Trump’s tariff war with Beijing is part of a multi-prong strategy to secure America from a much broader threat

Fox News - 10/04
Trump’s China strategy centers on tying up Beijing with tariff war and eliminating decades-long reliance on China for critical industries and minerals, thus avoiding a kinetic war over Taiwan.
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President Donald Trump is in an all-out trade war with China, whose leaders accused the U.S. of "economic bullying" and declared Beijing’s readiness to "fight to the end" in "any type" of war" with America. Predictably, pundits, experts of all stripes and assorted members of the Washington commentariat are viciously attacking the president, predicting global economic Armageddon.

What they don’t understand is that the tariff war is part of Trump’s sophisticated multipronged strategy aimed at reducing a much bigger threat that China poses to America. To execute this strategy, the self-proclaimed master of the art of the deal will be personally involved in trade negotiations, according to Trump’s right-hand man on economic deals, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.

Trump is fighting a non-kinetic war with Beijing to avoid a kinetic one, which would surely be catastrophic for both the U.S. and China. Here’s what Trump understands about China and his rationale for the "strategic decoupling" doctrine Team Trump developed to tame our most dangerous adversary.

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