{"id":68782,"date":"2019-08-23T11:55:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T11:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=68782"},"modified":"2019-08-23T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T11:55:15","slug":"trump-says-hes-the-chosen-one-to-take-on-china-over-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/trump-says-hes-the-chosen-one-to-take-on-china-over-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he\u2019s the \u2018chosen one\u2019 to take on China over trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he\u2019s the \u201cchosen one\u201d to wage a trade war with China and asserted that he\u2019s winning. \u201cThis is a trade war that should have taken place a long time ago,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House. He added: \u201cSomebody had to do it. I am the chosen one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has called looming U.S. tariffs a violation of accords reached by Trump and Xi Jinping, vowing retaliation.Tensions between the world\u2019s two biggest economies rose significantly this month after Trump said he would tariff another $300 billion of Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to halt U.S. agricultural purchases and allow the yuan to weaken. Top negotiators from the two countries talked over phone last week, and the U.S. delayed some tariffs by splitting the $300 billion list of Chinese products into two separate ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlthough the U.S. will delay tariffs on some Chinese goods, any new tariffs from America will unilaterally escalate the trade tensions,\u201d China\u2019s Ministry of Commerce Spokesman Gao Feng said in a press conference on Thursday. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he\u2019s the \u201cchosen one\u201d to wage a trade war with China and asserted that he\u2019s winning. \u201cThis is a trade war that should have taken place a long time ago,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House. He added: \u201cSomebody had to do it. I am the chosen one.\u201d [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68785,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68782\/revisions\/68785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}