Xi Jinping's 'domestic backlash' vs. Trump's 'overthrow of the Communist Party' strategy to attack the recessionary system
The US' 'domestic backlash' and China's 'overthrow of the Communist Party' strategy are taking effect, and the US-China trade war is growing as they exploit each other's weaknesses during the simultaneous recession of capitalism and socialism.
The Trump regime's tariff attack, which is aimed at overthrowing the Communist Party's legitimacy in the failure of the real estate stimulus package, the biggest weakness of the Chinese Xi Jinping regime, was shown to be 125%.
The Vietnamese government announced on the 10th that the US and Vietnam began trade negotiations just hours after Washington announced a '90-day temporary suspension of the 46% tariff rate on Vietnamese exports.'
The two governments' statements said that they would "consider removing as many non-tariff barriers as possible," and announced the results of the meeting between Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer in Washington, Reuters reported on the same day.
The surprise trade negotiations between Vietnam and the United States began when Vietnam's top leader, Communist Party Secretary General To Lam, proposed to President Trump in a phone call that "tariffs on American imports will be reduced to zero," and the first implementation took place that day.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in a France 5 television interview on the 9th that France could recognize a Palestinian state in June, and that some Middle Eastern countries could recognize Israel.
Recognition of a Palestinian state has been extremely opposed by Israel, and France is rebelling against Trump’s Middle East policy, which has maintained an opposing strategy.
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As Vietnam's production bases in China's eastern coastal industrial zones have been concentrated and relocated, it has become a major regional manufacturing base for many Western companies. Last year, neighboring Southeast Asian countries had a trade surplus with the United States, their largest export market, exceeding $123 billion.
Xi Jinping's regime, which is responding to the tariffs with a view to increasing domestic backlash from the stock market plunge due to the imposition of US tariffs, is maintaining its identity as a supplementary force while enduring the retreat of its industrial base concentrated in the eastern coastal open zone, which is the foundation of its great power strategy.
President Xi himself has not made any direct comments on the recent US tariffs. Chinese state media reported that on the afternoon of the 9th, shortly after the retaliatory tariff bill went into effect in the United States, Xi Zhushan met with six other members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the pinnacle of Chinese power, and other senior officials, and gave a speech urging China to strengthen ties with its neighbors and “strengthen industrial and supply chain cooperation.”
Xi’s statement meant that Chinese officials were told that the new tariffs, which take effect on the 10th, would impose an additional 84% import tax on all American goods exported to China.
On the afternoon of the 9th, President Trump retaliated by raising tariffs on Chinese exports to 125%, both figures that were unimaginable just a few weeks ago.
“Trump has never been in a back-alley fight where the other side is willing to fight and use those kinds of tactics,” Scott Kennedy, a senior adviser at the Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Times. “For China, this is about their sovereignty. This is about the Communist Party’s grip on power. For Trump, it’s just a political campaign.”
The fallout from the trade breakdown will hit the United States, which relies on China for all sorts of manufactured goods, but it will hurt China more, said Wang Yuesheng, director of the Institute of International Economics at Peking University. “The impact on China is that Chinese products will have nowhere to go, and that will devastate export-oriented companies that make things like furniture, clothing, toys and appliances along China’s eastern seaboard, which exist primarily to serve American consumers. Those companies will be hit very hard,” he told the Times, calling it a “foreign-domestic strategy blow.”
Evan Medeiros, a professor of Asian studies at Georgetown University who served as Asia adviser to Democratic President Barack Obama, analyzed that China’s current strategy is to push the United States and hope that President Trump will succumb to domestic pressure to change course.
“China knows that if they succumb to pressure, they will be subject to more pressure,” Medeiros said. “They will resist with the belief that China can endure more pain than they can bear,” he told the New York Times, calling it a “long-term war.”
“Until then, Chinese leaders appear to be pressuring the United States for a long-term war,” the New York Times’ Beijing correspondent reported. “One sign is that influential bloggers have been able to weigh in on this crisis and suggest other ways to retaliate against the United States.”
The Times continued, “Trump’s bare-knuckle tactics make him a unique force in American politics,” but “President Xi Jinping faces a stubborn opponent who survived the chaos of China’s political purges in the late 20th century, and he sees America’s competitive tactics as ultimately aimed at subverting the ruling Communist Party’s legitimacy.”
In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on the 7th, President Trump said about the development of a European-style resort in the Gaza Strip, "It's really creating a free zone," and "I'll call it a free zone, a place where people aren't killed every day," and called the Gaza Strip a "hell" where people can't live, but on the 9th, France announced 'state recognition' for Palestine.
On March 5, President Trump publicly threatened on his TruthSocial, “Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye. You have a choice,” and “Release all the hostages now, not later, and return all the bodies of the people you killed right now, or you will be finished too,” and “This is your final warning. It is time to leave Gaza.”