内容摘要：Once invoked, troops could be tasked with a range of duties, from quelling civil unrest and enforcing court orders to arresting and detaining migrants.

Once invoked, troops could be tasked with a range of duties, from quelling civil unrest and enforcing court orders to arresting and detaining migrants.

Trump's first-term trade war broke the mould and shattered the consensus. His successor, President Joe Biden, kept much of his tariffs on China in place.And yet, even though they have undoubtedly caused China some pain, they have not done much to change the economic model.

China now produces 60% of the world's electric cars – a large proportion of them made by its own homegrown brands - and 80% of the batteries that power them.So, now Trump is back, with this tit-for-tat escalation on levies.It would, arguably, be the biggest shock ever delivered to the established global trading system, were it not for all the other on-again off-again tariff measures the US president has rolled out in recent days.

What happens next depends on two key questions.Firstly, whether China takes up that offer to negotiate.

And secondly, assuming it eventually does, whether China is willing to make the kind of major concessions that America is looking for, including a complete overhaul of its export driven economic model.

In answering them, the first thing to say is that we are in completely uncharted territory, so we should be wary of anyone who says they know how Beijing is likely to react.About 1,100 jobs have been put at risk with the news the van-making plant will close.

Simmons expressed regret a deal could not be secured to continue production in Luton.She said: "We know the unions and ourselves and MPs worked really hard to put different options to Stellantis to see if we could keep the plant open, they turned them all down unfortunately.

"Jonathan Reynolds [the Secretary of State for Business and Trade] talked to them. Even Keir Starmer talked to them and I believe grants opportunities were put on the table to Stellantis but I think they made their mind up. They were going to close this plant."A South Carolina man convicted of bludgeoning his ex-girlfriend's parents to death has become the first US death row inmate to be executed by firing squad in the last 15 years.