China-us Trade War about whose economics is more resilient: leading Chinese scholar

China has a competition of “economic resilience” with the United States, which means that it must double in strengthening domestic industrial capacity, according to Zheng Yongnian, a prominent Chinese political scientist and government adviser.

In one interview With domestic media that were published on Wednesday, Zheng accused the US of ‘internationalizing its domestic problems’ of inequality, populism and polarization. “The United States have benefited the most from globalization, but have not managed the distribution of income properly. This is their own administrative problem, not China’s problem,” he said.

In response to the escalating trade war, China must focus on strengthening production and the real economy to increase economic resilience. “Only in this way can we stay unusual in our long -term competition with the US,” he said.

The interview is widely shared on Chinese social media, with more than 100,000 views on WeChat. Zheng’s call for larger self -supply reflects the rally cry of “Fights to the end“That has become viral in the tightly controlled media discourse of China.

American rates for Chinese import are currently 125 percent after the announcement of President Donald Trump on April 9. In a social media post, Trump gave a 90-day break of “mutual rates” for dozens of countries, except for China, who continued his rate percentage. In the meantime, China’s 84 percent retribution rates at the entry of the US came into force on 10 April.

The same day, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Lin Jian said that the United States uses rates as a ‘weapon’ and seriously damage the global economic order.

Zheng is one of China’s most controversial public intellectuals that is known to have the ear of Chinese officials. Currently, the dean of the School of Public Policy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, the book “The China Model: Experience and Challenges” by Zheng is a designated textbook of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China.

In the past few days, Zheng has publicly convicted Trump’s plan to re -industry the United States as ‘unfeasible’ and the rates as ‘selfish’. However, he has also called for vigilance among Chinese leaders against underestimating the power of the US

“The vitality of the US has never been to its government, but rather in its society and capital,” the professor wrote in one commentary Published on April 7, after the first announcement of Trump van Rates on 2 April, but before the latest escalations. Zheng noted that the efforts of the Trump’s efforts to deregulate and reduce the size of federal bureaucracy, have the potential to reform American society, despite the skepticism of many American elites.

‘In fact the [mainstream U.S.] Economic Community has a great responsibility for the current state of the US economy, “he wrote, suggesting that Chinese companies and policy makers learned the lessons of Trump’s first presidential term faster than their American counterparts.

“Today, neo -liberal economic thinking has no grip in China.”

While he brags that few countries can be compared to China in terms of resilience, the professor, who was trained at Beijing University and Princeton University, nevertheless focused on Chinese nationalists who already explain the victory.

“Although many people understand that there are no winners in trade wars or tariff wars, only losers, there are still a large number of people in their own country, especially on social media, who feel that we have already won.”

“This is very dangerous because it would mean that the West confuses us … which could ultimately cause us to make strategic mistakes,” he wrote. Zheng warned Chinese people not to give much stock in recent coverage by Western points of sale such as such as such as The New York Times And The economist This is part of the actions of Trump as for the benefit of China at the expense of the United States.

“People must have a clear understanding of this – Trump will no longer make China great. Only we can make our country great again.”

Although it is a well-known defender of the ‘China model’, Zheng has earlier marked The connections between the growth of nationalism in Asia and the increased probability of conflicts in the region, while he does not blame the Chinese government.

In his last comment, he warned that the consequences of the escalating trade war should be managed to prevent directly conflict between the United States and China, especially if Trump’s rates do not deliver his desired results.