February 8, 2017

"US President Donald Trump is making a major miscalculation by going after China. The Trump administration appears to be contemplating a wide range of economic and political sanctions－from imposing punitive tariffs and designating China as a 'currency manipulator' to embracing Taiwan and casting aside some 40 years of diplomacy framed around the one-China policy.

This strategy will backfire. It is based on the mistaken belief that a newly muscular United States has all the leverage in dealing with its presumed adversary, and that any Chinese response is hardly worth considering. Nothing could be further from the truth."

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