Video/Trade Conflict, the Real Aim is to Push Negotiations on New Terms
Donald Trump is targeting China with trade sanctions, outside WTO rules, because he doesn’t accept the terms of China’s accession to the WTO in 2001, terms dictated by the fact that China was then treated as developing country, explains in this video Claudio Dordi of the Department of Law. With the trade measures he has imposed Trump is now primarily seeking to push negotiations to change the terms to which China participates to the international trade regime and so at the moment the measures have had a limited impact. If such negotiations fail however then a true trade war could result - which would be of no interest or benefit to any nation of the international community