Why Trump will laugh off China's trade win

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Why Trump will laugh off China's trade win | Stephen Bartholomeusz

China has won a "victory" over the US in their bitter trade conflict, with the World Trade Organisation ruling that the Trump administration violated international regulations with last year's tariff war on China. At a practical level, though, it changes nothing.

The WTO is in the final phase of choosing a new director-general charged with designing and implementing those reforms, a critical moment for the future of multilateralism in trade and for the organisation that has helped increase market access, protect intellectual property, reduce protection and provide a framework of rules for international trade since it was formed in 1995.

It's partly a product of the dollar's reserve currency status but also of a dearth of US savings. The deficits enable Americans to live beyond their means. Smaller deficits would necessarily mean lower standards of living.The US trade deficit today is higher than it was when he took office. The July deficit was the highest in 12 years. China's share of global trade has increased, not decreased.

The more sophisticated trade hawks in the administration saw the trade war as a way to punish China for what they regard as unfair trade practices and the forced transfer and even outright theft of US technology. It was also seen as a way of undermining China's economic and geopolitical ambitions and its ability to challenge US supremacy.

The trade conflict with China isn't, of course, a simple trade war. The motivations have evolved from Trump's fixation with trade deficits into a far broader and more complex assault on China's aspirations and a defence of US hegemony. It's more Cold War than trade war.

 

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