For the past few weeks the eyes of the world have been transfixed on escalating trade tensions between the United States and China. Having ridden a wave of protectionist sentiment into the Whitehouse in 2016, Trump’s campaign rhetoric targeted China as the source of America’s economic woes. As the president begins to act on the promises he made to U.S. voters by imposing tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing Review Chief Commentator Liu Yunyun explains why scapegoating China is the wrong way to bring prosperity back to the American people.

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