The facts of the last few days tell us that the US-China trade war has escalated, and as China expected, Trump had to give up the car guard.
The reason why the Sino-US trade war has escalated is that China's Ministry of Commerce has made continuous moves a few days ago to impose stricter control on rare earths. Trump, on the other hand, became angry from embarrassment and directly announced: "From November 1st, a 100% tariff will be imposed on China". Trump thinks that this will make China soft. However, it has been 24 hours since he announced the news of the tax increase, and China still has no intention of taking any step back. In this case, Trump made the move of abandoning the car to protect the handsome.
For Trump: When the trade war no longer threatens China, the global deterrence of the US military has become his last resort. Therefore, his top priority now is to stabilize the US military and not allow chaos within the US military.
So, on October 11, local time, that is, a few hours ago, Trump issued a presidential order to U.S. Defense Secretary Hergezes: “In any case, we must ensure that U.S. soldiers get their salaries as scheduled on October 15!”
First, because of the government shutdown, far more than 1.3 million U.S. soldiers are now unable to pay wages, and all departments of the government are unable to pay.
Secondly, Trump handed the task of paying wages to the U.S. military to Haggis, but the problem is that Haggis had no other option. A Pentagon official revealed that Haggis could not do it, and he would have to use the Pentagon’s $8 billion emergency backup for research and testing to complete the payments. This money is the Pentagon’s last home and their emergency reserve for war.
It's okay if other departments can't keep it, but the Pentagon has to keep it anyway. This is Trump's current strategy. At the same time, Lucky, a US military expert and founder of Anduril Industries, an American artificial intelligence military enterprise, saw a side that made the top American leaders more worried.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Lucky's views on the current situation of China and the United States are:
1. He believes that the current game between China and the United States has been brewing for nearly 50 years, and China has been preparing for this for 50 years.
2. He believes that the United States needs its own rare earths, needs to revitalize its own industrial system, and needs to be prepared to fight a "protracted trade war" with China.
Lucky's words were recognized by many Pentagon officials. But the problem is that China is the ancestor of a protracted war. Moreover, at present, the Trump administration does not have the conditions for a lasting game with China:
On the one hand, it is Trump’s plan to boost manufacturing that has not achieved the expected results at all. Now the government is in a shutdown, let alone the manufacturing industry.
On the other hand, fighting a lasting war requires unprecedented unity of the people. But the immigration strategy that Trump has pushed since his arrival, the big and U.S. Bill, etc., have plunged American society into a bigger crack. The government stops today, and is ultimately the result of the intensification of the struggle between the Democrats and the Republicans.
To sum up, without industrial support and complete disunity of the people, how can the United States engage in a lasting game with China? At present, Trump has abandoned his residence to be handsome, but what else can he sacrifice next? For more information, let's keep an eye on it.