Washington (AP) – as president Donald Trump try to transform its world trade war into A face-to-face confrontation with China, He notes that he has alienated certain key American partners who could stimulate America’s position in a fight between the largest and the biggest economies in the world.
For more than a decade, American leaders, including Trump, tried to redirect the economic policy of the United States, the security strategy and the alliances to cope with the rise of China. However, almost three months after his second term, Trump’s “America First” prices and budget discounts may have provided Beijing with its clearest opening to date to escape years of American pressure.
This week, Trump has doubled China, which increases its imports to 145% amazing, when he released his prices planned for a large part of the world’s goods for 90 days against a stock market merger. But the whip of economic threats to the allies and American partners has already wreaked havoc, beyond the simple reversal of world trade.
While Trump preaches protectionism, China sends a clearly different message: its markets will only open and the world can count on China for very desired stability.
In his own struggle for survival, Beijing – the main target of Trump’s pricing anger – is to jostle for a position in the reshuffle of world trade to jump to American isolationism, exploit its shortcomings and gain influences.
“The world must embrace equity and reject hegemonism,” said the Chinese government, with a clear reference to the United States Apparent call to unity Countries confronted at high prices from the United States because its leaders have had interviews with their European Union counterparts, South Korea, Japan and more.
“As the second economy and second largest market for consumer goods, China is committed to opening up even more in the world, whatever the international situation,” the Chinese government said in a statement on American prices.
American movements cause multiple counter reactions
The blow that the Trump administration has dealt with the rest of the world with its pricing program came after the United States from international groups such as the World Health Organizationdismantled the American agency for international development and eviscerate the American agency for the world mediaLifting concerns that the United States loses friends and give in China influences on several fronts.
“We should forge stronger coalitions to compete with China. But instead, the Trump administration wishes to turn its back on the very partnerships that helped the United States to the force and security of generations,” said Illinois representative Raja Krishnamoorthhi, the best democrat of the selected committee of the Chinese Communist Party, shortly after Trump Price last week.
But the game also changes for Beijing, as evidenced by Trump’s announcement a price break for all nations except China.
“You have tried to say that the rest of the world would be close to China, when in fact, we saw the opposite effect. Karoline Leavitt said after Trump’s announcement.
However, Secretary of Commerce Howard Libenick Said that the administration is not interested in strengthening the coalition, which was a characteristic of the efforts of the Biden administration to counter China and extend the American agenda abroad.
“The answer is that the president focuses on America,” Larick told journalists. “He will try to negotiate the best offers for America with each of these large countries who call us who want to speak. He therefore does not try to build a coalition or a kind of thing like that.”
An opportunity for Beijing?
Trump’s drastic tariff plans have prompted countries to explore new approaches. Beijing was presented with an opportunity but does not take advantage of it, said Josh Lipsky, principal director of the Geoeconomics of the Atlantic Council,
“China striking the United States so hard by their own reprisals, and the two countries intensify in a trade war between the two largest economies in the world, I think they are both focused on each other and are not focusing on other countries in the world,” he said, adding that the overcapacity for the manufacture of China would be a challenge to any other market.
Gabriel Wildau, Managing Director of the Consulting Company Teneo, observed in a note that Trump’s pricing suspension “seems to be at least partially an effort to isolate China” and that China “now faces reduced prospects for assembling a large international coalition to resist American prices by forging new commercial blocks that exclude the United States”
On Wednesday, the Democrats of the Chamber said that Trump’s prices – which have since been interrupted – harm the links with Allies and critical partners of the PacificIncluding Japan, South Korea, Australia and Vietnam, moving them away from the United States but closer to China.
“We have launched a trade war against each of our partners in the Asian region,” said the Panel classification democrat Adam Smith, of Washington. And the representative Joe Courtney, D-Conn.: “This leads our allies in the wrong direction.”
Not quite, said the Mississippi representative, Trent Kelly, who defended the prices. “Taking advantage is not how we become strong leaders,” said the Republican.
Shortly after Trump announced the “reciprocal” prices on April 2, Krishnamoorthhi described the movement “complete capitulation of US world leadership which will not benefit the Chinese Communist Party”.
China sails in the new landscape
While the tariff war with the United States intensified, Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang had a telephone conversation with the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. China, said LI, was “ready to work with the European team to promote health and the constant development of China-EU relations”. Li said the two are the “most important business partners”, their savings are “highly complementary” and their “closely linked” interests.
Von der Leyen underlined the responsibility of Europe and China to support a solid reformed trade system “in response to the generalized disturbance caused by American prices”. But she also told Li that European companies needed better access to the Chinese market.
The Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao, during a video call on Thursday, told Malaysia trade chief that China was ready to work with business partners and resolve the respective concerns “in a joint effort to protect the multilateral trade system”. Malaysia holds the anase rotating chair, the regional grouping of 10 nations of Southeast Asia.
On the same day, the economic ministers of the Anase countries, in a joint declaration, expressed their concerns concerning unilateral prices. “This has caused uncertainty and will bring important challenges to businesses, in particular micro, small and medium -sized businesses as well as for the dynamics of global trade,” the statement said.
At the end of March, Wang also met its counterparts in Japan and South Korea before publishing a declaration recognizing the need for cooperation to take up the “emerging challenges” and undertake to improve cooperation on supply chains.
But within a sign of the group limits, the meeting did not produce any agreement on what to do about American prices.
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The writer Associated Press Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.
