The American president signed a decree that, in fact, authorizes the launch of investigations into China to ascertain that there are no violations of intellectual property and the theft of technology, with the aim of "protecting American workers" and combating and fight "piracy". For some time, President Trump has been suspicious of Beijing's trade surplus and now the dossier joins that of North Korea.
America is thus pushing for Chinese trade policy, hoping to increase pressure on Beijing on the North Korean crisis.
Trump has repeatedly complained about the little commitment China is putting into the crisis with Pyongynag; With the decree, the American president, hopes that commercial pressure may somehow convince Beijing to take a more active attitude to the resolution of the crisis.
The White House, however, is keen to clarify that these are separate files and that the decree on the theft of intellectual property was signed because this "crime" has cost Americans millions of jobs and billions of dollars a year; Trump, opening a crucial week for American trade policy, highlighted how “for too long, a lot of wealth has been stolen from the country under the gaze of Washington, which has never done anything. From today Washington will no longer look the other way ”.
Beijing welcomes the survey coldly, considering it inappropriate; Of course, Trump, of course, sees great opportunities as it paves the way for a wide range of sanctions that are likely to put Beijing in jeopardy on the stage of global trade.
In addition to the Chinese question, there is the revision of NAFTA, the free trade agreement that links the United States, Mexico and Canada, and which Trump, during his electoral campaign, promised to revise.
The first meeting will be held in Washington on August 16. The Trump administration wants to close the talks by 2018, before the elections in Mexico.
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