To understand Trump’s tariffs, we look at his main objective, China, and examine why many in that country see this as a historical opportunity, and Donald Trump as a “revolutionary” figure.
Front burner41:19When China and the United States fight, who wins?
A large part of the Donald Trump’s global rate regime is directed to the Chinese economy in an offer, he says, to force the country to a favorable agreement to the United States. In spite of this, officials in China have not been flipped, claiming that tariffs will hurt Americans more than the Chinese and compare themselves between Donald Trump’s actions and the “cultural revolution” of Mao Zedong.
Chinese officials have also responded to Donald Trump’s tariff program saying, in part: “If war is what the United States wants, be it a tariff war, a commercial war or any other type of war, we are ready to fight until the end.”
David Rennie is the columnist of The Economist, where he previously worked as a Beijing correspondent of the magazine. It joins us for a conversation about the Chinese-United States relationship, why officials in China see Trump as a “revolutionary” figure, and this one of the great moments of opportunity in modern history of China.
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