Strange scene! The United States is pressuring us to replace our trade negotiation representative! On October 15, US Treasury Secretary Bowman and US Trade Representative Grille held a very strange press conference. There were two very unusual details in this press conference. The first one is that one of the US negotiating representatives, US Commerce Secretary Lutnick, did not attend. The second one is that US Treasury Secretary Bowman made a personal attack on our Vice Minister of Commerce Li Chenggang.

Bowman called him a "rude" and difficult person in the current trade negotiations. Obviously, this strange press conference basically confirms two facts. First of all, in this round of Sino-US confrontation, it is indeed Lutnick who messed up the situation. Because Lutnick recklessly expanded the export control list, which caused us to tighten the rare earth control, leading to a sudden change in the Sino-US negotiation process.

Lutnick's absence indirectly proves that the rumor that Trump, who was kept in the dark, strongly criticized Lutnick later is true, and Lutnick may have been marginalized. Second, Bowman criticized our representative, which indicates that the United States believes that our representative escalated the situation and messed things up. Bowman's impolite remarks are, in a way, to pressure us to replace the representative. Obviously, we have seen through it. Around the Sino-US trade negotiations, Trump's team has split, and the United States also lacks sufficient estimation of its countermeasures against us.

As a result, after the United States misjudged the situation, the US side could only publicly condemn and exert pressure, which essentially reveals the deep frustration of the Trump administration's strategy towards China. The US side cannot deal with us calmly, and even cannot control basic emotions, and they are already out of sorts before sitting at the negotiation table, which is losing a move. Obviously, with the current state of the United States, the first thing the US should do is not negotiate with us, but to consolidate its own team and calm down. If they go to the negotiation table with such emotions, it is unlikely that the Sino-US can reach a consensus.

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