After three months of insults, dictatorial and launching threats even to attaching foreign countries, the government of Donald Trump Suddenly some help is needed. The US president has now escalated a complete trade conflict with China, which he does not seem to know how to win.
Thus, Donald Trump’s government is in a hurry to find a way to create a pressure lever against the Chinese president Si Jingwho has no intention of receding to the intimidation of the “planet” in the “war” of duties, as CNN says in its analysis.
According to the report, “there is one thing that may work. It would utilize America’s power and global influence and could potentially put pressure on Beijing to respond to continuous US complaints about market access, intellectual property theft, industrial espionage and other issues. The problem, however, is that “this approach conflicts with the doctrine of Trump’s” first America “.”
Washington has now imposed duties 145% in Chinese productswhile Beijing responded by increasing its own to 125%. But Trump seems to realize that in order to exert substantial pressure on Si Jinping requires something more: one international alliancewith a common strategy to tackle Chinese economic expansion and intellectual property.
Speaking to Fox Business, US Finance Minister, Scott Bessedadmitted that ‘Everyone comes to the negotiating table’. Among them, Japan, India, Vietnam and South Korea. The goal, according to him, is to force China to “redefine its financial model”.
However, the pursuit of a multilateral front clashes directly with the philosophy of “America First”. Since his first term, Trump has “tired” the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a multilateral commercial form that excluded China, and canceled negotiations for agreement with the EU through TTIP.
At the same time, it has described the European Union as a “enemy in trade” and does not hesitate to attack leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney.
The Vice President Jay Di Vance He also expressed his depreciation for Europe in recent statements in Munich, while relations with Canada and Mexico – theoretical pillars of a North American front against China – remain strained, with Trump even threatening Canada’s “attachment”.
As the former Barack Obama financial adviser commented, Jason Ferman: “The US is currently an extremely unreliable ally for anyone in the world. I don’t know how to regain our credibility. ” Despite the internal pressure and fall of the stock markets, Trump insists that his tactic will “perform” and that “everyone wants to negotiate with the US”.
The White House Representative, Caroline Libithe claimed that “phones are constantly ringing with allies we need.”
“But the question remains: Will these allies respond positively, after so many faults and insults? And even if they do, will a single goal of China be able to achieve without a clear multilateral strategy? For Donald Trump, trying to form a credible international front against Beijing may prove to be the most difficult task of his second term, “concludes CNN’s analysis.