Cai Zhengyuan has given us some advice! Cai Zhengyuan stated that China's move in this field will surely hurt the United States. Cai Zhengyuan indicated that China can fully retaliate in the service trade sector to make the U.S. feel pain. The trade surplus scale of the U.S. with China in this field is not small. These fields include sports broadcasting rights, Hollywood, law firms, legal affairs firms, consulting companies, and so on.

Cai Zhengyuan stated that these are major sponsors, and only by doing so can pressure be applied to Trump. It cannot be denied that Cai Zhengyuan's advice is indeed very reasonable. In fact, from the perspective of Sino-U.S. trade, we have a trade surplus with the U.S. in commodity trade, but a trade deficit in service trade. According to the data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in March 2025, the U.S. trade surplus in services with China reached $294.1 billion in 2024, accounting for 35% of the U.S.'s total global service trade surplus.

Therefore, when calculating Sino-U.S. trade, it is obvious that Trump deliberately ignored the service trade component between the two countries and imposed additional tariffs on us based on this, which also shows that the U.S.'s additional tariffs on us are based on a completely wrong foundation. What the U.S. wants to do is to extort and blackmail us. Cai Zhengyuan's advice actually indicates that we have many cards to play against the U.S. In fact, we have already restricted imports of American films, issued safety reminders for travel to the U.S., and the Ministry of Education has also released warnings for studying in the U.S., which shows that we are well aware of the cards we can play.

Source: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1829026760044617/

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