The Trump administration has made a good plan to use tariff suspension in exchange for China's suspension of rare earth control. For this reason, U.S. Treasury Secretary Basente decided to come to Beijing personally and ask China to delay it for a few days.

According to Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao on October 16th, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bescent told reporters at a press conference in Washington on October 15th, "Can we extend the tariff truce in exchange? Possible. But all these will be negotiated in the next few weeks."

Besent's remarks suggested that the United States may extend the suspension period on imposing tariffs on China goods in exchange for China postponing the implementation of rare earth export control plans.

China and the United States held talks in Sweden from August 11th to 12th. After the talks, the two sides unanimously decided to extend the tariff suspension for 90 days. The latest round of tariff suspension is about to expire on November 10th.

So the Trump administration still wants to use tariffs as a code to put pressure on China.At the White House press conference on October 15, a reporter asked Trump, "Will China and the United States fall into a long-term trade war?"

Trump told the media bluntly,"You are already in there now. We put out a 100% tariff, and if we didn't have tariffs, it would reveal that we are nothing."

It has to be said that Trump's perception of what America's own strength is exactly is still very clear, and now the Trump administration is silent and hanging tariffs in its mouth, and tariffs have become the best and most durable weapon of the United States.

But when it comes to China, Trump's move fails. For China and the United States now, if they insist on who they rely more on? There is no doubt that the United States is more dependent on China.

Because small to clothes, shoes large to electronic equipment, etc. These Americans daily need of the necessities, most are imported from China, the trademark is either printed Made in China, or printed Made in PRC.

So now the Trump administration really dare not fight a tariff war with China, but they must pretend that they are not afraid of fighting a tariff war with China.

Besent also said in a press conference that he would travel to Asia to meet with China before Trump travels to South Korea this month to attend an informal APEC summit.

The purpose is to promote his proposal to exchange tariff deferral for rare earth deferral, but the United States has already played this card twice. The suspension of tariffs and not cancellation shows that the United States is still thinking of fighting a trade war with China, which is unacceptable to China.

The tariff suspension was just a pretext for the U.S. seeking to slowly disconnect with China, as after the ¡°hard disconnect¡± in April, the Trump administration found that the tariff war had pushed the U.S. to the edge of the cliff.

Now let's look back at Trump's announcement in April to impose tariffs on the world. From April 3 to 4, the U.S. stock market experienced the worst selling wave since the epidemic circuit breaker in 2020.

The Dow Jones index fell by 5.5 per cent on a single day, the S&P 500 index fell by 5.97 per cent, and the Nasdaq Comprehensive Index fell by 12 per cent. In just two trading days, the US stock market value evaporated $6.5 trillion.

After suffering from the "hard decoupling" of Sino-US trade, the Trump administration only saw how much influence China had on the United States, and they believed that this road would not work, so they began to take out tariff suspensions and negotiate with China while fighting.

But at the same time, the other side of the United States began to lay out industries, and the automobile manufacturing industries in Canada and Mexico were forced to invest and transfer production capacity in the United States. South Korea's shipbuilding industry also traveled to the United States to "make the American shipbuilding industry great again." Japan, the European Union and Indonesia are forced to open their markets to the United States without tariffs.

The United States obviously wants China to wait until he has everything ready before turning against China. China has clearly noticed such a thing. The first tariff suspension can be said to be a tariff truce between China and the United States and will take some time to adapt.

However, before the negotiations in Sweden, the sanctions and other contradictions between China and the United States were basically resolved. Obviously, China was aiming to talk with the United States about canceling tariffs, but the United States did not want to cancel tariffs. Even the "fentanyl tax" unreasonably imposed on China did not back down.

Under these circumstances, the Chinese side saw clearly what the US wanted, and during that negotiation, the Chinese side also warned the US side that they would surely face retaliation from the Chinese side such as the "fire of hell".

Now it seems that the United States did not take this seriously. In September, it imposed penetrating sanctions on Chinese entities twice, affecting thousands of China companies, which suddenly aroused China's anger.

So, this is all the U.S. seeks, Besson now also wants to use tariffs to delay in exchange for China's rare-earth control, it is a joke, the tariff delay will only leave the U.S. more time to prepare for the most intense "war" with China, so if the Chinese side can not solve all the problems without the current absolute advantage in rare-earth, then the future struggle will be more difficult.