Leave it to Wall Street and Soros’s agent in the cabinet, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, to repackage Joe Biden’s royal failure at “isolating Russia,” and sell it to President Trump as a brilliant strategy to win the tariff war globally, by “isolating China.” The “strategy” (if you can call it that) was laid out in an April 15 exclusive by the Wall Street Journal, based, as usual, on “people with knowledge of the conversations.”
Here’s the grand strategy:
“The idea is to extract commitments from U.S. trading partners to isolate China’s economy in exchange for reductions in trade and tariff barriers imposed by the White House. U.S. officials plan to use negotiations with more than 70 nations to ask them to disallow China to ship goods through their countries, prevent Chinese firms from locating in their territories to avoid U.S. tariffs, and not absorb China’s cheap industrial goods into their economies.
“Those measures are meant to put a dent in China’s already rickety economy and force Beijing to the negotiating table with less leverage ahead of potential talks between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.”
Right there you know this will backfire against the United States—and make a fool out of us, in the process. The “strategy” has two fatal flaws: It assumes that the majority of the world’s nations still believe they have no options but to bow to U.S. blackmail, and it assumes that China’s economy is “already rickety.” Neither assumption has anything to do with reality.
According to the Wall Street outlet, the lead “brain” behind the strategy is Bessent, who is said to have “pitched the idea to Trump during an April 6 meeting at Mar-a-Lago,” arguing “that extracting concessions from U.S. trading partners could prevent Beijing and its companies from avoiding U.S. tariffs, export controls and other economic measures…. The tactic is part of a strategy being pushed by Bessent to isolate the Chinese economy that has gained traction among Trump officials recently.
“Debates over the scope and severity of U.S. tariffs are ongoing, but officials largely appear to agree with Bessent’s China plan,” according to this report. “It involves cutting China off from the U.S. economy with tariffs and potentially even cutting Chinese stocks out of U.S. exchanges.”
The Journal cites Trump’s statement, read by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on April 15, that “the ball is in China’s court. China needs to make a deal with us. We don’t have to make a deal with them. China wants what we have … the American consumer,” as evidence that Trump is in no hurry to negotiate with China.
