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The standoff between the U.S. and China continues to escalate, which is leading to economic uncertainty worldwide.
Bloomberg News now reporting China is expanding the ongoing trade war.
It does not seem like we're getting any kind of state visit or to talk to anytime soon, or even high-level talks.
In the last two weeks,
the U.S. has placed tariffs of 145% on Chinese exports
and China has retaliated with tariffs of 125% and export restrictions on critical rare earth minerals.
China wants to make a deal.
They just don't know how quite to go about it.
It's one of those things that are not quite the proud people, and President Xi's a proud man.
At the moment, it doesn't seem to be working out, I think,
in the way in which President Trump may have anticipated or hoped that it would.
Jennifer Welch helped lead China policy at the National Security Council during the first Trump administration and also under President Biden.
Today, she's chief geoeconomics analyst for Bloomberg Economics.
I think President Trump's MO is to build pressure.
There's a real contrast of approaches here.
President Trump prides himself on his unpredictability as well as his hardball tactics, right?
Whereas Beijing, in particular, Chinese President Xi Jinping is a very methodical player when it comes to negotiations.