CNN - A US-China trade war could be catastrophic. What is Trump’s endgame strategy? The fast-worsening trade war between the United States and China – the planet’s premier geopolitical powers, whose economies are intricately entwined – threatens to wreak severe damage on both nations and will send shockwaves worldwide. Since President Donald Trump launched this potential cataclysm, it’s fair to ask whether he’s got a strategy and how he sees the endgame. As usual, Trump is improvising. His stunning escalation in tariffs on China this week didn’t follow any meaningful formula. The risks are massive. But coercing China could backfire, given its vast economic weight and its sensitivity to slights from Western powers it views as trying to thwart its rise. China’s population is unlikely to respond well to threats after years of nationalistic policymaking and propaganda aimed at superseding the United States. “We’re now in a huge (trade) war with China, and the tariffs that have been imposed on China are what I would call prohibitive,” former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Zain Asher and Bianna Golodryga on CNN International Thursday. “They’re going to result in massive impacts on the United States and the global economy. No one knows where these policies are headed.” America turns to the allies it spurned The magnitude of the potential conflict has US officials casting around for a strategy. There is one approach that would leverage American strength and global power and that might have a chance of building pressure on Beijing to act on consistent US complaints about market access, theft of intellectual property, industrial espionage and other issues. Kevin Hassett, the head of Trump’s National Economic Council, said Thursday that Trump’s Cabinet meeting would discuss whether the US should make trade deals with allies to create a united anti-China front. America’s power has long been multiplied by its alliance system – a key advantage that China does not enjoy. A common approach between the trading nations of North America and Europe would be hard for Beijing to ignore. Yet everything that Trump has done since he arrived back in the Oval Office has been designed to destroy this group of like-minded democracies. Several times this week he dissed the European Union. “The EU has been very tough over the years … I always say it was formed to really do damage to the United States in trade.” In fact, US policy for years – despite many trade disputes – has been to support a strong EU as a American-allied bloc of prosperity, unity and democracy in a continent that was the epicenter of the bloodiest wars in human history." Trump’s provocations in the Western hemisphere could also frustrate any joint anti-China front. A unified North American trading powerhouse has long been seen as a potential bulwark against China. But Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex Canada and has targeted Mexico with some of his toughest tariffs. For months, Canadian politicians like Ontario Premier Doug Ford have been pleading with Trump to link up with Canada to combat China. “We always believe in the Am-Can fortress, working together to make the two strongest nations in the world. That’s what we want to do,” Ford told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday. But after weeks of attacks on Canada’s sovereignty, Trump has made it almost impossible for its leaders to cooperate with the US – especially during the current general election campaign north of the border. New Prime Minister Mark Carney has warned that his country’s traditional relationship with Washington is over. The idea of building an anti-China cooperative of US-allied powers isn’t new. In fact, Trump has already shut it down once. On his first day in office in his first term in 2017, Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a group of 12 nations including allies like Mexico, Canada, Japan, and Australia, as well as Japan. The president also ended talks with Europe on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership that would have linked the world’s two largest markets. It may already be too late to change course. “The US right now is an incredibly unreliable partner to anyone in the world, and I don’t know how we are going to get back to being reliable,” Jason Furman, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration, told Isa Soares on CNN International on Thursday. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/11/politics/trump-china-trade-war-tariffs-strategy/index.html
And Trumps entirely unwarranted attacks on our allies in the EU are simply totally unfounded in the first place to boot: The European Union and the United States have the world's largest bilateral trade and investment relationship, and enjoy the most integrated economic relationship in the world. Taking goods, services and investment into account, the EU and the US are each other’s largest trading partners by far. Millions of jobs in the United States are related to EU-US trade and investment. The European Union is a reliable source of critical supplies to the United States, including medicinal ingredients and pharmaceutical products, advanced machinery and equipment, and aerospace parts and components. At the same time, the European Union is the largest buyer of the United States’ natural gas and oil, which is an important element for ensuring transatlantic energy security and to allow a shared strong response to Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. Trade picture The transatlantic trade relationship is the most important commercial relationship in the world. EU-US trade in goods and services reached an impressive €1.6 trillion in 2023. This means that every day, €4.4 billion worth of goods and services cross the Atlantic between the EU and the US. EU-US goods and services trade is balanced: the difference between EU exports to the US and US exports to the EU stood at €48 billion in 2023; the equivalent of just 3% of the total trade between the EU and the US. The EU and the US are also major investment partners. EU and US firms have €5.3 trillion worth of investment in each other’s markets (2022 data). US exports of goods and services to the EU support 2.3 million jobs in the US, and EU firms’ investments in the US employ 3.4 million people. https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/e...region/countries-and-regions/united-states_en Attacking allies is simply NEVER a clever idea. You plain never know when you'll need em. Simple as that.
CNN - A US-China trade war could be catastrophic. What is Trump’s endgame strategy? Could be catastrophic??????? Its already catastrophic!!!!!!!!!! He just destroyed every countries economy including ours!! World wide recessions have just begun!!! Risk has just been unleashed in the credit and Derivatives market. Once those are fucked the entire world goes into financial turmoil. And just to think 1 single person created this entire downfall of all economies.
Against China, Trump now turns to former US allies he alienated -Like how China is trying to ally with India that it's attacked just several years ago? https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202504/11/WS67f9153da3104d9fd381edac.html
Just put whatever you want to quote in quotes and just post the link of the article there. If it's good, people will read it. If it's garbage, then even if you post the whole shit there, people are still not going to read it even if you put it in boldfaced font.
-Like how China is trying to ally with India that it's attacked just several years ago? Haha yep kinda eh.
a few vocal radical dip shits all post here around the clock and mods put up with the shit to keep the post count up i guess. i would much rather this forum go to a paid format, so the garbage post go to zero and the content quality goes way up. whatever
They are paid Chinese propagandist to be here to spew garbage. Changing this forum to paid format won't deter them. All it will drive away would be the genuine new traders who are here looking for trading tips and information and etc. Why punish them and Barron just to drive off some Chinese trolls? Trust me once this trade war is subsided a bit, these trolls will disappear instantly. We would've changed into paid format for nothing.