Politics

With Tariff Escalations, US and China Enter a New Era

Experts say U.S.–China relations have crossed a key threshold; a showdown between the world’s largest and second-largest economies has begun.

News AnalysisAfter days of breakneck tariff escalations between the United States and the Chinese regime, the two countries have entered a new era of heightened confrontation and decoupling.That’s according to experts, who see little chance of reversal.President Donald Trump’s unveiling of 34 percent reciprocal tariffs on China, alongside higher levies on dozens of other countries, on April 2 kick-started a series of tit-for-tat moves.

The reciprocal tariffs were imposed to counter the regime’s decades of unfair trade practices.After Beijing retaliated with its own 34 percent duty, Trump raised U.S.

tariffs by 50 percent, only to again be matched by the Chinese regime, which has repeatedly vowed to “fight to the end.”..

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