It all started with Trade Deficit. #Covid #Thread
Obama era remained good for China. Again, like usual, US flexed against China a little and dared to extend some friendships to other asian countries, but China could mellow President Obama and Secretary Clinton without much trouble. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/america-china-relationship/">https://www.weforum.org/agenda/20...
China could humiliate Obama with no trouble.
China was playing it in a way that Obama and Hillary Clinton were chasing their own tails even in mere semantics. This is the sign of the sort of psychological control China could exercise over the US leadership.
And this saw the trade deficit favour China over the years.
Then comes Trump. The dude has no interest in semantics. He sees money. He sees the trade deficit favouring China and bleeding the US. He passes the trade sanctions, makes China lose and worry. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/23/donald-trump-trade-war-china-us-imf">https://www.theguardian.com/business/...
Now if it comes to sanctioning China merely on the economic deficit reasons, Trump would face a fair bit of criticism (not that he cares) because there are enough leftists within USA carrying water for China.
Trump has more...
The US admin finds the Huawei 5g ZTE issues. This is not just about trade deficit with China. China is shown to be posing a real threat to the national security, causing industrial espionage and potentially harming US industries. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/22/the-5g-fight-is-bigger-than-huawei/">https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/2...
Industrial espionage and national security issues- these are something Trump can find legitimacy in moving against China that his domestic opponents would find hard to oppose. American giants like Amazon and Apple could& #39;ve been victims. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/04/china-planted-chips-on-apple-and-amazon-servers-report-claims">https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...
Now everyone is speculating how China will strike back.
Some think they will post reverse sanctions. They see troubles in future of US, but not sure exactly how. They see what is in their field of vision only.
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