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The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes:
It’s all going according to plan, says the White House, and you almost have to smile at this spin in trying to sell President Trump’s partial tariff reversal this week as a triumph. The reality is that Mr. Trump is making it up as he goes, and it would help if he had an actual strategy to deal with China in particular.
There’s also the contradiction of how Mr. Trump handles other China issues. The President is doing Mr. Xi a favor by refusing to enforce a law passed by Congress to force the sale of TikTok from Chinese-controlled ByteDance. Last week he extended the deadline for a TikTok sale by another 75 days after China walked away from a looming transaction. Mr. Trump also refuses to impose sanctions on Chinese firms that buy oil from Russia and thus help Moscow’s war machine. These decisions send Mr. Xi the message that Mr. Trump isn’t serious about challenging Chinese abuses.
If Mr. Trump is serious, the best strategy would be to rally allies to the cause of fighting Chinese mercantilism. But he shows no interest in that either. He squandered his best chance to isolate China on trade in his first term by walking away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership that didn’t include Beijing. China then cut its own deal with many of the countries that the U.S. left in the cold.
Read the full editorial. Pence is promoting this latest criticism.
Does Trump Have a China Trade Strategy? If He wants Beijing to Change, He Needs the Allies He’s Tariffing.- Wall Street Journal https://t.co/u8YoYcG1XQ
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) April 11, 2025