Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said he believes part of President Donald Trump’s endgame strategy through his reciprocal tariffs trade plan is to build a “global coalition” against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
On April 2, deemed by the Trump administration as “Liberation Day,” Trump unveiled his trade plan, which included the U.S. charging 10 percent baseline tariffs on nearly all goods imported from other countries, reciprocal tariffs on nearly 90 countries that have the highest trade deficits with the U.S., and a 25 percent tax on all imported vehicles.
Last week, as nations worldwide expressed interest in negotiating with the U.S. for fairer trade deals, Trump issued a 90-day pause on tariffs for all countries except China, which, as of now, has a base tariff rate of 145 percent.
Boyle, who recently returned back to the U.S. after traveling to Greece and interviewing the country’s prime minister, said Trump’s trade plans are part of a strategic geopolitical endgame to isolate and weaken the CCP on the global stage.
“President Trump is abundantly clear he’s focused on China. That’s where the real threat is,” Boyle explained on Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
“I think what’s going on here is that the president is putting together a global coalition against the Chinese Communist Party, and sometimes our European friends and partners need to be dragged kicking and screaming to the fight. With that being said, they are ready to join the United States, I think, based on what we’re seeing from European leaders in response to all of this,” Boyle added.
Noting how the prime minister of Greece said he believes the U.S. and European Union will eventually reach a trade deal, Boyle said he further believes Trump will reach a deal in the near future with many allies, which would isolate China economically and politically as the nations are forced to the negotiating table to align more with the U.S. in terms of a geopolitical rebalance and encouraged to rethink their dependencies on the CCP.
“I imagine the United States and the European Union will reach an agreement. I imagine that the U.S. and Japan will reach an agreement. I imagine the U.S. and India will reach an agreement and as will many of these other countries. What’s going to happen is that all of this stuff is going to allow President Trump to really bring the heat down on the Chinese Communist Party,” Boyle explained.
“Sometimes, the rest of the world has to be dragged kicking and screaming, but I do think the vast majority of the world is ready to sign up and join with the United States in this fight,” Boyle added.
Regarding a potential deal between the U.S. and China, Boyle said he believes there will “eventually” be a “now world-type” deal that delegitimizes the CCP on the world stage.
“President Trump has said that he would make a deal with China, and I think we’ll see that eventually, but the new world that we are going to see here is not going to be one in which the Belt and Road Initiative and other death diplomacy actions by the Chinese Communist Party are acceptable,” Boyle said.
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