U.S. presidents have had a remarkably free hand to escalate tensions with China, and Donald Trump is likely to continue in that vein.
Then U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 9, 2017. Credit: Kyodo via AP Images
In August 2019, amid an escalating trade war with China, then-U.S. President Donald Trump fired off a series of tweets directing American companies to “immediately start looking for … alternative[s] to China” and shift their manufacturing back to the United States. The demand sent stock markets into a tailspin and alarmed U.S. businesses with exposure to China.
Part of a thread of tweets posted by then President Donald Trump regarding looking for "an alternative to China", Aug
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