In the last few weeks, the Trump administration has unleashed what may be the initial salvo in a mutually destructive trade war with China.
In succession, it self-initiated a trade case for the first time in over 25 years to fight cheap Chinese aluminum imports, very publicly rejected China’s position that it should lawfully be considered a “market economy” in such cases, and apparently suspended the main official U.S.-China dialogue to bolster economic ties. Now its new national security strategy identifies China as a “strategic competitor” and decries it and Russia as “revisionist powers.”
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