When China and the U.S. fight, who wins?

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In bid to recognize Trump’s tariffs we instrumentality a look astatine their superior target, China, and analyse wherefore galore successful that state presumption this arsenic a historical opportunity, and Donald Trump arsenic a ‘revolutionary’ figure.

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· Posted: Apr 16, 2025 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping shingle hands successful Beijing, China, November 9, 2017. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

Front Burner41:19When China and the U.S. fight, who wins?

A large portion of Donald Trump's planetary tariff authorities targets the Chinese system successful a bid, helium says, to unit the state into a woody favorable to the United States. Despite this, officials successful China person been undeterred — claiming that tariffs volition wounded Americans much than Chinese, and drafting examination betwixt the actions of Donald Trump and Mao Zedong's 'cultural revolution.'

Chinese officials person besides responded to Donald Trump's tariff programme saying, successful part: "if warfare is what the U.S. wants, beryllium it a tariff war, a commercialized warfare oregon immoderate different benignant of war, we're acceptable to combat till the end." 

David Rennie is simply a columnist with The Economist, wherever helium formerly worked arsenic the magazine's Beijing correspondent. He joins america for a speech astir the China-U.S. relationship, wherefore officials successful China presumption Trump arsenic a 'revolutionary' figure, and this arsenic a 1 of the large moments of accidental successful China's modern history.

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