Instead, President Trump is working to stop the de industrialization of America incentives a renaissance in American manufacturing
Our so called “Trade Partners” are actually countries with export driven economies highly dependent upon maintaining huge trade surpluses with the US.
Any attempts by these countries to “retaliate” with conventional wisdom trade sanctions actually work to accomplish Trump's goals.
There will be some pain as we move back to a higher wage, high skill manufacturing base from it's current Obama Era low wage, unskilled gig jobs economy floated by cheap imported junk from China and cheap labor from exploited, underground economy illegal alien labor.
Yes this is not some direct military-combative WWIII, but strikes at the root of what the real competition with China is about and it’s fair game.
“from it’s current Obama Era low wage,”
Obama effed up a lot of stuff.
But it’s REPUBLICANS in Congress that own this one.