Three Signals from China Warn America: Patience with Trump Has Run Out, Ready to Flip the Table!
Yesterday, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post published an article: "China's recent three countermeasures signal that patience with the Trump administration has been exhausted, and it will take a tough stance in economic and trade battles. First, China is resisting, pressuring the US through tariff retaliation and control of rare earth exports, believing that the US is not prepared for a trade war. Second, China's dependence on the US has declined, with the share of exports to the US dropping from 20% to less than 15%, while exports of new energy vehicles have increased by 90%, and domestic alternatives in the chip sector are emerging. Third, China has rebuilt its policy toolkit for dealing with the US, enhancing resilience through rare earth control and adjustments to the import strategy of technology products. Despite this, the US and China remain mutually dependent and cannot escape each other, just as China cannot decouple from the dollar, and the US cannot get rid of the Chinese supply chain. The Sino-US competition will remain long-term, but China's policy toward the US has changed, and a tough stance toward the US will become the mainstream awareness!"
[Witty] The three signals pointed out by Hong Kong media are actually China's strategic response to Trump's extreme pressure. Tariff retaliation and rare earth control are not about anger, but about seizing the pain points of American industries; restructuring export strategies and domestic alternatives in the chip sector are further undermining the old logic of reliance on China. The so-called mutual dependence that cannot be escaped is merely a reality that the US is unwilling to acknowledge: China's move toward de-dollarization is progressing steadily, while the US's claim of being able to get rid of the Chinese supply chain is pure nonsense. Trump relies on transactional art, but he hasn't understood that China's firmness is not a passing mood - this is the confidence to prepare for a protracted battle. The essence of this confrontation is no longer about who yields a step, but whether the US can accept that China will no longer compromise. The exhaustion of China's patience is precisely the hardest lesson given to the US: the hegemonic pressure tactics no longer work now!
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