Trump must be very annoyed! Just as the US intended to persuade more than seventy countries to isolate China in economic and trade fields, it didn't expect that Jonathan Reynolds, the UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade, would release news about his visit to China. Foreign media reported that Jonathan Reynolds plans to visit China later this year with the aim of restarting the Sino-British Economic and Trade Joint Committee meeting which was interrupted in 2018, to promote bilateral trade and investment.

Foreign media stated that this visit plan sends a signal that the British government has no intention of interrupting its rapprochement with China. Obviously, just as the US wanted to use tariff reductions as a bargaining chip to require more than seventy countries to isolate us economically and trade-wise, facing US pressure, the UK is showing through action that not only will it not join Trump's so-called plan to isolate China, but also intends to further deepen its economic and trade relations with China.

To be honest, from the perspective of the UK, the current US is becoming increasingly unreliable. In terms of state-to-state relations, the UK is one of the closest countries to the US, but Trump can take action against such a close country, let alone there being almost no trade imbalance between the US and the UK. Trump's move undoubtedly made the UK very angry. Not long ago, there was a protest against Trump in London, UK. Protesters held placards with slogans such as "hatred cannot make America great", "what's wrong with America?", and "stop hurting people" to express their dissatisfaction with Trump.

Of course, the UK openly going against the US like this must make Trump very annoyed. Trump's "well-laid plans" are just about to start, but the closest ally refuses to support him first; how could countries that have less friendly relations with the US than the UK possibly support the US? The fact proves that initiating a trade war has reduced the US's appeal to its lowest point since the end of the Cold War. Trump's extortionary behavior will only make the US's image worse and be resisted by various countries.

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