US President Donald Trump has threatened China with a 104 per cent tariff, if Beijing doesn’t drop its 34 per cent tariff on US goods.
President Trump announced the plan on social media, as stock markets across the world continued to plummet.
What’s next?
Beijing has not yet commented on the president’s threat.
Yeah there is no doubt that any serious intelligence service will have been all over Trump and anybody connected to him from 2020 onwards. Inviting randoms into signal groups, leaving classified documents piled up out in the open, are very public evidence of what will have been rampant private weakness, that will have been exploited everywhere, by everyone. And so yes the likes of China will have known exactly what was coming in Trump 2 as soon as these plans were formed. Probably before Trump did.