On Wednesday, President Trump abruptly announced a 90 -day pause in most of his specific “reciprocal” “reciprocal” tariffs, with the remarkable exception of the People's Republic of China. By pointing to China as surprisingly as the approach to the economic and geopolitical anger of the United States, Trump did not simply clarify that the United States sees China and its re regular communist party as our main threat of the 21st century, it was also taking another remarkable step to fulfill its own objective of the whole life to fundamentally restore the terms of the bilateral relationship of the US-China.
As a native New Yorker of Queens “Borough”, Trump has seen things differently from most of his white brothers and companions of a percentage that live in the river (literal and proverbial) in Manhattan. In practically his entire career, Trump has served as a “Class traitor” Archetype: someone who, as I wrote in a Essay last year“It can have the dominant class 'elite' credentials, but whose hearts, minds, concerns and general sensibilities are decidedly with the country class.” That is the essence of Trump Maga's nationalist-populist political coalition. But it is also who has been Trump since his first interviews with the tabloids and the TV hosts of New York City ago.
There is no better example than trade, Trump's most constant political position. In the 1980s, he was alarmed by Japan's rise as an economic superpower, arguing that the United States trade deficit with Japan was problematic and that the United States should respond with paralyzing tariffs. (It seems that President Reagan, who in 1987 slapped a 100% tariff on many Japanese goods, was listening). In recent decades, Trump has applied the same logic to the new threat of China. In 2011, for example, four years before launching his successful presidential career, Trump criticized the manipulation of widely practiced Chinese currencies: “They have manipulated their currency so violently towards this country that it is almost impossible for our companies to compete with Chinese companies.”
During the first year of his first presidential mandate, Trump ordered his office of the United States commercial representative to investigate Chinese commercial practices. The subsequent report was condemnatory, and Trump implemented numerous tariffs on Chinese products, tariffs that, for his rare credit, President Biden remained in place and was even built with greater levies on Chinese imports that entered into force last September.
In addition to its first period rates, Trump also presented a formal case of the World Trade Organization Against China, claiming deceptive commercial practices and theft of intellectual property. Like Trump Put it at that time In a tweet: “Today I addressed the United States commercial representative to take measures so that countries stop deceiving the system at the expense of the United States!”
Trump's tariff climbing this week against communist China, even when he stopped many other tariffs to allow bilateral commercial negotiations and give some relief to nerve bond markets, it is a natural culmination of work to restore the economic relationship between the United States and China that began during his first mandate. In the case, it is also the natural culmination of its short presidential duration of third parties in 2000 with the Commerce Protectionist Reform Party, as well as its 1988 interview “Oprah Winfrey Show”where he made fun of a future presidential career that would focus on trade. Immigration can be the problem more easily associated with Trump's Maga Movement, but there is no problem that has been increasingly loved for Trump's heart during the decades than commerce, first with Japan, and then with China.
The most important thing, Trump has not only been opened on the issue of trade with China, has been tested correct.
From the fateful trip of President Nixon to visit President Mao Zedong in Beijing in 1972, the American elites of all political stripes promised that welcoming China to the global economy would be good for all parties involved. American consumers, they informed us reliably, would get cheaper and more abundant goods; American exporters would get a new massive and exciting market to sell their products; And the Chinese themselves would soon reap the rewards of “political liberalization” that could only arise through “economic liberalization.” This was the dominant thought when Nixon visited China more than half a century ago, when the George W. Bush administration welcomed China to the World Trade Organization in 2001, and when President Obama organized and roasted Xi Jinping in the White House in 2015.
It is enough to say that not everything has worked exactly according to the plan.
In Shanghai in 2022, in the middle of the endless COVID-19 blocks of the communist country, Government drones with speakers Exploited: “Control the thirst for freedom of your soul. Do not open its windows and sing.” Chinese companies have dedicated themselves to the theft of intellectual property in series, blatantly stealing the commercial secrets of US companies and illegally repaining export at very subsidized prices.
Tiktok, a particularly problematic Chinese export, is the mental fentanyl designed to adicate the western masses and deceive them in poisonous ideologies, and Spyware of the Communist Party, to start. Speaking of Fentanilo (Real), China is largely responsible for that particular drug that kills hundreds of thousands of vulnerable young Americans. Meanwhile, China sends “spy balloons” in the American and routinely allied continent with the worst state actors on the planet. And if that were not bad enough, the United States manufacturing base and the infrastructure of the National Security Critical Supply chain have been decimated by China.
For too long, elites have taken the United States to the disaster when it comes to trade with China. They have acted in a myopian and ruin, bringing calamity to the nation they intend to love. The United States trade war with the dishonest superpower must happen. The Chinese Communist Party must be crushed, and there is no one better to crush them than the traitor of the White House par excellence, Donald Trump. Godspeed, Mr. President.
Josh Hammer's last book is “Israel and civilization: the fate of the Jewish nation and the destiny of the West. ” This article was produced in collaboration with the creators Syndicate. @Josh_hammer
