The phone has still not sounded. Even Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has distanced himself from the assertion of the American president that Xi Jinping called the White House. After having made almost blow for blow, by imposing 125 % customs duties at the entrance to American products in China against 145 % in the other direction and by blocking the export of certain rare land so strategic, the Chinese leader stood up. For him, there is no question of bending against Trump: the patient strategist is waiting to obtain concessions from the agitated billionaire, which spreads over the interviews but whose maximalist positions seem difficult to hold.
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Does this break point approach? “At one point, I will decrease [les droits de douane] Because otherwise we can never do business with them. And they really want to do business “admitted Donald Trump in an interview with the NBC channel, Sunday, May 4, as if to prepare the pirouette which will have to pass the retreat.
The Chinese President did not choose this trade war, Donald Trump imposed on him when he noted, on April 9, in the face of market feverishness, that it was better to abandon his customs rights against most countries to focus only on China, whose rival status is consensus on the American political scene.
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