{"id":185928,"date":"2025-04-10T19:53:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=185928"},"modified":"2025-04-10T19:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:53:47","slug":"china-is-ready-for-a-trade-war-with-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/china-is-ready-for-a-trade-war-with-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"China is ready for a trade war with the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The <\/span>bad news<\/span> for America and the rest of the West is that this time, China seems far more prepared and up for the fight.<\/span><\/span> On the one side, a chaotic US administration veering sharply from one policy to another.<\/span><\/span> On the other hand, a government that is too strong for its own good.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

China appeared unsure of how to respond to the unconventional new president of the United States and his use of tariffs during Trump’s first term.<\/span><\/span> Its diplomats’ rhetoric this time is far <\/span>more blunt and defiant<\/span>; “We are ready for you,” they <\/span>seem to be<\/span> saying, “and are up for the fight”.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

China and the United States have a long history of confrontation as well as dependence.<\/span><\/span> Back in the ’90s, China was allowed to trade on <\/span>favorable<\/span> terms.<\/span><\/span> The West held the belief that “they would become more democratic too” if they became wealthy like us.<\/span><\/span> It was a foolish assumption. <\/span><\/span>China remained authoritarian and was ruthless too, using piracy, reverse <\/span>engineering<\/span> and all-out theft of technology to catch up with the West.<\/span><\/span> But it <\/span>didn’t<\/span> seem like the West cared.<\/span><\/span> Everyone was becoming <\/span>more wealthy<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While America bought cheaply and kept its own cost of living low, China was producing the world’s goods and lifting millions of its people out of poverty.<\/span><\/span> Fast-forward a few decades, and the two giants are still closely entwined as trading partners, but the rancour between them has grown.<\/span><\/span> First under Trump and then under Biden, the US began seeing the error of being too generous to China.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Under each president, the United States has <\/span>attempted<\/span> to rectify what it perceives as a trading relationship that <\/span>favors<\/span> Beijing.<\/span><\/span> Chinese objections are different. <\/span><\/span>They are most upset about America’s position as the strongest power in the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They believe that the liberal world order has outlived its usefulness and was created by and for the United States.<\/span><\/span> It sees this crisis as a chance to change all that.<\/span><\/span> Additionally, it has been preparing. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

China portrays itself as a stable and predictable alternative to America as a global power.<\/span><\/span> The first three months of Donald Trump’s second term are only making things better.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is the pitch to other nations: Are you looking for a new partner who will provide economic stability, equality, and no awkward human rights lectures?<\/span><\/span> Contact Beijing instead of America. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are huge downsides, of course, if America is supplanted by China and the world is refashioned in its image.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ask the people of Hong Kong, whose liberties have been systematically violated, the Uyghurs of Xinjiang, who are believed to have been the victims of a genocide, or the<\/span><\/span> Taiwanese, who are currently the target of extensive bullying from Beijing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But America has been busy destroying its sales pitch too, no longer a paragon of stability, good government or rational policy making.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Trump will be fighting a foe who is prepared and determined in any prolonged trade war.<\/span><\/span> I<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

t has moved a lot of its industry to other countries to avoid tariffs and built a huge trade war chest in the form of its sovereign wealth fund,<\/span><\/span> which it used this week to keep stock markets from going down.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bad news for America and the rest of the West is that this time, China seems far more prepared and up for the fight. On the one side, a chaotic US administration veering sharply from one policy to another. On the other hand, a government that is too strong for its own good. China […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185930,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185928\/revisions\/185930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}