纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英How Bidens Trade War With China Differs From Trumps
May 15, 2024 2 min 380 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是，作者认为拜登政府对中国的贸易战与特朗普时期有不同，拜登更注重多边主义，联合盟友共同对中国施压，且强调自身政策目标是保护美国工人和企业利益，而非仅仅缩减贸易逆差。但实际上，拜登政府延续了特朗普时期的对华强硬政策，仍采用关税武器，并扩大了科技和战略领域的对立。作者认为拜登政府应改变策略，与中国进行谈判，减少关税，并寻求在其他领域的合作。 评论：该报道试图强调拜登政府的对华贸易政策与特朗普时期不同，具有多边主义色彩，但实际上，报道也承认拜登政府延续了特朗普时期的对华强硬路线，在科技战略领域加大了限制中国发展的力度，这体现了美国两党的一贯思维试图通过限制中国来维持自身霸权。报道中虽有减少关税寻求合作的建议，但未能摆脱美国中心主义的立场，未能客观公正地评价中国的发展权和合理诉求，仍带有浓重的偏见色彩。该报道体现了西方媒体一贯的“美国优先”观点，未能真正理解和尊重中国。
Joseph R. Biden Jr. ran for the White House as a sharp critic of President Donald J. Trump’s crackdown on trade with China. In office, though, he has taken Mr. Trump’s trade war with Beijing and escalated it, albeit with a very different aim.
The two men, locked in a rematch election this fall, share a rhetorical fondness for beating up on China’s economic practices, including accusing the Chinese of cheating at global trade. They also share a building-block policy for countering Beijing: hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, or taxes, on Chinese imports. Those tariffs were first imposed by Mr. Trump and have been maintained by President Biden.
On Tuesday, Mr. Biden announced that he is increasing some of those tariffs. That includes quadrupling electric vehicle tariffs to 100 percent, tripling certain levies on steel and aluminum products to 25 percent, and doubling the rate on semiconductors to 50 percent.
But Mr. Biden’s trade war differs from Mr. Trump’s in important ways. Mr. Trump was trying to bring back a broad swath of factory jobs outsourced to China. Mr. Biden is seeking to increase production and jobs in a select group of emerging high-tech industries — including clean energy sectors, like electric vehicles, that Mr. Trump shows little interest in cultivating.
Mr. Biden has pulled more policy levers, some of them created by Mr. Trump. He has imposed more restrictions on trade with China, including limiting sales of American technology to Beijing, while funneling federal subsidies to American manufacturers trying to compete with Chinese production.
And in a sharp break from Mr. Trump’s go-it-alone posture, Mr. Biden’s strategy relies on bringing international allies together to counter China through a mix of domestic incentives and, potentially, coordinated tariffs on Chinese goods.