Jake Sullivan Defends Tariffs On Chinese Imports

 

The SCMP keeps track of US China policy for us, kind of. In an article about the administration's ideas on tariffs on Chinese imports as expressed by US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan at an event at the Brookings Institution he informs us that  Biden’s approach on China represented a return to “a tradition” of American foreign policy based on the concept of “self-interest rightly understood”.

In 2023 the US imported, mostly from Canada and Mexico, USD 210.3 billion in automobiles from 87 countries. Manufacturers in mainland China shipped $2.5 billion in cars or about 1.2% of US imports.