Late last night, the White House of the United States abruptly broke the trade war 'combat agreement' with China, announcing that it will continue to impose a 25% tariff on 'important industrial technology products' imported from China worth US$50 billion.
At present, Hua Chunying, spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has responded by saying: 'In international relations, every time you change your face and turn your back against you is another loss and squandering of your country’s credibility.'
However, it is worth noting that while the Chinese side responded, the US mainstream media also gave Trump's 'serious remarks' a round of stance. And it is surprising that: Their views are actually very much in line with the official position of our country. similar!
No, CNN, the most mainstream TV news network in the United States, published a professional analysis article shortly after Trump's 'returning to China' and wrote clearly in the title of the article: 'Trump's The strategy that China has changed and changed is likely to hurt the United States itself. (See below)
In this article, many US think tanks and economic and trade experts interviewed by CNN, including former President Barack Obama and the trade representatives of the George W. Bush administration, all agreed that Trump’s trade with China is fickle. This will undermine the trade negotiations between the United States and China and make it difficult for the United States to obtain the desired results from China.
A Barack Obama’s former trade negotiator further pointed out that Trump’s 'changing face' and his team’s negotiating leadership are constantly oscillating between moderates and hawkish forces, and that such swings “especially will lead to negotiations against China. Even the enthusiasm of concessions'.
The worries of the US “Wall Street Journal” are even more direct: Trump was so turmoil in China, how did US Secretary of Commerce Ross go to China for the next round of negotiations?
The Wall Street Journal also stated that their concern was not 'unfounded'. An insider of the White House told the newspaper that Trump's sudden change did suddenly increase the risk of negotiating 'stings' and even direct cancellation.
Screenshots of the original Wall Street Journal
In addition, the U.S. website “Fortune” also expressed CNN’s point of view, saying that Trump’s transformation led to a crisis of trust in the Chinese team that could have been able to “work” with the Chinese, such as the financial crisis. Minister Mukuchin and Secretary of Commerce Ross, because the agreements reached between the two people and China have now been destroyed by Trump....
The expert commentator on the site also stated that even if President Trump himself wants to negotiate with China next time, the Chinese can still trust this one to say 'China is killing the United States', and later said 'We have a very good relationship with China. What's the guy?
'If we America wants to convey our appeal to China, our voices at least have to be consistent and unified, rather than make China feel extremely confused,' said the American expert.
Finally, including the United States' Bloomberg News and the well-known US cyber-political magazine 'POLITICO' are struggling to change Trump's 'downgrading', saying that he does not “fell off” with China, but just want to 'make a look' before the negotiation. It seems that they are very "hard-lined" in the negotiations, rather than having been "soft". Among them, 'POLITICO' magazine also said that this statement is also from the White House an 'internal person'.
However, the online magazine also interviewed an expert from the Cato Institute, a well-known American think tank, in his report and asked him to talk about Trump’s suddenness to take tariffs on China. This has obviously been Trump’s U.S. experts, who have been irritated by repeated breaches of contract on a series of international issues, responded by saying:
This 'schizophrenic' attitude demonstrated by Trump's trade policy toward China is a scourge to the global economy.'
The picture shows a screenshot of 'POLITICO' magazine