Trump’s Policies on Trade with China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
摘要
This chapter analyzes Donald Trump’s Indo-Pacific policy, with a focus on his trade war with China and his withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It explores the mercantilist and protectionist roots of Trump’s approach, influenced by his business background, and receptive to the ideas of the early American economic nationalists. The study assesses the impact of the Phase One Trade Agreement on the US-China trade deficit and Trump’s policy measures aimed at reindustrializing the US economy while decoupling it from China’s. This section also investigates the impact of Trump’s weaponization of trade with China on the geoeconomic and geopolitical dynamics in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.