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Since the “Liberation Day” announcement on April 2—when reciprocal tariffs were imposed on all nations—the United States has endured nearly four months of challenging, tariff-driven bilateral negotiations. These efforts have now culminated in a landmark development: a new U.S.-EU trade agreement. This milestone signals that President Trump’s pursuit of fair trade and a fundamental “restructuring of globalization” is taking shape.
The world’s two largest economic blocs—the United States and the European Union—have now reached a bilateral agreement, following similar deals with the United Kingdom, Japan, and Vietnam. This moment brings to mind what I wrote four years ago, on the final day of President Trump’s first term, in my article “President Trump’s Three Political Legacies (Ideals and Leadership)”:
*Before January 2020, due to information asymmetry, like many others, all I saw and heard were caricatures and negative portrayals of Donald Trump.
But on January 19, 2020, I arrived in North America by chance—and with full access to information, I could finally judge for myself. Greatness or smallness, I realized, has nothing to do with personal preference or bias—it is measured by how the local people feel. So I looked at three things: ‘U.S. domestic affairs,’ ‘the international order,’ and ‘the restructuring of globalization.’ What did President Trump do, especially in the third area?（http://symbiosism.com.cn/5659.html）
*Third, the restructuring of globalization:
In light of the WTO’s reciprocal trade principle (wherein benefits offered to one member are extended to all), globalization had reached an impasse—captured by Rodrik’s Trilemma: free trade, national sovereignty, and democracy cannot all coexist. Over the past two decades, this has resulted in structural unfairness in global trade.
President Trump, drawing from The Art of the Deal, anchored his strategy in bilateral or regional negotiations, seeking fair trade based on three emerging chains—the industrial chain, supply chain, and value chain. His vision was a global restructuring anchored on the Triple Zero Rules: zero tariffs, zero barriers, and zero discrimination.
The USMCA was merely a beginning (albeit with some vulnerability, such as its lack of tariff provisions on third-party transshipments). Yet, by advancing one country, one region at a time, the result would ultimately be a new path for globalization—Global Symbiosism.*
This “Global Symbiosism” is precisely what I now describe as Globalization III—a new global order rooted in the intersubjective symbiosis of individuals, communities, and governments, whose vitality depends on self-organizing connectivity and dynamic balance.
At the end of that 2021 article, I wrote with deep emotion:
President Trump’s greatness lies in his foolish-hearted courage, saint-like wisdom, and knightly resolve. He embraces difficulty, advances where others hesitate, and has achieved extraordinary results. His work has set a demonstrative precedent for rebuilding the world order.
Just over three months ago, I said: Why the global tariff wave? Because Globalization 3.0 is inevitable.
Now it is July 28, 2025—writing from Vancouver.