From More Tariffs To Using North Korea As Leverage, Here Are China’s Options For Responding To Trump’s Latest Trade Escalation
Overnight, China promised to respond to the Trump administration's ill-advised decision to ratchet the trade tensions up by publishing a list tied to the proposed imposition of tariffs on some $200 billion in additional Chinese goods.
Just to reiterate, this wasn't entirely unexpected. But it does suggest that the Trump administration is ready and willing to escalate this situation even before it "needs" to be escalated. That is, it's not entirely clear why the USTR didn't wait until after the
Given that the United States has put up trade tiffs with our neighbors to the north, south, and Europe; China can create a united effort with every country we have upset from Iran to Canada.
Given that the Trumpists already believe there is a sinister “globalist” conspiracy aligned against them, they were probably assuming all those countries were in cahoots anyway.