Is 'Davos Man' Rethinking China?
Thursday was the real shakedown. The Trump administration announced global tariffs on steel and aluminum made in China (and elsewhere  though China is the biggest producer in the world).
Clearly not the guys who held up Xi Jinping as something akin to a war hero in the establishment's fight against Trump.
Writing in Foreign Affairs  Kurt Campbell  CEO of the Center for a New American Security  and Ely Ratner  a senior China fellow at the magazine's publisher  the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)  think  Trump  is on the right track  but has to tread carefully.
"The  Trump  administrationâs first National Security Strategy took a step in the right direction by interrogating past assumptions in U.S. strategy " they wrote  adding that  Trump âs policy focus on bilateral trade  the abandonment of multilateral trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership  the questioning of the value of alliances  and less emphasis on diplomacyâhave put Washington at risk of being too confrontational with Beijing  and not competitive enough.
Thursday was the real shakedown. The Trump administration announced global tariffs on steel and aluminum made in China (and elsewhere  though China is the biggest producer in the world).
Clearly not the guys who held up Xi Jinping as something akin to a war hero in the establishment's fight against  [TGT] .
Writing in Foreign Affairs  Kurt Campbell  CEO of the Center for a New American Security  and Ely Ratner  a senior China fellow at the magazine's publisher  the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)  think   [TGT] is on the right track  but has to tread carefully.
" [TGT] administrationâs first National Security Strategy took a step in the right direction by interrogating past assumptions in U.S. strategy " they wrote  adding that   [TGT]  âs policy focus on bilateral trade  the abandonment of multilateral trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership  the questioning of the value of alliances  and less emphasis on diplomacyâhave put Washington at risk of being too confrontational with Beijing  and not competitive enough.