Trump's plan to isolate China

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : After years of aligning more closely with the United States on China over concerns about national security and over alleged Chinese industrial oversupply, some U.S. allies in Europe are pushing back against Washington and even signaling they're considering a relative thaw in trade relations with China.
46% : Whether now or later, I suspect some, though not all, important countries from a trans-shipment and investment standpoint, will play along with Trump," Magnus said.
45% : Since Trump launched the trade war against China during his first term, the U.S. has sought to decrease its reliance on the manufacturing powerhouse, which has considerable control over key supply chains from pharmaceuticals to minerals critical to defense technologies as well as consumer goods.
39% : While many countries friendly to the United States hope to reduce reliance on trade with China, they may not trust Trump not to reach his own bilateral deal with Beijing and leave them in the lurch "especially, as he so often reminds the world, how much he likes and respects Xi Jinping," King added.
32% : Trump says the move is necessary to end "unfair" duties on American products, narrow trade deficits, and bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Newsweek reached out to the White House and Chinese Foreign Ministry with emailed requests for comment.
29% : China was the exception, hitting back with its own hefty tariffs and prompting Trump to announce a further tit-for-tat hike.
27% : "The United States already missed a great chance to help form an anti-PRC [People's Republic of China] trade coalition when it left the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2017," Sean King, Asia scholar and senior vice president at Park Strategies, told Newsweek, referring to a trade group Trump quit shortly after taking office.
19% : "Trump is calling their bluff, in effect asking them to make their choices.

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