This article analyzes the potential impact of Donald Trump's return to power on US-China relations, particularly focusing on the looming threat of tariffs and the Year of the Snake in Chinese zodiac traditions.
What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt.This week we saw the peak of the Lunar New Year travel rush across China, the world’s largest annual mass movement of people, as millions criss-crossed the country to be with family and friends.
Those born in the Year of the Snake are said to be wise and charming, but also mysterious and cunning. We are on the cusp of Trump’s threatened February 1 tariff deadline, with little certainty about whether he will follow through on it. The latest version of the threat is an additional 10 per cent tariff on Chinese goods as punishment for China’s role in the fentanyl trade as the major manufacturer of precursor chemicals for the drug.
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