Since Trump suffered three strikes in a row on October 10, angry tweets have denounced China.
It can be seen that at the time, Trump had been angry and lost his mind, and the whole person was completely influenced by emotions, dragging the whole world together to fear and fear.
In addition to the loss of the Nobel Prize, China's two countermeasures in rare land and against U.S. ships have a huge impact on U.S. military industry and high-end manufacturing.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Industry and Security (BIS) issued new regulations in late September, introducing the “50% rule” under the Export Control Regulations, through the “regulatory transparency”, will extend to 23 companies subject to sanctions, to thousands of Chinese enterprises.
In addition to the U.S. determination to implement sanctions on Chinese ships, charging so-called "port special service fees". since the U.S. does not want to talk, or wants to win, then China is naturally accompanied by the end.
From October 9 to 10, China announced two consecutive countermeasures.
The first is to further strengthen controls on rare earth exports, and extend the scope of control to Chinese rare earth technology, equipment, and even magnetic materials that have been processed in China.
The second is to treat ships that are built, operated, owned, or even owned by the United States and flying the U.S. flag "equally" and charge special port service fees.
But in the end, it is the evil cause planted by the United States itself, if it is not the United States alone, completely ignoring the "olive branches" thrown by China, how will the United States fall to this point.
In fact, this is said to be against common sense, according to the current Sino-U.S. situation, the United States has not accounted for half the advantage in the trade war.
Trump's proposal to meet with Chinese leaders at the Asia-Pacific Summit is obviously a kind of "show of kindness", so he suddenly turned his face.
In this regard, Hong Kong media reports seem to give a reasonable explanation.
According to the Hong Kong media "Hong Kong 01", after China countered the United States, Trump said that he was completely unaware of the "50% rule" sanctions introduced by the U.S. Department of Commerce. This directly led Trump to be furious with Commerce Minister Lutnick after learning that China had taken counter-measures.
The article mentioned that Trump was very surprised and puzzled after learning that China announced that it would further strengthen the export control of rare earths, and quickly convened a group of cronies to hold a meeting.
Trump outraged Commerce Secretary Lutnik, saying, “You may have done stupid things and ruined things with China.”
And after Lutnik left the conference room, he told U.S. Vice President Wences and U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent that he (Lutnik) would no longer be delusional about controlling our decisions.
This could explain why Trump would be surprised at China’s strengthening of rare-earth countermeasures, and rushed to the fire after learning about China’s countermeasures, calling for a “100% tariff” on China.
After all, according to Trump, these things were all done by Lutnik's "independence" and did not know about Trump. That in Trump's perspective, is that China first violated the "covenant" reached in Madrid.
I'm afraid Lutnik is also very "wronged". It is estimated that from his perspective, he is just continuing Trump's consistent style and ignoring the possibility that "China will strongly fight back".
The resulting “misjudgment” did not expect to have such serious consequences for the United States.
China’s countermeasures are unbearable for Trump.
Countering U.S. shipbuilding and shipping businesses force the United States to negotiate, or sit down and negotiate, or the U.S. shipbuilding industry has no hope of revival, and even U.S. shipping capital must withdraw from the global shipping business.
Strengthening controls on rare-earth exports means not only the aggravation of the trouble of the U.S. military industry, but also a heavy hammer for the U.S. economy.
China clearly stipulates that any export of processed rare earth materials flowing through China needs to obtain a Chinese permission. This means that not only the domestic high-tech industry in the United States has suffered heavy losses, but even top semiconductor companies such as Samsung and TSMC have to look at China's face.
The Observer Network quoted Fortune magazine as saying that U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 is almost entirely dependent on data centers and information technology.
This means that China’s rare-earth controls, to some extent, have removed the “foundations” of today’s U.S. economy, which for the U.S. bearing the burden of the state debt, is unlikely to be exacerbated.
However, from another perspective, this is not Trump’s “self-sufficiency.”
After all, people are selected by Trump themselves, and they are unaware of this, probably because of the Trump team, someone wants to use this to "draw hands" on Lutnik.
On the one hand, the Trump team didn't agree, and it didn't take a day or two. Before, Musk made drastic "reforms" to make Trump "cut off his robes" with him. Later, Bescent was at the banquet, and he wanted to fight with Pulte. Staged "Mortal Kombat".
On the other hand, Trump has completely ignored his capabilities in the election of officials, which was evident in the appointment of Kane as president of the United States Army Federation.
The former chairman Brown single-handedly managed the reform of the US military, far surpassing the "whiteboard" Kane in terms of overall situation and military literacy. But for Trump, ability is not important, but "attitude" is important. To put it bluntly, Trump only wants "obedient" officials and makes Trump's "voice" "unique".
Is Lutnik obedient? Of course, after all, Trump's attitude towards China has always been "indifferent", and Lutnik implemented this well. Now that the consequences are apparent, Trump needs someone to take the blame for him.
On the other hand, the "50% rule" is unconvincing to say that Trump is completely unaware of it. After all, at the critical node on the eve of the meeting between Chinese and American leaders, Lutnick made such an act of increasing sanctions against China without Trump's nod, does Lutnick dare?
To this day, the tree has become a ship, whether Trump is really ignorant or looking for a pretext.Now the China-U.S. "trade war" has escalated, Trump is still thinking about how to solve it, after all, the moment is not China, but the United States.
Of course, China's attitude hasn't changed. If you want to talk, Trump will correct your attitude and sit down to solve things well. If you want to fight, China now holds multiple trump cards, and it is not afraid at all. Not to mention imposing 100% tariffs, that is, imposing 500% or 1000% tariffs, and China will accompany it to the end.