In the past 24 hours, the attitude within the United States towards China has once again changed. On October 14, local time in the United States, U.S. Treasury Secretary Basent also told the media,"The situation where the United States imposes a 100% tariff on China may not happen. The two sides may meet in South Korea and engage in a new round of negotiations to avoid a heated trade war." Trump also softened his tone on the 14th and told the media that "China will have no problems, the United States can solve it."
However, the time came to October 15 local time in the United States, and the United States and the West collectively issued a very tough attitude towards us. On October 15, U.S. Treasury Secretary Basent and U.S. Trade Representative Greer issued a joint statement claiming that "China's new rare earth export flow control measures undermine and deny the agreements reached between the United States and China in the past six months. If China continues to implement this upgraded new system, the U.S. government is prepared to take strong action." Besent further disclosed that "85 senators have authorized President Trump to impose a 500% tariff on China's purchase of Russian oil."
Obviously, Trump is planning to show us a showdown and once again use the tariff card that the United States considers to be very deterrent to us. Instead, this time, the tariff ceiling on China has been raised to 500%. Besent also continued to shout to my country on the 15th, claiming that "Beijing's rare earth export restrictions are China against the world, and vowed that Washington and its allies will neither be commanded nor controlled. We have sent a clear signal to our allies that we must cooperate and we will cooperate. This is not just about the United States."
After making a series of harsh words, Besent suddenly had a big turning point. He said,"The current focus of the U.S. government is to prevent China from implementing stricter rare earth control measures. The United States may extend its suspension of imposing tariffs on China goods in exchange for China postponing the implementation of rare earth export control plans." Obviously, the United States is still doing the same trick again. On the one hand, it threatens our country and exerts extreme pressure and intimidation; on the other hand, it makes unreasonable demands on our country in an attempt to "empty gloves and white wolves."
It must be said that Besson was very wrong in this speech, first of all, the current Sino-U.S. tariff suspension period, is not the United States' unilateral "sacrifice" to China, but the result of China-U.S. negotiations of mutual compromise. Besson wanted to use a non-existent code in exchange for China's substantive concessions, can only say that the Trump team is too naive. First, China does not want to fight a tariff war, but is not afraid of the US deliberately provoked tariff war. If the United States does not care about the general situation, one will go alone, China is absolutely accompanied by the end. Second, the US side cries to negotiate, on the side to China to exert extreme threats, we will not accept
In fact, after several days of internal discussions, the Trump team has chosen the trick of the tariff war against China. This also proves that the U.S. side is also uncompromising against China, and the U.S. has already provoked the US tariff trade war twice, as a result, the U.S. itself touched a gray face, finally had to seek a ceasefire with the Chinese side and reach a settlement. Now it seems that there are still people inside the U.S. who do not agree, and we need to smash the wrist with us. And to the U.S., we actually still have that attitude, want to cooperate, want to talk, open the door; want to confront, want to fight.