Trump is ‘making is up as he goes ,” hurting US and allies, charges Wall Street Journal

Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Donald Trump has blazed into another critical editorial, who this time accused him of “making it up as he went”, with his tariff decisions that injured the United States and his allies.

“You have to smile almost” if the president claims the shuddering economy is going to plan “, the editors mocked Thursday.

The ‘reality is that Mr. Trump makes it up as he goes, and it would help if he had a real strategy to go with China, ‘the newspaper added.

Instead, Trump is ready to punish the allies he needs for a coherent China strategy. He imposed rates on Canada and Mexico and insulted the Canadian national pride. He hit Japan with 24 percent rates, South Korea by 25 percent, and Europe by 20 percent. He hit Vietnam by 46 percent. Although the tree in the country’s exports, because his first-term Tariffies came, it came to China. The magazine noted.

He imposed a 145 percent tariff on products from China, while interrupting most of his other global rates for 90 days, the newspaper acknowledged.

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But at the same time, Trump does the Chinese President Xi Jinping “a favor by refusing to enforce a law approved by Congress” in which the sale of Tiktok is claimed by the Chinese controlled owner’s bite dance, the newspaper argued. Last week he extended the deadline for a tapping sale with another 75 days after China left “from a nearby agreement, The magazine added.

Trump also refuses to set up sanctions against Chinese firms that buy oil from Russia and thus help Moscow’s war machine, notes the newspaper.

Trump’s “ad hoc, distributed tariff policy will not solve” the imbalance in China, The magazine added. “So far, he injures his own case and lands more than he hurts the Chinese Communist Party.”