Tariffs to the agricultural and livestock sectors, about twenty companies on the blacklist y Complaints in the World Trade Organization. The last and announced Chinese walk Follow the path towards the commercial shock of the two great economic powers. As soon as American tariffs came into force, Beijing He approved his and already awaits Donald Trump’s response, US president, in a spiral already known.
Trump had announced on the eve he did not expect “excessive reprisals.” Hours later he taxed Beijing with the 15% imports such as chicken, wheat and corn, and with him 10% soy, sorghum, beef and pork, dairy, fruits and vegetables. The Ministry of Commerce has added to 15 US companies to a list that demands a Special permit To receive material from Double civil and military use. And 10 other companies have received the red light for any type of economic activity with China for selling weapons to Taiwan. The measures will be in force on March 10 and they are expected to cost you millions of dollars to the American primary sector.
Trump He already insuffled courage before arid times. “To the great cattle ranches of the United States: Status ready to produce a lot of products that will be sold within the United States. Functions!” They are likely to need more than encouragement. The Chinese market quadruple in consumers to the American. It is the main destination of its agricultural exports, with 17% of the total, which last year added almost 30,000 million dollars. It does not seem that the “great cattle ranches” are going to get unscathed from Chinese obstacles.
“This American practice despises the facts, international trade rules and positions of all parties, and is a typical act of unilateralism and matonism,” the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. In the Commercial Warthirdly described as an eye for an eye and tooth per tooth, they do not play China y USA The same paper.
War to fentanyl
Responsible for the first one would be equivalent to blaming Ukraine for defending Russia. The guerranow and in his first term, he was declared by Trump. China responds to each save with the minimum so as not to seem cowardly in the face of global opinion and the own while insisting on the trading. If eight years ago Trump justified the onslaught in the commercial imbalance, he now points to the Fentanyl.
Beijing defends its effective fight against that drug, it emphasizes that the United States has not detected a single stash from China in recent years and remembers that Joe Biden applauded his achievements before leaving the White House. The guilt of death, says Beijing, is the demand created by the American pharmaceutical industry and pointing to others, he adds, will not solve the problem.
Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubiohe accused China of subjecting her “An opium war in reverse”. It is unlikely that Rubio, an Antichino Falcon, could find a more unfortunate example. That episode, which epitomizes atrocious colonialism, still torments the Chinese almost two centuries later. England, the first power then, flooded from opium to China, drowned in its self -placing, despite the imperial refusal.
War drums
The First commercial war He ended with an agreement in 2020 for which China promised to buy additional 200,000 million dollars of American products. The irruption of the coronavirus He prevented Beijin from fulfilling it. After the parenthesis of Joe Bidenwho did not withdraw any of Trump’s tariffs, war drums return.
The tariff. Popular National Assemblythe Chinese legislative, who will dictate the political and economic master lines. Protecting against American hostility has occupied Chinese gerifaltes in recent years. It is certain that the prime minister, Li Qiang, will insist on Wednesday in his inaugural speech in stimulating self -consumption and technological self -sufficiency.
