This Is the Trade Conflict Xi Jinping Has Been Waiting For

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Things got worse after the emergence of Covid, which ground global trade to a halt and exposed how much the United States, and the rest of the world, needed China for everything from surgical masks to pain medicines.
56% : American leaders used to say that if China expanded its economic links to the West, it would gradually move toward political liberalization and a full embrace of free markets.
55% : It is a reversal of what Xi has been so irritated about, which is that China was so dependent on the West," said Kirsten Asdal, a former intelligence adviser at the U.S. Department of Defense who now heads a China-focused consultancy firm, Asdal Advisory.
55% : The focus on critical technologies and economic self-reliance has worsened frictions with China's trading partners, and it comes at a cost to many Chinese households.
53% : Mr. Xi doubled down on that model, directing more capital to state-owned enterprises and banks to ensure the Communist Party had even more say over the economy's direction.
42% : It could have stopped subsidizing factories and state-owned companies that made steel and solar panels so cheaply that many American manufacturers went out of business.
41% : In April 2020, long before President Trump launched a trade war that would shake the global economy, China's top leader held a meeting with senior Communist Party officials and laid out his vision for turning the tables on the United States in a confrontation.

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