Bruegel — China’s view of the trade war has changed—and so has its strategy

China’s recognition of the much more structural features of the U.S.-led trade war has also brought about a drastic change in its response to the U.S.

China has shifted from a tit-for-tat tactic based on retaliatory measures on trade to a three-pole strategy: sustaining domestic growth at any cost, finding alliances externally, and accelerating China’s upgrade of its technology capacity.…

All in all, China’s realization of the structural nature of its competition with the U.S. has led the Chinese authorities to a more strategic, rather than tactical, response to the U.S. containment push, which has characterized Sino-American bilateral relations since the beginning of the year.…

The Chinese response is now geared to the realization that China is the US crosshairs, and that the US is committed to "containing" China and ultimately toward taking China down and turning it into a colony of the empire. The response will be all out.

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China’s view of the trade war has changed—and so has its strategy