China and the U.S., tariff pain... or hegemony?

The tactic of threatening with an extreme measure, for days after giving a truce, had already put it into practice against Mexico and Canada. Trump is re-installing China as the enemy to win. The United States (US) stood in front of China. Was that what the US president was looking for? A week after convulsing the planet with the imposition of "reciprocal tariffs" on products from 180 countries arriving in the United States, the president turned…