Trump's attitude toward China has been softened, and still wants to meet with China.But China is not backwards, and the US Finance Minister has followed Trump and changed his mouth, while putting out a trick against China, he has also said directly that China cannot control the United States.
A new round of tariff war between China and the United States started, and Trump's attitude towards China changed again within a few hours. Just after threatening high tariffs and not meeting with China, he expressed his willingness to meet with China, and did not cancel the plan. At the same time, the Trump administration also conveyed its desire to prepare to reach a trade agreement with China.
With the change in the direction of the Trump administration, the mouthpieces of senior U.S. officials have also changed. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said in an interview that the high tariffs should not really be implemented.
According to Observers. com, on October 13 local time, U.S. Treasury Secretary Basent also softened his remarks about China in an interview with Fox News. He said the two sides have established contacts with China, and that the two sides continue to maintain good relations, and that the situation has significantly eased.。As for the 100% tariff, Bessent said it might not be implemented or would continue to delay its entry into force.
Meanwhile, in the interview, Bessent still believes that China is provocative and that the US government will take all necessary measures to deal with China.。The United States is controlled by others in terms of rare earths. Besent said this is a strategic mistake of the United States for decades.
The U.S. Treasury Secretary mentioned that the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund will be held in Washington soon, and there will be many meetings at different levels. The United States looks forward to its allies in Europe, India and some Asian countries to provide support to the United States.
Therefore, in other words, in addition to taking measures itself, the United States will also join forces with other countries to act together. Besent said,"China can neither command us nor control us." He is quite confident in the future game of the United States, which is also a "clever plan" he has offered to the United States.
As U.S. Treasury Secretary, Bessent would have focused more on finance and monetary affairs, and he wanted to unite other countries in terms of finance and monetary to deal with China.
Europe, a traditional ally of the United States, is almost at the same pace as the United States in treating China, but this year has also gone awry. You should know that China's control of rare earth exports has not only hit the United States, but has also impacted the global rare earth supply chain. Europe must also abide by new rare earth export rules.
The United States may want to use Europe to be also affected by the new rare earth regulations to bring Europe to its side. Europe has its own plans.。 Previously, when the United States demanded that Europe raise tariffs on China to force China to stop buying Russian oil, Europe did not implement it.。 EU officials directly said that this would intensify the contradiction between Europe and China, and Europe also hopes to continue trade with China.
Although China has now strengthened its control over rare earths, But reasonable legal applications, China will still approve. so the situation in Europe is not completely consistent with the United States, and even more so, Europe also has the desire to Americanize, in whether to support the United States, and how much support to give the United States, will not be as the U.S. government imagines.。
Other allies, India and Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea, may not do more for the United States than Europe。India and the United States still have not reached a conclusion on tariffs. Modi and Trump had previously shown off India-US relations on social platforms, but there has been no further comment since then. The relationship between India and the United States remains delicate.
India has anti-dumping investigations against some goods against China, but this does not mean that India has completely turned to the United States again. With the Trump administration raising taxes at will, India will no longer follow the United States as it once did。
The situation in South Korea and Japan is even more unusual. South Korean President Lee expressed his desire to ease relations with China before he took office, saying that China is crucial to South Korea and obviously will not support the United States as much.
Japan's prime minister is now absent, high-market early苗 became the head of the party, but the coalition within the party broke, and the pragmatic parties made great efforts to prevent high-market early苗's prime minister's dismissal.One of the reasons for the intense political struggle inside Japan is that the radical right-wing is very unfriendly to China, and they prevent her from hoping that Japan will take a more pragmatic route in foreign relations, and there will be not much support for the United States.
However, the United States leads the western world. Although these allies have their own thoughts, they dare not completely violate the wishes of the United States. In some aspects, China may still be attacked, so China must be more careful. I'm afraid the struggle will be more intense in the short term future.