On Monday, he will assume the Presidency of the United States for the second time, on the back of a spectacular electoral victory. Since November, in his theatrical style, he has threatened. Everything smokes. Trump has a thing for fantasies. Sometimes he scares Americans by saying that immigrants will eat their dogs, and sometimes he tries to scare the world, insinuating that he will use military force to support his expansionist delusions.
A long time ago, when advising Bill Clinton, marketer James Carville fulminated: “It’s the economy, stupid.” Trump will take office a week after revealing that he ended 2024 with a trade surplus of US$990 billion. This result surprised the world.
Chinese industries achieved something similar to the performance of the United States in the years following World War II, when Europe was ruined. Panama? Greenland? Canada? Immigrants? Nothing like that, it’s China, idiot.
Reporter Keith Bradsher, who has covered trade in the Middle Kingdom since 1991, showed that, at one end, Chinese industry accounts for a third of world production. Alone, it produces more than the USA, Japan, Germany and Korea combined. On the other hand, China trains more engineers and related professionals than all the young people graduating from American colleges.
When the United States reconnected with China, it believed that economic opening would encourage the country’s democratization. They also assumed that their products would gain that immense market. China has not democratized and it is Americans who are buying Chinese manufacturing.
Brazil can be taken as an example of American and Trump’s myopia, as well as the cunning of Chinese rulers. In the name of an angry conservatism, the president-elect of the United States flirts with . During his four years in government, the former captain antagonized China, without any advantage. Beijing remained Brazil’s largest trading partner. Worse: it will produce electric and hybrid cars that once belonged to the American Ford.
China became a commercial power because it adopted the great lesson of American President Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929): “The main business of the American people is business.” For Trump, the US business seems to be the problem.
his star-struck advisor, embodies this bias. With the innovative spirit of American business, it manufactures electric cars. In the last quarter of 2024, Chinese BYD surpassed it in sales. In Brazil, Musk got into a puerile fight with the Supreme Court.
(Meanwhile, without controversy, China tightens the internet, with Musk’s complacency. Trump threatens to ban the social network TikTok and the Chinese can sell it. . Enemies, enemies, business aside.)
Chinese rulers have an agenda of interests and invest in infrastructure projects around the world. Meanwhile, Trump threatens to govern the United States with an agenda of trouble, allying himself with troublemakers.
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