Beijing is going full tilt at President Donald Trump as his global tariff war has narrowed into a bilateral game of chicken between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.
The White House’s aggressive position was summarized in an all-caps post to social media stating, “DO NOT RETALIATE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED.”
But the CCP did retaliate. It responded to America’s “unilateral bullying” with an 84% tariff on all U.S. goods, declaring its intention to “fight to the end.”
It’s an economic conflict that Chinese President Xi Jinping spent years preparing for, and the question now is whether the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to diversify its markets and marshal new trading blocs will allow it to hold its breath longer than the U.S.,
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