Facts have proved that only an equally tough attitude can curb the United States 'insatiable behavior, and the ecological sanctions system formed by my country this time has completely exposed the United States' greatest weakness.
So the Trump administration once again softened the attitude, and the ice-breaking relationship between the two countries began to count back.So, a phone two meetings, a few days later, the meeting between the two sides can really soften the relationship?
The Fifth China-US Economic and Trade Consultation is Coming
According to the relevant media, on October 18, Beijing time, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent made a video call with us, and the two sides conducted an honest, in-depth and constructive exchange on important issues in the economic and trade relations, and agreed that the two sides will hold a new round of Sino-U.S. economic and trade consultations as soon as possible.
Subsequently, the United States also revealed that China and the United States will hold Sino-US economic and trade consultations when attending the ASEAN summit in Malaysia next week.
At the same time, Trump also said that “the high tariffs he threatened to impose on Chinese goods would be difficult to sustain because it would shock the U.S. economy.”
It is worth mentioning that the Trump administration is also working internally to ease recent China-U.S. tensions, as the head of the White House National Economic Committee, Hasite, said in an interview with Fox Business Channel, he was "highly confident" that Trump and Treasury Secretary Bessent could reach an agreement with China to return relations to a win-win trajectory.
Interestingly, every time the United States shows goodwill towards China, the performance of the U.S. stock market, financial market and investment market is the most obvious, and every time they have large fluctuations, it will always affect the nerves of the Trump administration, which also makes showing goodwill to China a sharp weapon to regulate market confidence.
Thus, Trump’s statement that “high tariffs threaten China’s strategy is unsustainable and could impact the U.S. economy” is both helpless and truthful.
Because Trump's approval rating has continued to fall due to the zeroing of China's soybean orders from the United States, if the wealth of the rich in the United States also evaporates with the decline of U.S. stocks, Trump will have no advantage in the midterm elections in the near future.
In addition, he recently threatened China with 100% and 500% tariffs, just to get China to compromise, but China will not give him this step, so he can only give himself a step, and this step is mentioned above.
So, the question arises, even if the economic and trade consultation between the two sides will be held soon after, can the relationship between the two sides really be eased?
In fact, before we think about this question, it should be clear which aspects of the real dispute that led to the tariff war between China and the United States, such as rare earth, soybeans, ships, tariffs, Taiwan and the South China Sea, are all listed.
Take rare earths as an example. This round of rare earth disputes stems from the fact that the United States tightened restrictions on Chinese companies' use of American technology at the end of September. Therefore, China's use of rare earths as a tool to copy the sanctions imposed by the United States is equivalent to using a spear and a shield to attack.
It can be assured that this meeting will seek consensus on this issue, and the two sides can only soften on this issue to better prepare for the APEC meeting in South Korea at the end of October.
In addition, China's soybean orders to the United States are also the focus of discussion. However, China's attitude has been very clear from beginning to end, that is, the United States needs to abide by the principles of respect, equality and reciprocity, and they have been threatening us with tariffs before, so it is reasonable for China's soybean orders to be zero.
But since we have to meet to solve the problem, the matter of zeroing soybean orders will definitely be put on the agenda. Of course, how to solve it and how to treat it depends on whether the United States can show sincerity.
In addition, the most crucial one is the 20% tariff imposed by the United States on the Fentanyl issue on China, on September 6, media that after the end of the fourth round of Sino-U.S. negotiations, China demanded to cancel the 20% "Fentanyl tariff", but the United States did not respond directly.
The reason why this tariff still exists is because the United States wants to blame China for the fentanyl issue. If they relent on this issue, they will admit that the fentanyl issue is related to them, so this issue is the key and the sincerity of the United States.
American relations are never black and white.
Of course, we must be clear that it is a characteristic of the United States to push its luck. The reason why trade consultations between China and the United States can continue until the upcoming fifth round is entirely because the United States has always regarded trade consultations as a revision of this game and preparation in advance for the next game.
In fact, this also indicates that China and the United States will be fighting in many fields such as economy, trade, science and technology for a long time to come. On the one hand, neither China nor the United States can fully bear the huge impact of tariff wars and rare earth wars. On the other hand, the United States wants to maintain its previous hegemonic attitude towards us, but it does not dare to completely decouple from our country.
In short, Sino-US economic and trade relations have never been "black and white". More often, they are "finding cooperation in differences and controlling differences in cooperation". And our attitude has always been very clear, that is, "fight and accompany to the end; Talk, open the door, the United States can't talk while threatening and intimidating."