In the past two days, Trump has been a little embarrassed by China.In order to respond, he was painfully determined that he would rather give up the $50 billion big business than let China break the back.
The reason why Trump is a little confused by China is that China has adopted a multi-pronged approach to the United States in recent days:
1. First of all, China's Ministry of Commerce took action to impose stricter control on rare earths, even controlling the export of rare earth technology.
The Chinese Ministry of Transportation has imposed an additional fee on all U.S. ships stationing in Chinese ports.
For these practices of China, Trump shouted, "This is unbelievable!" Obviously, he didn't expect China to do this. He thought China had already deliberately yielded. At this point, there is no room for Trump to feel slowly. Therefore, he made up his mind: he would rather let Boeing lose a big order of 50 billion yuan than prevent China from cutting off the United States in terms of rare earths.
A few hours ago, in an interview at the White House, Trump publicly said: "We have many things we can use to deal with China. One of them is aircraft. Boeing aircraft bought by China requires parts!" Boy, this is implying that we will stop supplying Boeing parts in an attempt to choke China's "neck".
But the problem is that the most tense now is not China, but Boeing. Earlier in August this year, Western media such as Bloomberg said that China is negotiating a big deal with Boeing, involving 500 Boeing aircraft, if this deal is done, can directly rescue Boeing from the recent years of crisis completely.
In September, U.S. Ambassador to China Pound Dewei (Chinese name) also revealed this information very excitedly. He said: The order between China and Boeing has entered the final discussion stage. The implication is that it can be achieved immediately.
The 500 Boeing aircraft, the total price of more than 50 billion large projects, Trump could not know about this. And he threatened not to supply China aircraft parts in this blunt eye, which will undoubtedly completely shake up the business. China-related airlines can not be stupid to take this risk, knowing that in the future will not get the parts, but also send money to Boeing. So said, Trump's threat came out, Boeing's senior estimates could not cry out. Next, see how these elites of Boeing pressure Trump, let him take back what he said.
Of course, Trump has not taken care of Boeing right now, and he is most nervous about the rare earth issue. The rare earth issue can still be solved in the future, but if the rare earth issue does not stop China this time, then the United States will be in trouble in the future. Public information shows that just a F-35 fighter aircraft will need to consume 400 kilograms of rare earth (need for purification). For Trump, Boeing’s business can’t be done, but the U.S. military aircraft can’t be unable to take off.
In summary, the trade war between China and the United States has undoubtedly escalated, and the next step is to see how the two countries continue to play. Chinese officials can’t surrender, and the Trump administration is still in shutdown, and the wages of 1.3 million U.S. soldiers are in trouble. In this case, it’s hard to imagine what Trump’s “crazy” move would be.