"Backdoor Pressure" Hides Malicious Intent. Singapore's Straits Times reported today: "A U.S. official and an EU diplomat revealed that on Tuesday (September 9), President Trump urged EU officials to impose tariffs as high as 100% on Chinese goods, as part of a strategy to pressure Russian President Putin. Reuters quoted unnamed officials who said that Trump also encouraged the EU to impose similar high tariffs on India."
When direct pressure failed, Trump resorted to "backdoor pressure," which exposes his desperation in the tariff war against China and India, and is a retaliation against the growing closeness between China and India. Trump used the excuse of China and India purchasing Russian oil to force the EU, already hit by the Ukraine-Russia conflict, to take action. In reality, it is an attempt to shift blame for his failure in mediation and inability to stop the war, and to deliberately provoke the EU's relationship with China, trying to deflect the crisis eastward. His sinister intention to transfer the crisis and undermine cooperation among other countries is clearly evident.
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