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Focus: US Democratic Party presidential candidate, trade problem and dilemma in China

2019-09-13T05:43:35.321Z


[Washington, 9th Reuters]-The negative effects of US trump on the US economy as a result of US trade war on China continues to increase. For this reason, people who contend for the nomination of opposition parties and Democrats in the 2020 presidential election,


[Washington, 9th Reuters]-The negative effects of US trump on the US economy as a result of US trade war on China continues to increase. For this reason, people who are fighting for the nomination of the opposition and Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential election seem to have a great stage that can spoil the biggest appeal of Mr. Trump's re-election of “making the US economy great again” appear.

However, at the moment, the Democratic Party has not been able to attack very effectively.

Most of the 20 people aiming for nominations criticize that Mr. Trump is hurting farmers, consumers, and businesses through tariffs with China, but there is a unified opinion on what alternatives to do Absent.

As a result, the international financial market has been shaken, rice consumers face rising prices of imported goods from China, and farmers are losing the largest export market. It's like a sprinkled blade, and sometimes it's inconclusive.

Jared Bernstein, chief economic adviser during the vice-president of Joe Biden, who is currently the most prominent in the fight for nominations, said, “It's a difficult problem. What's difficult is a series of fairly devastating policies and distances in the Trump administration. "I have to show that I am not weak in China," he explained.

Mr. Trump and his colleagues argue that his strong attitude toward China does not leave the support base apart, but rather energizes it. However, as a result of China's retaliation in the trade war, farmers and manufacturers such as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, who are favored by the ruling and opposition parties, have suffered for two years, and Trump's strategy against China has been re-elected. It seems that it has become a bigger risk.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party has always been critical of China in parliament and has taken the position that the US economy and security are threatened. So the people who ran for the presidential election are struggling to come up with their own hard measures against China while avoiding being considered the same method as Trump.

The trade policy for China remains the same, but the differences between the moderate and radical groups within the Democratic Party are also highlighted. For example, Pete Buttagej, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and former House of Representatives Beto Oruk, are trying to move to abolish the tariffs introduced by Trump. On the contrary, Senator Bernie Sanders, a radicalist, argues that tariffs are an effective weapon to surrender China, and the trade policy presented by Senator Elizabeth Warren is perceived as protective as Mr. Trump.

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Yet most of the people who want to nominate Democratic presidential candidates no matter what their ideology is, they are not cautious about China.

After all, in a poll conducted in August by the Pew Research Center, the proportion of Americans with negative sentiment in China was 60%, up from 47% last year. There is evidence that Mr. Trump's Chinese strike is effective.

In fact, the driving force that Mr. Trump suddenly emerged in the 2016 presidential election was that he showed hostility to China and promised a confrontation. In addition, his sympathy for globalization and free trade drew the sympathy of many voters who saw the factory job cease in the US and the local economy stagnated.

In doing so, Trump has taken the allegations that Sanders, Warren, and other progressives have long advocated that globalization is fattening multinational corporations at the expense of US workers.

Bernstein also pointed out that "Trump has taken all of his views into his own medicine for this problem."

“There is no doubt that the people are waiting for the anti-Chinese message, but the message (from the Democratic Party) must be skillful and strategic.” I will give the initiative to Mr. Trump. " In this regard, it is not easy for Democratic nominees to differentiate, and Mr. Sanders and Warren ’s message about trade issues is not considered as a general voter, unlike Mr. Trump.

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Mr. Biden is one of the candidates trying to make the right path, and it is probably the most promising in the business world in terms of restoring the pre-Trump administration.

However, Mr. Biden has been defensive on this issue since he was criticized by Mr. Trump and Mr. Saunders earlier this year for denying China's economic threat.

He then vowed to bring allies together to curb China's anti-competitive practices and sympathized with the rice farmers who lost their customers, but whether or not to remove all the duties of the Trump administration. I have not stated it. The Biden faction did not answer Reuters' questions, and the spokesman said, “We are rigorously and skillfully responding to China in a way that never sacrifices US key industries such as agriculture and manufacturing.”

The Trump faction has long seen Mr. Biden having a weak trade problem. This is because Mr. Biden voted for the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement during his senator period and supported the normalization of trade with China. He also proposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as Vice President. TPP is a framework aimed at curbing the expansion of China's power, but the Democratic radicals and unions oppose it, and Mr. Trump decided to leave after taking office.

But Tony Flat, a senior government officer in the George W. Bush administration, emphasizes that Biden should take advantage of public opinion polls to help the majority of Americans favor free trade agreements. . In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in June, 65% of the people agreed with free trade agreements with other countries.

According to Mr. Flat, Mr. Biden is on a different route than both Mr. Trump and the Democratic radicals, and can appeal to voters in the suburbs of cities who support world trade and are eager for international stability. “In terms of the number of voters, there are more residents in the suburbs than union members. Mr. Biden has a great opportunity.

(James Oliphant reporter)

Source: asahi

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