On Wednesday, President Donald Trump suddenly announced 90 days Pause With the notable exceptions of the People’s Republic of China for most of his planned “mutual” tariffs. With China so incredibly independence as the focus of America’s economic and geopolitical rage, Trump has not only made it clear that the US views China and its fascinating Communist Party as a major threat of the 21st century.
As a New Yorker from “Outerborough” from Queens, Trump has long been seen in a different way than most of his white-shoe brothers and one of his fellow patients who live in the (literally and proverb) rivers of Manhattan. Virtually throughout his career, Trump has served as the archetype of “class traitors.” As I wrote in my essay last year, the qualification of the ruling class of “elites” “heart, heart, concern, general sensitivity clearly comes with the class of the country” is the essence of Trump’s nationalist popular Magazine Political Union. But it is also the person who was hosted decades ago since his earliest interview with New York City tabloids and television.
There is no better example than Trump’s most consistent political position, trade. In the 1980s, he was wary of Japan’s rise as an economic superpower, arguing that the US trade deficit with Japan was a problem and that the US should respond with crippling tariffs. (It appears Ronald Reagan, who slapped 100% tariffs on many Japanese goods in 1987, was listening.) In recent decades, Trump applied the same logic to new threats in China. For example, four years before he began his successful presidential election in 2011, Trump opposed the widely practiced Chinese currency. operation: “They manipulated their currency very hard against this country. It’s almost impossible for us to compete with Chinese companies.”
In the first year of his first presidency, President Trump directed the office of US trade representatives to investigate China’s trade practices. The subsequent reports were terrible, with Trump implementing numerous tariffs on Chinese goods. For his rare credit, former President Joe Biden was primarily maintained and even built. In addition to his first term of tariffs, Trump filed a formal World Trade Organization lawsuit against China, alleging deceptive trade practices and theft of intellectual property. As Trump said at the time Tweet: “Today, I have directed US trade representatives to take action.
Trump’s tariff escalation on communists is the natural pinnacle of work to reset US economic relations that he began during his first term, suspending many other tariffs to allow bilateral trade negotiations and even giving some relief to the volatile bond market. This is also the natural culmination of 1988, short-lived third-party presidential president with the Trade Protectionist Reform Party in 2000.Oprah Winfrey Show” Interview. He mocked future presidential elections focused on trade. While immigration may be the most easily related issue to Trump’s Magazine movement, there is no problem that has approached Trump’s heart for decades more than trade.
Most importantly, Trump has not only been openly speaking about trade issues with China, but he has proven right.
Since Richard Nixon’s fateful trip to Mao Zedong in Beijing in 1972, all politically striped American elites have promised that welcoming China into the world economy would be a good thing for everyone involved. American consumers will get cheaper and more abundant products that we are sure to be informed. American exporters get a large and exciting new market to sell their products. And the Chinese themselves will soon enjoy the rewards of “political liberalization” that could only be obtained through “economic liberalization.” This was the dominant idea when Nixon visited China half a century ago, when the George W. Bush administration welcomed China to the World Trade Organization in 2001, and Barack Obama toasted by holding XI ginping at the White House in 2015.
It’s enough to say that everything is not going well according to the plan.
In Shanghai in 2022, government drones with speakers amid the incredible Covid-19 lockdown in the communist country Blast: “Controll your soul’s craving for freedom. Don’t open the window and sing.” Chinese companies engage in continuous intellectual property theft, bravely stealing corporate trade secrets of American companies, and illegally repacking them to export at subsidized prices.
One of the most problematic Chinese exports, Tiktok is a spiritual fentanyl designed to rely on the Western masses and dupe them into toxic ideology, launching Communist Party spyware. Speaking of (actual) fentanyl, China is heavily responsible for killing certain drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of vulnerable young Americans. Meanwhile, China sends “spy balloons” to the North American continent, sending its allies with the worst national actors on the planet. And if that’s not bad enough, China has made American manufacturing bases and national security critical supply chain infrastructure wrong.
For a long time, the elite has led the United States to disaster when it comes to trade with China. They acted in a catastrophic way with myopia, causing disaster to the country they claim to love. A US trade war with the illicit Chinese superpower must arise. China’s Communist Party must be crushed. And no one would be better at crushing them than Donald Trump, a class traitor living in the White House.
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