Trump’s Global Economic Strategy Isolates China and Reshapes Trade Dynamics

Don­ald Trump is orches­trat­ing a bold glob­al eco­nom­ic and diplo­mat­ic strat­e­gy, posi­tion­ing the U.S. advan­ta­geous­ly against Chi­na. Through Steve Witkoff’s third meet­ing with Putin and begins talks with Iran­ian lead­ers, Trump is nor­mal­iz­ing rela­tions and dri­ving a wedge between Chi­na and Rus­sia. China’s 125% tar­iff hike is dis­missed as inef­fec­tive since the U.S. doesn’t heav­i­ly export to Chi­na, and threats to halt U.S. soy­bean pur­chas­es are coun­tered by Trump’s tar­iff lever­age, poten­tial­ly tar­get­ing coun­ties that work with Chi­na. The EU’s tar­iffs on Chi­nese goods, par­tic­u­lar­ly EVs, fur­ther con­strain Chi­na, with advi­sor Scott Bessent warn­ing the EU against align­ing with Chi­na.

Trump’s team is cred­it­ed with reorder­ing glob­al trade, entic­ing com­pa­nies to strike deals with the U.S., and revi­tal­iz­ing Amer­i­can man­u­fac­tur­ing. A bud­get rec­on­cil­i­a­tion plan, requir­ing only 51 Sen­ate votes, is advanc­ing to sup­port these goals. China’s intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty theft and revis­its its 1999–2001 WTO entry, backed by Pres­i­dents G.H. Bush and Clin­ton, as a lop­sided deal favor­ing Chi­na. Media con­cerns about bud­get costs and ris­ing debt inter­est are framed as attempts to under­mine Trump’s impend­ing suc­cess­es, with the nar­ra­tive empha­siz­ing his con­trol over glob­al eco­nom­ics and China’s iso­la­tion.

• Trump has Chi­na in a nego­ti­at­ing posi­tion with Tai­wan and sep­a­rat­ing Chi­na and Rus­sia. Witkoff is expect­ed to meet with Putin today for the third time. The EU has been putting tar­iffs on Chi­na for a long time. Trump has good peo­ple that are sur­round­ing him. Scott Bessent says the EU would cut its own throat by piv­ot­ing to Chi­na. Trump is run­ning the world right now. If there was a pic­ture Trump would be in the front row, cen­ter. Talks with Witkoff and top lev­el lead­ers in Iran on Sat­ur­day. Trump is reorder­ing the world. We have a bud­get on rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and it only takes 51 votes. The sen­ate can pass it with 51 votes. We are going to bring back man­u­fac­tur­ing. Chang­ing the tar­iffs around the world. All the com­pa­nies want to make deals with the US. 
• Chi­na raised their tar­iffs to 125%, big deal we aren’t ship­ping to chi­na. Chi­na is claim­ing they are going to make deals and stop buy­ing soy­beans from our farm­ers. Chi­na is in a box. Trump is hold­ing every card. If Chi­na buys soy­beans from Brazil, Trump will add more tar­iffs. It is not only work­ing with us but not work­ing with Chi­na. Trump is sep­a­rat­ing Chi­na and Rus­sia. Trump is iso­lat­ing Chi­na. 
• Chi­na steals our intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty. They don’t have to research and devel­op and then they man­u­fac­ture and sell it back to us. 
• Chi­na’s entry into the WTO was a cul­mi­na­tion of a lengthy nego­ti­a­tion process, with a key agree­ment signed in 1999 the US and Chi­na signed a bilat­er­al agree­ment on Nov 15, 1999 paving the way for Chi­na to offi­cial­ly join on Decem­ber 11, 2001. GHBush was ambas­sador to Chi­na. Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­to in 2000 pushed Con­gress to approve the US Chi­na trade agree­ment and China’s acces­sion to the WTO, say­ing that more trade with Chi­na would advance America’s eco­nom­ic inter­ests. Eco­nom­i­cal­ly this agree­ment is the equiv­a­lent of a one-way street. 
• Sen­ate advances bud­get frame­work. And now the media wants to know how it would be paid for, they are lay­ing the ground­work because we are about to see this mas­sive suc­cess for Trump’s plan. They are lay­ing the ground­work that Trump is com­ing off the ledge. NOw all of a sud­den they are wor­ried that the debt inter­est is high­er than the mil­i­tary spend­ing.