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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Scared China Into Playing ‘Nice’ With the US Again

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Scared China Into Playing ‘Nice’ With the US Again

Update: 2025-11-061
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The “experts” were wrong again.




For months, Americans were told that the U.S. was embroiled in a losing “trade war” with China, preventing the two world powers from striking any sort of deal.




However, in the face of this supposed adversity, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump inked a trade and economic deal, which included key Chinese concessions: agreeing to buy more U.S. soybeans, ease export controls on rare earth minerals, and crack down on fentanyl production chemicals.




“In other words, China is trying to be nice to us because it's afraid. Because it understands that the United States always had the potential, as a free, consensual society, to be more dynamic, stronger, and have a much greater role in the world” and that the only thing holding us back was Joe Biden’s ineffectual leadership, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”




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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Scared China Into Playing ‘Nice’ With the US Again

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Scared China Into Playing ‘Nice’ With the US Again

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