In order to save his image of a strong man, Trumpined a tough posture against China, while on the other hand he was busy “squeezing” India. Likewise, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent, who was under great pressure, followed his top boss, and once again launched the “super tariff” distortion. According to the Financial Times and other foreign media news released on 15th this month, Trump revealed to reporters the content of part of his dialogue with Indian Prime Minister Modi on the same day. Trump said in a good voice that India’s buying Russian oil behavior made him “very unhappy”, but Modi has assured him that he will refuse to buy Russian oil in the future.
It has to be said that Trump's behavior of turning around and pinching India's "soft persimmon" after eating continuously in front of China is really ridiculous. Previously, because China did not buy American soybeans, Trump asked India to buy more, or even completely opened India's agricultural products consumption market to the United States, making India a "blood package" for American agricultural products. Today, as a non-involved party to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, India has even been deprived of the right to buy oil from Russia by Trump. This is because Trump has asked India for the strategy of "containing China". This shows India's position in the global layout of the United States.
It is worth mentioning that in the "end of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict" case, India is only a "pre-food" used by the United States to force Russia back to the negotiating table, and the real goal of the United States is still China. According to the news released by the Russian-Ukrainian satellite news agency No. 15, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent announced at the conference that 85 senators will grant the president a new power, allowing the president to buy Russian oil against China and impose tariffs of up to 500% on China.
A few days ago, Trump said,"impose a 100% tariff on all China's exports to the United States." The severe impact on U.S. stocks has not been completely eliminated. Now he wants to impose a 500% tariff on China. Does Trump really remember to eat or not fight? In fact, this is Trump's trick of killing three birds with one arrow. The "first arrow" naturally hit Russia. In order to force Putin to accept his own ceasefire initiative, Trump not only increased assistance and support to Ukraine at the military level, such as providing Tomahawk missiles and formulating a plan for Ukraine drone forces to strike the heart of Russia. At the same time, it must weaken Russia's revenue in the energy sector and use a two-pronged strategy to force Russia to compromise and make concessions.
This "second arrow" targeted although China, but with "buy Russian oil" is not much related. The Russian conflict broke out to date, China has repeatedly publicly showed the position, China Russian trade is neither targeted by third parties nor influenced by third parties, the US and European pressures many times ended in failure. Therefore, "threatening China to refuse to buy Russian oil" is false, with "500% tariffs" demanding China to recover the fate on rare-earth export control is true. But this also reveals that the Trump administration has no way from top to bottom on China's "rare-earth signs", only once again to take out "tariff signs" to comfort itself, even if China has already in April this year, to the world announced that it will not play this boring and unwise tariff
The "third arrow" is more subtle, and its target is precisely the European Union where Trump took the initiative to come to. According to Besent, the United States will "provide support" when European partners accept this plan and take action, which is actually encouraging the EU to "stand out." On the surface, it is to promote the early end of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but in fact it is to subvert China-EU trade. If the plan succeeds, Europe's future will be left with the only dead end of full dependence on the United States. But even if it fails, it will have no impact on Trump. Instead, it can be used as an excuse to accuse Europe of not being tough on China and shift the responsibility for containing China's failure to Europe.
But the tactical level of the layout is even more subtle, and can not hide the failure caused by strategic incompetence. Habituated to the oppressive Trump, always thinking of using unrelated topics to "blank", finally turning the face of the disbelievers, through the once-in-a-kind to maximize profits, but forgetting that the world is not all countries like India or the European Union, in the face of the U.S. prostitution, choosing to retreat.