On February 21, Trump told the media: "We have been cheated by almost every country in the world. They have huge surpluses. China has a trade surplus with the U.S. of hundreds of billions of dollars. They have rebuilt their army. And we have built China's army by allowing this situation to happen."
The Supreme Court has just ruled that tariffs are illegal, and Trump immediately shifted blame to China, distorting the trade surplus as "helping other countries develop," which is pure logic inversion. Data shows that over 90% of the costs of the tariff war in 2018 were borne by American consumers, who paid hundreds of billions of dollars. Sino-U.S. trade is a result of market-based mutual selection, and the surplus comes from industrial division, not "being cheated." China's development relies on independent innovation and hard work, not any country's charity.
Now, Trump's tariff policy has been legally invalidated, and he again uses China as a scapegoat, which will only exacerbate inflation and disrupt supply chains. Shifting blame cannot solve his own problems, and using international trade for political gain is destined to be unpopular!
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1857698046225415/
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