President Donald Trump and his advisers said this was the plan all along: Scare the bejesus out of the world by announcing astronomically high tariffs, get countries to come to the negotiating table,

Gupta BEIJING/WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's sudden decision to pause most of the hefty duties he had just imposed on dozens of countries brought relief to battered global markets and anxious European leaders,

There is much more to this than straightforward retaliation, writes John Sudworth, and it traces back to his first term.