A Trade war against China was one of Donald Trump’s efforts to define his political and deal making might…
It has failed ….
Things are so bad for him he is now trying to blame the virus on them….
Trump was on the precipice of declaring victory with his China strategy as recently as January, when he hosted senior Communist Party officials in a White House celebration of a modest trade pact. But the president has since shifted to attacking Beijing as an even greater danger than he suggested in 2016, when he said China had been allowed “to rape our country” on the march to becoming an economic powerhouse.
In a recorded address to the U.N. General Assembly in September from the White House’s Diplomatic Reception Room, Trump declared that, 75 years after World War II, fellow nations were again waging a “great global struggle,” this time against “the invisible enemy — the China virus.”
“We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world: China,” he said.
Yet Trump’s renewed tough talk has served as a tacit acknowledgment that his vow to bring China to heel has failed…
image…Andy Wong/AP
Update on the Failed Trump China foreign policy…..
Paul Krugman
@paulkrugman
Not at the top of Trump’s awfulness, but his diplomacy was pathetically ineffective; every country he dealt with took him to the cleaners.
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Peterson Institute
@PIIE.
@ChadBown finds China bought none of the extra $200 billion of US exports in Trump’s “historical” Phase One trade deal.
Learn why here: https://piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/china-bought-none-extra-200-billion-us-exports-trumps-trade?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=bown-phase-one-end&utm_content=graphic…