tions with foreign gov-ernments and turningalready contentious is-sues – like trade practices– into intractable dis-putes.Republican lawmakers

and business groups areincreasingly warningabout the administra-tion’s approach, sayingthat lumping tough, dis-parate issues togetherwill chill relations withother governments andput U.S. companies at adisadvantage. Whilemany lawmakers aregenerally supportive ofTrump’s punishing ap-proach to China, theyhave been outspokenagainst imposing penal-ties on allies like Japan,Canada, Mexico andEurope, saying it willhurt U.S. companies –whose supply chainscrisscross borders – andcreate bigger securityproblems down the road.Earlier this year,

Trump declared a stateof emergency at thesouthern border withMexico. And late last

month, Trump threat-ened tariffs of up to 25%on all Mexican goods.On Friday evening,

Trump said on Twitterthat his approach hadworked and that thetariffs would be “indefi-nitely suspended” be-cause Mexico had agreedto take steps to “stem thetide of Migration.”The agreement, laid

out in broad strokes in aone-page document fromthe State Department,said that Mexico hadagreed to deploy its na-tional guard throughoutthe country to stop mi-grants from reaching theUnited States and toexpand a program thatmakes some migrantsseeking asylum in theUnited States wait inMexico while theirclaims are processed.Trump was the first

president to threatentariffs using the emer-gency powers act and thefirst to invoke it to puni-sh a close ally like Mex-ico.

ANALYSIS

Trump plunges the U.S.into multiple fightsBY ANA SWANSON ANDPAUL MOZURNew York Times

TOM BRENNER NYT

President Donald Trump takes questions fromreporters May 30. The Trump administration hasargued that economic security is national security.