Is Donald Trump about to start a trade war with China? | ITV News

President Donald Trump has signed an order that paves the way for imposing tariffs on as much as $60 billion worth of Chinese imports to punish Beijing for what he said is the theft of American technology and Chinese pressure on US companies to hand it over.

"It is the largest deficit of any country in the history of our world," Mr Trump said of the US-China trade imbalance, blaming it for lost American jobs.

He said his action would make the country stronger and richer.

[Jsp]

a state-run economy can overproduce without limits, if they can export their overproduction. When Nikita Khruschchev said 'we'll bury you', he meant with cheaper goods. The west did not trade much with the USSR

[stacylynn]

U.S. has everything it needs, it doesn't have to trade with other countries but it has been good for the world

[based_yeoman]

This is a shockingly biased analysis, though very cleverly written. I would encourage viewers not to take it seriously.