Donald Trump’s new mandate has meant, among other things, a Representation of the commercial and technological dispute with China. The US President of the US President entered a new phase, much more aggressive and unpredictable. The main focus is on Chinabut they already suffer Mexico and Canadain an escalation that shakes the global economy.
This scenario is not surprising for China. It was expected from the moment Trump was elected president. Unlike 2017, Beijing is more prepared, While the domestic and international context is much more complex. China has just set a growth goal “around 5%” for this year, amid a lot of volatility and structural factors that have been affecting the growth rate for years, such as the accelerated population aging. So and everythingthe Chinese economy continues to grow at enviable rates, with impressive milestones of technological innovation.
In the first phone call he had this year with Trump, President Xi Jinping insisted on the Need to avoid the path of conflict and confrontation. China retains its predisposition to address bilateral differences through dialogue, although it clearly does not seem to be the path chosen by Trump. A few days after the call, Trump imposed 10% tariffs on Chinese products, which were then extended to 20%. For its part, China replied with 15% tariffs on US imports, including soybeans, chicken, pork and vaccine meat.
The inflationary impact for US consumers, the main victims of Trump, will be inevitable. Beijing also expanded the controls to do business in China of important US companies. If there is a country that size to stand in front of the “bully” Trump, it is China.
Condemns the “Cold War Mentality”
“Commercial wars cannot be won,” XI said in numerous opportunities, condemning in turn “Cold war mentality” which prevails both in the Republican and Democratic wing in the US. Trump remains clinging to its isolationist and protectionist position. In his last speech against the US Congress, he said that “tariffs are easy, fast, efficient and bring justice.” A absurd without real grip. The negative balance of your first presidency contradicts it openly. Between 2017 and 2021, the US trade deficit increased, along with other derived problems.
The spokesman for the Chinese Foreign MinistryLin JianIt was especially emphatic about China’s position against Trump’s bravuces and threats: “China is ready to face the US until the end, in a tariff war or in any other type of war.” China will seek at all costs the worst possible scenario of direct military confrontation, but will not yield to provocations.
For his part, Chinese Chancellor Wang Yi said that those who support Taiwan’s independence “they play with fire and burn “while rejected in hard terms the pretext of fentanyl traffic, used by Trump as another excuse to commercially punish China. “A lie, even when repeated a thousand times, it will not become a fact, the world will not be fooled by denigrations and slander against China,” said Wang Yi. In the previous one, China spread an official document on the issue of fentanil, in which any responsibility for the addiction epidemic that plagues the US and details all the actions carried out to regulate and control its use.
China: Opportunity of expand your influence globally
Other Complex theme for China In the current scenario are the ongoing negotiations for solve the war in Ukraine. China has reiterated the position maintained since the beginning of the war, to support the peaceful resolution of the conflict through equitable negotiations that take into account the interests of all parties. And ratified his intention to continue playing a decisive role to facilitate the dialogue between the parties and the achievement of a “lasting peace.”
The interesting thing is that, in the context of the US isolationist and protectionist, China is opened Unbeatable opportunity to expand its influence globally. While Trump eliminates the USAID program, cuts NATO financing and retires from key organisms, such as WHO and Paris treaty on climate change, China defends UN cooperation platforms and promotes their own. Such cases of the new Silk route and the Asian investment and infrastructure bank.
China will seek to revalue bilateral and multilateral relations with the countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, Based on the link through various cooperation platforms of which the country is the protagonist, such as the G20, the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (OCS), the Cooperation Forum between China and Africa (Focac) and the Chinese Forum-Celac.
In short, China It is not willing to resign the possibility of negotiation to resolve differences with the US. But neither will he give in to pressures and replicate every Trump action on his interests, especially if they affect issues of extreme sensitivity, such as Taiwan. At the same time, it will continue to promote relations with all the nations of the world based on the historical principles of peaceful coexistence and mutual benefit, pillars of its foreign policy.
In this scenario, the “Shared destination community” that Xi Jinping postulates, so disgusted from the West, it is presented as a increasingly attractive alternative to the law of the jungle that Trump proposes.
Director of the Observatory Sin-Argentine. Visitor professor at Zhejiang University (China) and regular at the Argentine Catholic University.
Source: Ambito
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