China is armed and ready for trade war 2.0 with Trump

China is armed and ready for trade war 2.0 with Donald Trump
In the summer of 2018, when former President Donald Trump launched a trade war with Beijing, the Chinese economy was gaining on the United States, and popular opinion suggested it could soon become the world’s largest.
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Donald Trump's Trade War Won't Hurt China | Opinion
By empowering our own industries to compete freely and fairly on the global stage, we cultivate resilience and economic freedom—without the need for isolationist tariffs that ultimately hurt American consumers and businesses more than they hurt China.
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The Chinese economy is more dependent on exports, making tariffs more potent, yet it’s less reliant on American markets and increasingly bent on self-sufficiency.
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The layman’s narrative of the 1930s is that America’s Smoot-Hawley tariffs set off a beggar-thy-neighbour spiral and caused the Great Depression. It is not true.
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Is China Ready for the Trump Trade War 2.0?
If China is able to seize the opportunity to revitalize its domestic economy and invigorate the multilateral system, Trump’s trade war 2.0 could end up a strategic gift to Beijing.
China says it is willing to talk with US to push forward bilateral trade
China is willing to conduct active dialogue with the United States based on the principles of mutual respect and promote the development of bilateral economic and trade relations, vice commerce minister Wang Shouwen said on Friday.
China ‘willing’ to engage in Trump dialogue as it backs exporters
China is willing to engage in positive dialogue with the US,” Wang Shouwen, international trade representative and vice-minister of commerce, said when asked about the expected Trump tariffs. “At the same time,
China urges ‘positive dialogue’ with US as Trump’s threatened tariffs loom large
Deputy commerce minister also warns of tariffs’ adverse effects on the country imposing them, while pointing to China’s economic ‘resilience’ in face of external shocks.
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Agriculture, Kansas’ biggest export sector, would bear the brunt of the risk if the U.S. and China renewed trade hostilities.
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