To the editor: This reader discovered contributor Josh Hammer’s feedback about President Trump’s warnings in opposition to Japan and now China (“Trump’s newest commerce warfare with China is sorely wanted,” April 10) disingenuous and never a mirrored image of world commerce. There’s a must develop a viable monetary commerce technique with every nation, as an alternative of a one-size-fits-all tariff that is mindless, particularly with nations which might be depending on our merchandise.
Trump’s character failings and his shameless acts to place himself first earlier than the wants of the nation elevate questions on his world tariff objectives. Hammer uncared for to remind readers that in Trump’s first time period, China’s Trademark Workplace granted 18 emblems to each him and his daughter Ivanka.
Hammer additionally failed to say why Trump’s largest donor within the 2024 election cycle, Elon Musk, had arrange a Tesla car manufacturing plant in China or why Apple manufactures most of its iPhones in China. If not for China’s skill to fabricate Musk’s Tesla EVs and Apple’s iPhones at a low value and in portions and high quality to satisfy market demand, each producers would have chosen to fabricate their merchandise in america.
Larry Naritomi, Monterey Park
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To the editor: I admit that Hammer’s column illustrates that Trump has been, for years, on the suitable facet about China’s commerce insurance policies and has justification for his calls for for prime tariffs on Chinese language exports. He accurately notes (in my view) the elite “acted in myopic and ruinous vogue” on the subject of commerce with China.
However he implodes when he suggests the Chinese language Communist Celebration “have to be crushed … by the category traitor par excellence Donald Trump.” First, the phrase “communist” has way back misplaced any resemblance to something apart from an oligarchy and means just about the identical factor as MAGA.
China has had a secure (largely) functioning oligarchy for 47 years whereas the U.S. has had a secure (largely) functioning democracy for practically 250 years. Trump is attempting to create an oligarchy by way of chaos that no wannabe oligarch has been in a position to set up in fashionable instances. Trump is much extra prone to be crushed.
Carl Mariz, Irvine
