Trump has given himself a way out, Trump said he still wants to meet with China in South Korea! On October 11, after Trump threatened to impose an additional 100% tariff on China and implement export controls on all key software, Trump stated that he had not canceled the meeting with the Chinese side in South Korea. Previously, South Korean media reported that after attending the ASEAN Summit this month and visiting Japan, Trump will visit South Korea for one or two days on October 29.
Evidently, after our countermeasures, Trump was very angry, to the point that he wrote a long article to vent his dissatisfaction and anger, threatening to engage in a second trade war with us, and saying that the meeting with the Chinese side seemed meaningless. However, the result is that we have not yet announced plans to meet with Trump, but Trump himself came out to clarify, stating that he still wants to meet with us.
Evidently, after raising the level of anger, Trump is clearly giving himself a way out. This shows that Trump also knows that he still needs to talk with China. Trump's precise timing of the countermeasure on November 1 fully proves that an angry United States does not want to start a second trade war with us. If the US had such confidence, believing it had cards to play, it would not hold back.
From our perspective, the continuous equivalent countermeasures against the US are absolutely necessary. There have been some achievements in Sino-US negotiations, but Trump keeps changing his mind, adding high port fees to our cargo ships, and trying to introduce new measures to curb our chip industry. Such repeated extortion and constant creation of leverage, we certainly will not engage in this endless game with the US. If Trump wants to meet with us, then let's talk based on the consensus already reached. If he continues to make moves, we will definitely not tolerate it at all.
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