US officials admit to misjudging Trump, thinking China would be the first to 'surrender'

Time：2025-04-24

Some Trump administration officials have privately stated that they admit they were unable to accurately predict China's reaction. Given the huge scale of China's exports to the United States, Trump seemed to have thought that China would be one of the first countries to "request (tariff) exemptions".
Nicholas Mulder, an economic historian at Cornell University in the United States, believes that compared to Trump's first provocation of the tariff dispute in 2017, China is more prepared this time. Now, China has stronger resilience and is more capable of dealing with this escalating trade war.


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