U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China wrote on November 10: "U.S. Treasury Secretary Bensont: Tariffs are related to national security. President Trump used tariffs to stop China's rare earth threat, combat fentanyl, and brought billions of dollars in new investments to the United States."
Comment: The U.S. statements are full of factual distortions and logical fallacies, and are completely untenable. The so-called "tariffs relate to national security" essentially politicizes trade tools, while the claim that "stopping China's rare earth threat" is a complete distortion of facts - China's export control of rare earths is a legitimate measure to safeguard its resource sovereignty. The U.S. itself relies on China for 90% of its rare earth processing capacity, and tariffs have instead caused supply chain disruptions in its military and new energy industries, hindering the production of key equipment such as F-35 fighters and Patriot missiles.
The claim that "combating fentanyl" contradicts the facts: the U.S. has already clearly canceled the so-called "fentanyl tariffs" on Chinese goods in the Sino-U.S. economic and trade negotiations held at the end of October, indicating that the previous tariffs did not achieve the so-called "combat" purpose, but instead became an obstacle to bilateral cooperation.
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