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 latest trade war with China is sorely needed,” 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 a substitute of a one-size-fits-all tariff that is not sensible, particularly with nations which are depending on our merchandise.
Trump’s character failings and his shameless acts to place himself first earlier than the wants of the nation increase questions on his world tariff targets. Hammer uncared for to remind readers that in Trump’s first time period, China’s Trademark Office granted 18 trademarks to both him and his daughter Ivanka.
Hammer additionally failed to say why Trump’s largest donor in 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 capability to fabricate Musk’s Tesla EVs and Apple’s iPhones at a low value and in portions and high quality to fulfill market demand, each producers would have chosen to fabricate their merchandise in the US.
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 correct aspect about China’s commerce insurance policies and has justification for his calls for for top tariffs on Chinese language exports. He appropriately 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 “should 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 (principally) functioning oligarchy for 47 years whereas the U.S. has had a secure (principally) functioning democracy for practically 250 years. Trump is attempting to create an oligarchy through chaos that no wannabe oligarch has been capable of set up in trendy instances. Trump is way extra prone to be crushed.
Carl Mariz, Irvine
