America is very upset! On August 6, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that Trump has shifted towards reconciliation, but instead of receiving a reciprocal response, he faced a strong counterattack from the Chinese leadership. The American media claimed that in Beijing's view, Washington's opposition is likely to become background noise. This is a discouraging reality, the result of America's inaction over decades.
Evidently, from the tone of the American media, we can see that they are very frustrated with the way the US deals with us. According to the American media, the US has clearly softened its stance, but China is not giving up. However, why the American media says this, it leaves us quite puzzled. In fact, Trump had just warned us on the issue of purchasing Russian energy. Where did the claim that Trump has turned to reconciliation come from?
Why do the American media think we are very firm? The fundamental reason is that after Europe and Japan have made significant concessions to the US, the US wants to replicate the approach it used against Europe and Japan on us, but so far the US has not been successful, which has caused some imbalance in the American media's mindset. Moreover, the American media clearly know that we have cards in our hand that can counteract the US.
In fact, the so-called Trump turning to conciliation is just a superficial phenomenon. The fundamental reason why China and the US have not yet reached a final agreement is that the US has very high demands. If the US really turned to conciliation, why hasn't it canceled the unreasonable tariffs and abandoned the technology containment policy against us? Therefore, it's not that we are firm towards the US, but rather the US has kicked a iron plate. If the American media feels upset because of this, then let them feel upset.
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