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Bloomberg News
January 23, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump may soon get a lesson about tangling with China on trade: Beijing can punch back.China has a long history of tit-for-tat retaliation when it comes to trade disputes and may well dust off the same policy playbook in the wake of the Trump administrations decision to slap tariffs on solar panels and washing machines.
Chinese think-tanks are likely scrambling to identify the industries in the Presidents support base that will lose out the most should it come down to a bare-knuckle fight," says Pauline Loong, managing director at research firm Asia-Analytica in Hong Kong.Boeing, the largest U.S. exporter, has long been a key bellwether for trade relations. Xi gave Boeing a $38 billion order on a 2015 plant visit in Seattle.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-23/china-has-targets-aplenty-to-retaliate-against-u-s-trade-action
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)China is going to attempt to hit the red areas hard.
intheozone
(1,103 posts)licenses granted and kick all the Trump businesses out of China. Those acts are probably the only ones that would get any real attention from Trump.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)just revoke all the licenses on any business that makes stuff for Trump brands
I think they had said a while back that if Trump did declare China a currency manipulator on Day 1 that they would look at retaliating against Trump by hit red states the hardest.
maxsolomon
(33,470 posts)Anything else is a side benefit. Trump will welcome a trade war. It will give him a fresh target for tweets to his Nativist base.