Trump’s trade war strengthens the soft power in China

Trump administration officials promoted the customs tariff as a way to enhance our manufacture and create more high -wage jobs. But the American business owners drew a completely different picture of the situation on Tikhak. In one video clip, the founder of a brand carefully carried out modern hair on her eyes and explained that the company’s products “cannot be made here literally.” Elsewhere, the CEO of a shoe company similarly said: “China is just the only place I can manufacture.” The owner of the company, which makes the self -examination kiosks, regret the extent of the magnificence of his experiences with suppliers in the United States compared to those in China. “What is going on around it is that the Americans are a group of children and it is difficult for them to work with them,” he told the camera.

London -based clothing founder struck a more intimate tone, downloading the display of pictures of itself with the workers of its partners in China, which was appointed to the song “Love You”. The text over one image reads “Our victories are their victories.” The Tiktok Post has received more than 55,000 likes, an indication of how positions towards China have evolved between some Western consumers, at least compared to the past when the country’s factories were mostly associated with pumping cheap cheap goods. “Suddenly people see, oh, this is not the” slave work “that makes my clothes, they are actually human,” says Tianio Fang, a colleague of the new American research center and one of the founders of the Chinese newsletter for Internet growth.

In recent weeks, as the constantly changing commercial policies of the Trump administration angered American allies like Canada, a number of prominent commentators began to indicate that the era of the American exception has ended. They argued in the coming contracts, which will now be defined in the rise of China.

“The Chinese century, Donald Trump brought you,” said David Frum, the staff of the Atlantic Employee and the former speech writer of George W. Bush in A. Social media yet On April 2. New York Times Times Thomas Friedman Pillar On the same day that destroys a modern trip to China, during which he witnessed the impressive infrastructure in the country and technological development. His title was “I just saw the future. It was not in America.”

“When people say this is the Chinese century, what they really mean is that the consensus that this will be the American century is broken,” says Fang.

The increased effect

When the most comprehensive definitions in Trump caused the global stock markets to take earlier this week, the American social media influenced Darren Wattakkins Junior, known as Ishospide for more than 100 million his collective followers, was conclusion A sprawling round throughout China with a stopping in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other cities. Watskins spent days in himself mixing with Chinese celebrities and wandering a boat with the sparkling Hong Kong horizon as a background. By broadcasting in the actual time, ISHOWSPEED fans got an “unprecedented opportunity” to see “Non -Armed China”, Yaling Jiang, CEO of Strategy Aperturechina, I wrote in the newsletter.

Several Americans got a direct glimpse into China earlier this year when the United States was appointed to ban Tiktok at the country level. The expectation of the application may disappear soon, hundreds of thousands of people I flocked to RednoteThe Chinese -owned social media application, where they saw leaflets for people in China showing their local electric cars and comfortable urban apartments. Tiktok itself, which was created by the Chinese technology giant, is a testimony of the growing soft power in China. Trump pledged to save the application, and despite the warnings of American legislators about the risks of data security he introduces, Licker of Americans Support a ban more than a few years.