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Were tariffs a mistake? Trump's ex-ambassador & EU minister debate

Brace for an economic nuclear winter. That's the brutal assessment of US President Donald Trump's tariffs from one of his billionaire campaign supporters. In a single afternoon, the president dismantled the entire global trading system. But is that really a bad thing? And could some countries stand to gain, negotiating their way to a better deal all round? It's up for debate on Counterpoints on Al Arabiya News with Melinda Nucifora. Guests: Carla Sands – Vice Chair of the Center for Energy and Environment at the America First Policy Institute and a Former US ambassador to Denmark during Donald Trump's first administration Bruno Macaes – Former Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs, a geopolitical consultant, and author of the recently released 'World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics'