Trump Starts War With China Over 'Economic Aggression'

Source: Newsweek Magazine




BY MARIA PEREZ ON 12/16/17 AT 2:11 PM

President Donald Trump will accuse China of engaging in “economic aggression” on Monday during the release of his national security strategy.

The accusation is a strong sign that Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping have hit a rocky bump in their relationship. This is because Trump has become frustrated with Jinping for being unable to use their good rapport to get Beijing to address Trump's trade concerns, the Financial Times reported.

The national security strategy is a formal document produced by every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan. Trump would propose a much stronger stance on China than the previous administrations. The unveiling of the document comes just a month after Trump and Jinping met in China, and eight months after the two had met at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

Trump severely reprimanded China repeatedly on the campaign trail but has taken a less aggressive stance since his trip to Mar-a-Lago with Jinping. This is partly because the U.S thinks China could put pressure on North Korea to fix the nuclear war crisis. But, Trump has become a lot less patient in the past few months and has become more irritated on the lack of progress on the U.S. trade deficit with China.

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