China launched sanctions, Trump rapidly collapsed, demanded the EU to increase tariffs on China at 100%, and on the evening of September 13, 2025, U.S. President Trump publicly rumored in real social media about Europe, NATO and the G7 group, to join the United States to impose tariffs on China.

¡°You countries, if you want to have a good relationship with the United States, you must listen to me now, first to increase tariffs on China at 100%, then the United States to follow up, together to lay on China, and finally win this tariff war.

Customs or rotating.

Among such large-scale opponents, Trump's tariff weapons are used, and the effect is more like throwing out and possibly crushing back its own brain door, which brings a strike, never one-way.

On the one hand, the Trump administration laid out a set of plans to bring the trade friction to the end, its repeated and unconventional "face-changing" style, so that the outside world has long been strange. he can just start a tariff war, the back foot is on the negotiating table to seek "compromise", while the small moves in the back are never stopped.

However, the cost of this strategy, which has been rated as ¡°a hundred injured, a thousand self-injured¡± by the outside world, is obvious.A substantial increase in tariffs will eventually turn into rising prices in the United States and a real cost of living pressure on the people, which undoubtedly exposes the nature of its ¡°paper tiger.¡±

On the other hand, China did not choose to be passively beaten, but with a set of precise and powerful combined fists. this time sanctioned Huntington Ingels Industrial Company, is not a small role, it is the life of the U.S. Navy, responsible for building nuclear submarines, destroyers, and even Ford-class aircraft carrier.

Fighting this enterprise is equivalent to directly seizing the "big artery" of the U.S. military supply chain. In addition, the "Flat Earth management company" on the list has conspired with Taiwan's stubborn elements to provide weapons support. Several other companies are also deeply engaged in communications, intelligence and cybersecurity fields. China's counter-action, obviously, has been well thought out, and the tricks are on the seven inches.

Trump¡¯s own behavior demonstrates precisely the limitations of the weapons. That extreme pressure on the side, while trying to find a way out after suffering from phobia, exposes the huge uncertainty and high political and economic costs of tariff weapons in real warfare.

Failure to obey punishment.

One of the characteristics of Trump's gameplay is to play a new trick on the tariff issue, extending it from a bilateral confrontation tool to a "loyalty test paper" to allies. He tried to transform the originally loose alliance system into a hierarchical structure that more obeyed his orders by forcing allies to choose sides.

The operation was simply a naked coercion.Trump sent a letter of ¡°ultimate communiqu顱 directly to NATO allies, which was simple and rough: asking all member states to collectively impose tariffs of 50% to 100% on Chinese goods, and immediately stop buying Russian oil and jointly impose sanctions on Russia.

The real intention behind this is not to see the proposal fully implemented. Trump is clear in his mind that a country like Turkey can¡¯t do it at all. His goal is to carry out a ¡°mental pressure¡± to see who is the real ¡°your own person¡±, who is shaking out. It is more like a loyalty test, for diplomatic failures that may arise in the future to look for ¡°the sheep of sin¡±.

Some countries have chosen to follow up, such as the EU is considering tariffs on China¡¯s steel products and has launched a counter-subsidy investigation. Mexico also plans to impose tariffs of 10% to 50% on more than 1,400 Chinese goods.

But this follow-up is costly.In the first half of this year, the EU saw its first negative growth in trade with China due to similar measures taken earlier, and its own industry was severely reaffected.Member of the European Parliament, Kolakushic, even expressed sad regrets, criticising Europe¡¯s gradual transformation into ¡°the United States without the right to speak.¡±

Naturally, this coercion also aroused strong resistance within allies. Some European think tanks publicly warned that the crazy proposal of increasing taxes on China by 100% will directly lead to the doubling of commodity prices and detonating uncontrollable inflation. In Canada, more than 60% of the people have made it clear that they hope that the government can reduce tariffs on China rather than increase them.

These clear signals show that the kind of "leadership" built through pressure and coercion is rapidly eroding the foundation of trust of the United States in the global alliance system. True leadership comes from winning trust, not delivering pressure.

Whose Anxiety Whose Card

When the Diplomatic Bureau of Chess is stuck or domestic contradictions begin to escalate, the bullshit of tariffs becomes the most convenient card for the Trump administration to shift the focus and create "the sheep of sin."This operation, rather than showing power, is a deep sense of anxiety and speculative exposure behind its policies.

A typical example is the statement surrounding the Russia-Ukraine conflict. When the negotiations reached a deadlock, the Trump administration's thinking didn't focus on how to solve the problem itself, but suddenly changed the subject and threw out an amazing argument: as long as China stopped supporting Russia, the war could end the next day.

His special envoy Keith Kellogg also publicly promoted this view in Kiev, and on this basis asked NATO allies to cooperate in pressure on China. This is a very typical narrative approach, the essence of which is to set up a perfect "backpotman" in advance for its possible diplomatic failure.

This kind of swing and speculation is vividly manifested in the attitude towards India. The United States was furious over India's purchase of Russian oil and imposed tariffs of up to 50% on it. But it didn't take long for Trump to change the subject again, calling Prime Minister Modi a "good friend" and frequently showing kindness.

This 180-degree U-turn reflects that its foreign policy decision-making is not based on any stable principle, but completely serves short-term political needs. Trump himself admits that he has "little patience" with Putin, but his behavior shows that what he really loses patience may be his allies or even himself who has nothing to do.

conclusion

Trump¡¯s ¡°tariff diplomacy¡± is essentially a seemingly tough, rather fragile strategy. It has limited killing power on powerful opponents, and is accompanied by enormous counter-effects. Its coercion on allies is constantly consuming American leadership capital, and as a psychological and political tool, it exposes more to users¡¯ own anxiety and powerlessness than to real power.

This approach of creating antagonisms and limiting pressure is in sharp contrast to China¡¯s repeatedly reiterated position of foreign minister Wang Yi in Europe. Wang Yi stressed that war cannot solve any problem, unilateral sanctions will only make the problem more complicated. China is always persuading to promote peace, not to participate in or plan any war. Behind this, there is a fundamental conflict of two completely different world views: on the one hand, zero-sum game, power politics, and on the other hand, multipolar co-government, dialogue and cooperation.

In the end, this dependence on pressures rather than the means of gaining trust can¡¯t build a stable international relationship at all. As Europe¡¯s hesitation and the true will of the Canadian people reveal, the unilateral ¡°tariff barrel¡± is destined to become increasingly marketless in a world that seeks stability and common development.

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