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Smart Money says that Donald Trump’s advantage is that you know where he is. That may be true in your love for the route and hate to immigrants and commercial deficits. However, when it comes to Trump and China, economists should leave their warning about “all things in equality.”
Nothing to do with Trump’s policy in China is predictable, much less the same. Do you care about Taiwan? Let’s launch a coin. Do you want the United States to be decoupled from China? Turn the roulette wheel. It is unlikely that Trump’s alleged phone call with the president of China, Xi Jinping, lifts our confusion. China is the best Trump riddle.
You can barely blame the Chinese for being cautious to talk to him. At the end of April, Trump told Time that Xi had called him: “And I don’t think it’s a sign of weakness in his name.” No call had been made.
Therefore, any Trump reading of XI’s psychology must be made to a hallucination in the style of AI. China’s Ministry of Foreign Relations accused Trump of “deceiving the public”, which according to today’s standards was educated. But we must not confuse XI’s avoidance to the “Wolf Warrior” invective for Trump’s submission in the War of Rates. China is not the United Kingdom. The Chinese are as confused about the end of Trump’s game as everyone else.
If XI finally accepts a call with Triumph -The first since it was inaugurated: the Duel readings of Washington-Beijing would make an interesting reading. It is almost impossible to imagine that XI agrees to sit for one of the special reality TV TV office specials. That Crashot has had great impacts on the inconvenience in Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, and has proven useful for Mark Carney of Canada and possibly for Keir Starmer of Great Britain. XI will never agree to run that glove. Nor should it.
He China-ee. UU. The component of the commercial war outside Trump is in its own category. The rest are based on exaggerated or imaginary complaints. The EU is no more likely to admit that its value added tax is a commercial barrier that Canada will admit export fentanil to the United States. Both are fictions. On the contrary, China’s double -use technological ambitions pose a great geopolitical enigma to America. The way Trump addresses those, whether it reduces the restrictions of “small patio, high” by Joe Biden to the semiconductor trade with China, is important for everyone.
However, we have little track of how much they refer to Trump. The leverage goes both ways. The United States could continue to restrict China’s access to the technology and chips of AI. But Trump has already relaxed some of this. The executive director of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, is an influential defender with Trump for greater relaxation. On the other hand, China has an absolute domain in the supply of rare earths of the world that is fundamental for a wide range of US production. Trump states that China has breached last month’s agreement to resume its rare earth exports to the United States. In that pause, Trump reduced his 145 percent tariff on China to 30 percent.
Will it return to rates again if China does not raise its embargo? There is no way to know. Once upon a time, Trump thought the Tiktok, owned by China, was a threat to the national security of the United States. Now keep the application of social networks alive, with a possible vision of a forced sale to a Trump’s commercial partner, against the wishes of Congress and the Supreme Court. As Tiktok says, Trump’s policy could also be in China.
The same confusion reigns about Taiwan. Many voices in the Trump administration urge a tough line defense of Taiwan. Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of Defense, said China’s threat represents last week [to Taiwan] It is real. And it could be imminent. “But few in the United States or in the world they take Hegseth seriously.
Trump’s uncertainty in China is also a global economy tax. Emmanuel Macron de France spoke for many last week when he said: “We do not want to receive daily instructions of what is allowed, which is not allowed and how our life will change due to the decision of a single person.”
That was a way of putting it. Here is another of Jamie Dimon from JPMorgan: “China is a potential adversary … but what really worries me is.” Dimon was discreet not to name the president of the United States. In the enigma raised by Trump’s erratism, China and the rest of the world are like one.