The Importance of Treating China as a Foe

Senior Chinese policy makers are very enthusiastic about forcing China to open up. But it's not at all clear if you start looking at the Western side, that's what they really want. Mr Trump just wants trade to be balanced, but there is important elements in the US who want to disintegrate the economy with China. That's not what they want at all. They want it to be locked out,. And another indicator is that it's becoming seriously difficult for Chinese companies to buy Western companies. Now, we say that they have obstacles to us, we sure are creating obstacles for them. So we have to decide... Do we want to open up China, which is probably in their interest?