Observation Network reported that Sean Moran, president of the US-China Business Council, said that the US may not have as many chips in the economic war as it imagined.

He said that there is a view in the United States that takes it for granted that China will yield, but in fact, China has been prepared since 2018.

Why does China remain calm and not rush to talk with the US like other countries? One reason is that China is fully prepared. China made contingency plans early on and had a premonition about Trump's possible actions.

When Trump was running for election last year, European countries said they began studying Trump and even set up special teams, but now it seems that Europe's so-called study is no different from not studying at all, as they completely failed to anticipate what kind of behavior Trump would take.

China has never had any illusions about the US, so after the US really went crazy, China could still maintain strategic composure because everything was under control.

Sean Moran, President of the US-China Business Council

Trump Misjudged

Now everyone in the US is against Trump's economic war, and Western media, experts, and politicians' interpretations are almost the same. The most frequently mentioned point is that Trump misjudged, overestimated the US, and underestimated China.

An American official also revealed that according to the Trump administration's expectations, China should be the first to compromise. It was precisely because China did not compromise first that Trump immediately lost his footing, quickly gave other countries a 90-day buffer period in an attempt to isolate China. However, China still didn't fall for it, and the US itself couldn't hold out, immediately exempting key areas.

Afterwards, it retreated again and again, and even made up lies saying that "negotiations" between China and the US were ongoing, clearly showing that it couldn't handle the situation anymore.

US President Donald Trump

The US is the one without a plan

Trump seemed to think he was calculating while the other side was unprepared, believing he could surprise China into submission. However, reality turned out to be "the unprepared vs. the prepared." Trump neither understands the situation in the US nor the situation in China, yet he insists on confrontation with China based on naive fantasies.

In fact, the reason why China can calmly deal with this economic war is not due to last-minute efforts but years of strategic preparation.

Even before Trump took action, China was already wary of the possibility of extreme pressure from the US and had preemptively laid out a series of defensive and countermeasures, including reshaping supply chains, breaking through key technologies, and diversifying markets.

When the storm finally arrived, China did not panic as Trump expected, but instead responded methodically, gradually mitigating the impact and accurately retaliating.

When compared, it becomes clear that the US is the one caught off guard. After several rounds of games, the US has run out of cards, leaving only Trump's mouthful of lies.

US and Chinese flags

BBC Sides with China

Now, even the BBC, which usually likes to smear China, has taken China's side, believing that China will win because China knows when Trump will "blink."

This reason is undoubtedly painful for Trump, a dagger to the US, telling Americans: The economic war was initiated by Trump, but every step China took was calculated, precisely grasping Trump.

BBC also listed the cards China holds and concluded that China is well-prepared and cannot be cornered.

So, the one truly trapped is not China, but Trump himself.

He thought he could break the rules and win by brute force, but he didn't expect that facing an opponent who had prepared for the worst and was in rhythm at every step, he not only failed to gain control but also had no chance to turn the tables.

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