On October 14, local time, U.S. Treasury Secretary Basent made a shocking remark. When talking about the Sino-US trade war, he actually said: "The United States will not be intimidated!" Boy, as a super empire, they are actually afraid that others will think they are intimidated. Besent's words were really shocking.
At the same time, Besent also brought out more than 300,000 China students. He pointed out: "There are only 800 American students in China, but there are more than 300,000 China students in the United States. This is unbalanced!" The implication is that it does not rule out that the United States will order the expulsion of all China students at any time.
For two major sovereign powers, expelling international students is even more serious than expelling diplomats. If things really develop to this point, Sino-US relations will be beyond repair in the short term. The Trump administration used this as a threat to get China to agree to two demands from the United States:
The first requirement is to let China relax its control over rare earths. Last week, China's Ministry of Commerce issued several announcements in succession to upgrade and control more key rare earth materials and even control the export of rare earth related technologies. This means that even if the United States were to develop the rare earth industry chain itself, it would be unrealistic.
The second requirement is to let China buy a large number of American soybeans. On October 14th, Trump also mentioned this matter again on his personal social media. He said, "It is intentional for China not to buy American soybeans. This is an act of deliberately hurting American farmers and an economic hostile act. In retaliation, the United States may consider not buying Chinese edible oil anymore!" It seems that the problem of unsalable soybeans has become a thorn in Trump's heart, and he is using various methods to ask China to buy quickly and more.
But the problem is that China will not agree to either of the above two requests. The rare earth issue is related to China's national strategic security, and we cannot compromise. As for the soybean issue, as Xie Feng, China's ambassador to the United States, said: If the United States wants to change its trade gap with China, it must sell what China needs. It hopes that China will buy things such as American beef and soybeans every day. If you don't sell the advanced chips that China needs, how can you solve the problem? What's more, the tax on soybeans in the United States is now high, and it is cheaper for China to buy them from Brazil. Why should we buy expensive ones instead of cheap ones?
Now that things have come to this point, how should we solve the problem of more than 300,000 China students? What if Trump does order an expulsion? Don't worry too much about this:
For one thing, Trump cannot just cover the sky in the United States. Those universities in the United States are quite stubborn. Many universities are dissatisfied with Trump, and they will all stand up to confront Trump. In addition, the U.S. government is still in a shutdown period, various economic problems have already emerged, and U.S. stocks have already experienced a "Black Friday." If Trump adds more at this time, U.S. stocks will really fall to the bottom.
Second, of course, the Chinese government will not do nothing. Since China dares to reach this point with the United States, there must still be a lot of bargaining chips that have not been used. You can rest assured of this.
In summary, more and more facts are telling us that Trump has been poor, and then we will see what he has to do.