In Washington, the alliance of falcons and singers of "made in America"

The link established in 2016 by Trump and his team between excess of globalization and dangerous rise of China had upset the political debate. In 2020, the Chinese threat and the reindustrialisation of the country are once again at the heart of the campaign. Will Trump be able to take advantage of it despite the coronavirus tsunami?

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In 2016, Donald Trump promised to end the "carnage" of America's deindustrialization, by attacking the "unjust" rules of globalization and China's illicit trade practices. Two themes - China and the return of "made in America" ​​- which are at the top of the agenda for the Trump presidential campaign, four years later, under the influence of the coronavirus. The humiliating discovery of the country's dependence on Beijing, particularly in terms of drugs, combined with the opaque management of the virus crisis by Beijing, and the aggressiveness of its current diplomacy (which has notably consisted in accuse the americans

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