Did Trump identify Asia about a “full assault” on China?

Since US President Donald Trump put a tariff for each of America’s trade partners on Wednesday, he had strong words to Beijing.

“I have great respect for President Xi (Jinping) from China, and the great respect of China, but they were benefiting from us,” Trump said during his hour of this hour on Wednesday.

“If you look at it … if you look at it … China, the first row, 67 %. These are the customs duties that were directed to the United States of America, including currency manipulation and commercial barriers,” Trump said.

“We will ship (they are) a 34 % reduced tariff,” he added. “In other words, they receive us, we charge them, and we impose them less. How can anyone be upset?”

But the Ministry of Commerce in China immediately described the move as a “typical act of bullying from one side” and pledged to take “firm counter measures to protect its rights and interests.”

Government News Agency accused Shinacho Trump of “converting trade into a simplified game against Tat.”

Experts believe that Beijing has a good reason for discomfort.

For one of them, the latest announcement is an addition to the current definitions by 20 % on Chinese goods.

Second, by imposing a heavy tariff on other countries of Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, it “criticized” the door about how China has harvested its supply chains to circumvent the definitions imposed on Beijing during the first period of Trump.

There were five Asian countries in 10 countries and regions that were struck with the highest definitions.

Trump has imposed a new tariff on Chinese imports since she returned to the White House in January, which raised the fees to 20 %.

In less than a week, this customs tariff will jump to 54 %, regardless of products such as cars, steel and aluminum, which will be exposed to less firms.

Beijing was also at the end of the other Trump commercial race.

Earlier on Wednesday, the president signed an executive order to end a referee of low -value parcels from China.

This allowed Chinese e -commerce giants such as Shein and TEMU to charge the package with a retail value of less than $ 800 (617 pounds) for the United States, without taxes and searches.

Nearly 1.4 billion shipments entered the United States under government in the last fiscal year, according to customs data.

The removal of the exemption can force some Chinese companies to transfer the additional cost of customers, making their goods less competitive in the United States.

This is a disturbing picture of Beijing.

“I don’t think the new customs tariffs are necessarily aimed at China. But when the United States accumulates from the definitions of each other, specifically towards China, the numbers become very quickly.”

“China and Chinese will have to take revenge. They will not be able to sit and watch this,” she said.

Trump also imposed a heavy tariff, ranging from 46 % to 49 %, on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

This represents a “full attack on the extended supply chain in Beijing”, Stephen Ins from the Investment Company SPI Asset Management.

He added: “Vietnam … and others in the ocean is side effects in what is formed to be the most reorganizing the American trade policy in one generation.” “This is not a dream-it is a strategic containment through the war of tariffs.”

Laos and Cambodia, who are among the poorest countries in the region, depends greatly on Chinese investment in the supply chain infrastructure. It is expected that high tariff rates will reach both countries.

China is the largest commercial partner in Vietnam. He was one of the main beneficiaries of the United States of China during the first period of Trump.

In 2018, Trump struck China with definitions, causing some companies to think about its products. Some have chosen manufacturing to Vietnam.

This has increased exports from Vietnam to the United States, with Chinese companies that transferred production there contribute to this number.

“Vietnam was clearly targeted (by Trump) because of its role as a channel for China’s circumstance of the previous definitions,” former commercial negotiator Stephen Olson told the BBC.

While the United States is still the largest export market in Vietnam, China is its largest supplier for commodities, as it represents more than a third of imports, according to the latest official data.

Chinese companies were behind nearly one of every three new investments in Vietnam last year.

Potter Dot, a professor at Inid Business College, said that new taxes on Southeast Asia will be “exorbitant” for China.

He added: “China is facing a problem in demand, and in the last Trump administration, its companies have interacted closely with the customs tariff by re -renewing the supply chains and transporting them to (Southeast Asian countries). This section was closed.”

But Trump’s taxes on the region will also affect American -made American companies in Southeast Asia.

For example, American companies including Apple, Intel and SPORTSWEAR NIKE are large factories in Vietnam.

A recent survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam found that most American manufacturers expect to get rid of employees if the customs tariff is imposed.

There is an issue that China can do to respond to the new definitions, given that it only has days before it comes into effect.

Mr. Olson said he expected Beijing to have a “strong” response with the customs tariff and other measures, which makes it difficult for American companies to work in China.

Professor Dot said the Chinese economy is already facing challenges, facing Beijing “difficult options” in the coming days.

He added: “Export to other regions threatens to get rid of manufacturing in these destinations – and political leaders are unlikely to accept this. This means that China must eventually make the local demand and the Chinese family.”

The tariffs can also push China to try to build alliances with other Asian countries that were at the arrival end of definitions.

Wang Hoyao, a former member of the Chinese Communist Party, who works with the China and China Intellectual Center, called on Asian countries to “work together to go to this difficult time and fight protectionism.”

“In the end, the United States could lose all the effect and isolate itself,” he added.

Some discussions are already ongoing. China, South Korea and Japan recently held its first economic talks in five years.

They agreed to accelerate the talks for free trade – which was proposed for the first time in more than a decade.

The new definitions can give them an additional incentive to do so.

However, Beijing may face some short -term pain while talks with Washington were taking its path.

“In the end, the United States and China are heading to a negotiating table where they will try to reach a kind of major deal in a wide range of issues,” said Mr. Olson.

“This will not necessarily happen soon, and I expect things to get worse before they improve,” he added.