Nov 24, 2020, 08:53
(Global Times) It seems highly likely that sitting US President Donald Trump will move to inflame trade tensions with China during his final months in office, no matter whose interests he is bent on hurting.
The Trump administration is closed to declare a list of 89 Chinese aerospace companies it alleges having ties to the military, will be restricted from buying a range of US goods and technology, according to a Reuters report on Monday.
If the report is genuine, then it means the incumbent US president may be determined to dial up attacks on China over trade in an attempt to make trouble for the incoming Joe Biden administration.
To a certain extent, the move in question highlights the madness of the Trump administration in building a "political legacy," which has apparently disregarded the consequences and damages the bilateral ties would bear.
For starters, the attempt to abuse state power to suppress Chinese companies would seriously violate principles of free market competition and international economic and trade rules, disrupting the normal trade and investment cooperation between China and the US. Moreover, such an attack list, if approved by the administration, could not only hurt the interests of Chinese companies, but also the interests of many US companies that supply products to China.
In the US, there seems to be a strange custom of presidential candidates bashing China during their campaigns, and then once in office, toning down their rhetoric in order to maximize economic and trade interests with China.
But if any of the Trump administration' extreme measures, including the above list, come into effect during the remaining days of his presidency, they would nevertheless represent an act by the US government. After Trump steps down, the trade restrictions are not to be reversed shortly, and it would reduce any remaining wiggle-room Joe Biden has to keep bilateral relations on an even keel.
For the president-elect, handling US' relationship with China may be one of the biggest foreign-policy challenges. But Trump's "political legacy" may put him at a much bigger disadvantage.
While observers generally believe that Biden will adopt an approach different from Trump's to contain China's economic rise on the basis of avoiding a Cold War and decoupling, it remains to be seen how he would deal with the existing decoupling policies.
Even though the Trump administration's push for decoupling from China is undoubtedly harmful to American businesses, it may not be an easy task to dismantle them. But retaining the measures means that US-China trade and economic cooperation will wither in uncertainty, which will be detrimental to market confidence in the long run.
How to handle the legacy of Trump's China policy will therefore be a major test for the next US administration. Since closer cooperation remains the best path to mutual economic success, we hope that President Biden can bring bilateral relations back on track by properly handling what he will inherit.
Basically, it doesn't matter what NAMES CHANGES occur, - Doughnut/Donut Trump, Michael/Mike Pompeo or Joseph/Joe Biden, the US overall strategies to China won't change much; In a way we all know the truth, for a long time and in a long-term as well. The truth is, this country - the U.S.A. is an absurd and deteriorating country in many ways. 🤭
Some years back, Biden as US Vice-President visited and spoke in Dujiangyan.
Will he remember his friendship with President Xi?
Will he uphold what he had said to the classroom of children there and then?
"America wants to see China rise, grow and prosper so that China can also buy more American goods."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQaBdlu4rL4&feature=youtu.be
Well, he can start by lifting all China tech companies from the US entity and embargo lists made by the Trump administration and he can also free his countrymen and industries from being imposed import tariffs on China goods so that they can stretch their dollar,and help China grow which in turn will buy more American tech and agro-goods.
Those children have become young adults. They will applaud him again if he is man enough to do the right thing for both countries, let alone being the new US president.
Unlike Trump, Biden can leave a lasting legacy of peace and prosperity for both. The ball is now in his courtyard.
US is more like a corporation than a country.
The President is like a CEO of an US corporation, who always need to secure the backing of the major shareholders who usually operates in the form of cartel. For an US corporation's CEO to get his agenda moving, he needs to secure the backing of the major shareholders and move against them. The cartel of shareholders will sack any CEO moving against their interest. Same for the US President. He will be removed if he moves against the cartel of stakeholders' interest. Handling these stakeholders directly and have them lobby the President is another option to be considered.
I think it is to be expected that Trump because of his failed trade war with China would undertake to increase the tensions between the two countries.
He is only doing it to portray his own failure, as a leader and a person, it is being done to try and get his own back on losing the election, it is in the main an attempt to create difficulties for the incoming administration.
I am afraid we have not heard the last of Trump, I feel that after the 20th January, he will turn on his own people, and say he was betrayed by them, he will go out of his way to make it as hard as possible, for the country to move forward, in any direction.
It may be even possible that he embarks on launching a new political party, and the the result will be that the Republican Party will split in two, from moderates to hard liners.
I firmly believe that Trump is a suffering from various illnesses, from mental to syphilis from his young days,in my opinion Trump will be dead in two years,but his ideas will live on, and America will destroy itself if they go down his route.
As for the future Biden will need to reestablish trust with China, as a partner of equal standing, in all matters for the betterment of both countries
US has determined to be SECOND TO NONE economically and militarily!
If these pillars were tested, then problems and troubles loom without condition for the competitior to be subdue or even reduced to dust!
USSR paid for it!
Biden is not an idiot but he has to toe the line!
US is the single nation that wants FULL GLOBAL DOMINANCE due to the harms it has done in the past and out of fear that retribution will be in for their sins!
Community login
Add a comment