According to Xinhua News Agency, former U.S. ** Trump won the recent meeting of the Republican party in the state of Huada. This is his third consecutive victory since the start of the Republican primary for the 2024 elections in the United States. A few days ago, Trump's challenger in the Republican Party, Nikki Haley, the former U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, participated in a "Republican primary" in the state that was not recognized by the Nevada Republican Party, so he was banned from participating in the party's caucus meeting recently. U.S. incumbent Biden leads the Democratic race, and his party challenger is currently only Congressman Dean Phillips.
But the primary was legislated by the Democratic-led Nevada legislature, which was boycotted by the state's Republicans. The former ** Trump of the United States was absent, and his name was not on the ballot. However, Haley, Trump's only challenger in the party and former U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, participated in the primary and did not win. The real-time vote count showed that more than 60 percent of Republican voters voted for the "non-elector" option. Some U.S. ** believe that this puts Haley in an "embarrassing" situation and deals a blow to her campaign. Republicans in Nevada have previously said they prefer to distribute the state's party delegates through caucuses.
According to the Associated Press, in the case of 86% of the votes, it is as high as 62Nine percent of Republican voters voted for "none of the above candidates," while Haley received just 30 percent of the vote8 percent, meaning she became the first bipartisan candidate to "lose" to the option since the state introduced the "none of the above" option in 1975. According to the Associated Press and others, this is an "embarrassing failure" for Haley, as she has been trying to position herself as a candidate who can really stand up to Trump.
It is foreseeable that this year, if nothing else, the decisive battle will finally unfold between Biden and Trump. Who will emerge victorious, it is unknown. However, no matter who is elected, Sino-US relations cannot be bypassed. If Trump is elected, how will he treat China-US relations and the Taiwan Strait issue? A reporter recently asked Trump whether if he was elected, would he prevent Chinese mainland from "attacking Taiwan"? Trump said that he would not speak his mind now, so as not to affect the next negotiations between him and the Chinese side, Trump stressed, "The Chinese side knows what I will do, and we know my position, and we will not have a problem." According to Bloomberg and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, Trump gave an interview to Fox News in the United States, threatening to impose tariffs of at least 60% on all Chinese goods if he wins. But he also said that this is not a "dispute" and that he wants to "live in peace" with China. Trump's above statement is a response to a recent report by the Washington Post. According to the report, Trump is considering imposing a uniform tariff of 60% on Chinese imports, so financial practitioners are preparing for the market turmoil that may be triggered after Trump's re-election.
Judging from Trump's statement, the so-called desire to impose tariffs on Chinese goods of at least 60%, but at the same time not wanting to engage in a "** dispute" with China, is obviously self-contradictory. China and the United States are essentially a mutually beneficial and win-win thing, and the two sides are bound by various regulations of the World Organization. As one of the main founders of the world's leading organizations, the United States has taken the lead in violating the WTO's rules on freedom among countries, artificially erecting barriers and imposing tariffs on Chinese products, which obviously violates the principle of freedom and harms China's interests.
Recently, regarding Biden's claim that maintaining the tariff policy on China is of so-called "strategic significance" to revive the U.S. manufacturing industry, Jay Timmons, president of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the largest manufacturing industry association in the United States, expressed clear opposition to this at an event in Washington, saying that the tariff policy is actually counterproductive and is harming the U.S. manufacturing industry, and warned the U.S. that it should not impose more import tariffs on Chinese products in the future. Talking about the former US ** Trump recently threatened to continue to increase tariffs on China if he returned to the White House, Timmons bluntly said: "If this shot is fired, it will be counterattacked." ”
However, the current round of the U.S. ** election is still unclear, so there is no need to take Trump's "advance notice" to heart. After all, facts have repeatedly proven that it is impossible to reduce the deficit by imposing high tariffs on China or the so-called "decoupling from China". If in high-end manufacturing, the United States can also rely on the monopoly position of technology first-mover to suppress China for a short time, then in the more daily world, the more the United States increases the pressure on China, the more violent the backlash will be, because neither the United States itself nor its allies can separate China from the global manufacturing system.
Of course, at a critical moment in the United States, Trump made such a move, obviously for his own election considerations, and it was just a campaign strategy to fool voters. Judging from the current trend, the pattern of the United States in 2024 is basically decided, and there is a high probability that Trump and Biden will fight each other again, so who will have a greater advantage in winning the election? Let's wait and see.
According to China Youth Daily, in response to US media reports that former Trump discussed the possibility of imposing a 60% unified tariff on all Chinese imports with his advisers, Chinese spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference this afternoon: "We do not comment on unconfirmed news. Wang Wenbin pointed out that the essence of China-US economic and trade relations is mutual benefit and win-win results, and maintaining the healthy and stable development of China-US economic and trade relations is in line with the fundamental interests of the two countries and peoples, and is also conducive to global economic growth.
According to a report by China Youth Daily, the United States has entered an election year this year, and regarding the candidates of the United States and their policies toward China, Chinese spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference this afternoon that the United States is an internal affair of the United States, and China has always adhered to the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries and non-interference in the United States. Wang Wenbin responded that no matter who is elected as the next U.S. leader, China hopes that the U.S. side can work with China in the same direction and promote the healthy, stable and sustainable development of China-US relations in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, so as to better benefit the two countries and the world. At the same time, China will continue to firmly safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests.