{"id":294598,"date":"2025-05-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=294598"},"modified":"2025-05-12T02:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T01:40:20","slug":"are-trumps-tariffs-actually-hurting-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/05\/are-trumps-tariffs-actually-hurting-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Trump\u2019s Tariffs Actually Hurting China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Peter Koenig<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1803312425ydp8a54e76cyiv5369343492default-style\"><em>Is anybody surprised that President Trump is seemingly turning out quite differently from what he promised during his campaign?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1803312425ydp8a54e76cyiv5369343492default-style\">Admittedly, I am surprised. Unless there is something drastically changing in his policies \u2014militarily, domestically and internationally\u2014 we, the world, may be in for an unpleasant rollercoaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1803312425ydp8a54e76cyiv5369343492default-style\">Tariffs are punishment of the world, especially aiming at China and to some extent also at Europe. Or just a game?<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1803312425ydp8a54e76cyiv5369343492default-style\">Trump is a deal-maker, a gambler of sorts. Already more than 70 nations have requested \u201cnegotiating\u201d the tariffs, that\u2019s the \u201cdeal-making\u201d Mr. Trump loves so much. At the same time, he believes in intimidating and dominating the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1803312425ydp8a54e76cyiv5369343492default-style\">But does he really? Who are his economic advisers? Who are the winners and losers in this gamble?<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1803312425ydp8a54e76cyiv5369343492default-style\">Obviously, the country he wants to punish most is China. But China plays along, she plays the same gamble and just upped the ante of import duties for US goods and services to 125%; the same measure that Trump a day before announced would be the import duties for goods from China. That is the end of the escalation, said China. No higher for them \u201c<em>Les Jeux sont fats,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in casino language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1803312425ydp8a54e76cyiv5369343492default-style\">The thing is: the US needs China much more than China needs the US \u2014a tremendous price increase in consumer goods (all made in China) may result in US inflation and unemployment, in\u00a0 factory and shop closures. While China has already for years re-oriented her market to Asia and especially the BRICS and their extension, the Global South.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author: Peter Koenig<\/strong> is a macroeconomist and geopolitical analyst. He worked for more than 30 years with the World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC). He is a Research Associate of Global Research (GR) and is an Associate of the Jos\u00e9 Marti Institute, Havana, Cuba. Fields of concentration were macroeconomics, water resources, environment\/environmental health, water in humanitarian and crisis situations. He is familiar with the Washington Consensus, economic reforms, so-called structural adjustments, dollarization, as well as de-dollarization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1803312425ydp8a54e76cyiv5369343492default-style\">Source: \u00a0Global Research<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Koenig Is anybody surprised that President Trump is seemingly turning out quite differently from what he promised during his campaign? Admittedly, I am surprised. Unless there is something drastically changing in his policies \u2014militarily, domestically and internationally\u2014 we, the world, may be in for an unpleasant rollercoaster. Tariffs are punishment of the world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":295105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[232,244,120,1126,260,70],"class_list":["post-294598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brics","tag-capitalism","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-hegemony","tag-history","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295107,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294598\/revisions\/295107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}