{"id":74528,"date":"2026-06-06T06:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/on-china-trump-picked-the-right-battle-but-the-wrong-strategy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T06:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:55:31","slug":"on-china-trump-picked-the-right-battle-but-the-wrong-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/on-china-trump-picked-the-right-battle-but-the-wrong-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"On China, Trump picked the right battle but the wrong strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long trade war looms. Trump\u2019s scattershot protectionism, chaotic tariffs and belligerence against our natural allies guarantees that US trade policy will remain a hot mess<\/p>\n<p>We are in for a long trade war.<\/p>\n<p>In the months since \u201cLiberation Day\u201d last year, when Donald Trump let loose a volley of tariffs against imports from everywhere, countries have rushed to build new relationships in the hope of maybe circumventing the US to protect the global trading system.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jun\/06\/us-china-trump-trade-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long trade war looms. Trump\u2019s scattershot protectionism, chaotic tariffs and belligerence against our natural allies guarantees that US trade policy will remain a hot mess We are in for a long trade war. In the months since \u201cLiberation Day\u201d last year, when Donald Trump let loose a volley of tariffs against imports from everywhere, &#8230; <a title=\"On China, Trump picked the right battle but the wrong strategy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/on-china-trump-picked-the-right-battle-but-the-wrong-strategy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about On China, Trump picked the right battle but the wrong strategy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}