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How Trump’s China Trade War Played Out in His First Term | FRONTLINE

   November 19, 2025  48 Comments on How Trump’s China Trade War Played Out in His First Term | FRONTLINE

How did President-elect Donald Trump’s trade war with China play out in his first term? As Trump vows larger tariffs on imported Chinese goods when he takes office for a second time, watch a video drawn from the new FRONTLINE documentary “China, the U.S. & the Rise of Xi Jinping.”

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48 thoughts on “How Trump’s China Trade War Played Out in His First Term | FRONTLINE”

  10. Realize Trump is merely a puppet of The Heritage Foundation, Koch Brother (David is dead) and all the other 0.01% aholes that want to own everything. This is all deliberate to distress small farms, small businesses, etc. such that multinationals, Hedge Funds and Private Equity can gobble up the distressed assets/realty for pennies on the dollar.

  12. The five and dime store president's products are all made in CHINA. One of the 101 ways Trump grifts the system. White man with long red (communist) tie speaks with forked tongue!😅

  13. We are watching him 4 years ago and what happened to the country goes bankrupt. The Abuse of power and bully other countries hahaha 😂😂😂😂 The world leaders should united together with China for the future of the people hahaha 😂😂😂😂😂

  15. The more you learn about trump, the more it actually seems credible he is putin's puppet. Destroying allied partnerships in the name of populism, and starting a useless trade war which the chinese has been able to avoid.

  16. The one that complains the most loses. Long before China came into the picture the US was using these tactics on their own allies in the then Bipolar world of the Cold War. Despite looming signs that their Economic power was waning especially in Manufacturing against the likes of Japan they simply imposed their will in the end by pressuring Japan to keep the value of the Yen high leading to Japan's economic woes thereafter. This is no longer the case with China a non-traditional ally who isn't and never was under tge security umbrella of the United States.

  24. tariffs is killing inflation, bringing back Americans manufacturing will decrease the dollar value, tariffs with other nations or brics nations members will isolate the usa!
    I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS TENSIONS OVER A DECADE, IT IS OVER, CHINA WON, I THINK TRUMP WILL DO SOMETHING SILLY WHICH WILL LEADS TO A CONFLICT WITH CHINA OR A CIVIL WAR BECUSE OF HIGH INFLATION AND MAYHEM IN THE USA!

  27. Corporations won't come back unless they have less favorable policies for employees in place, like "At will" laws in states, where the employer can fire employees for any reason or no reason at all, regardless of whether you're doing a good job, or not. They can implement technologies that make processes easier and more efficient, without needing a physical person. Also, they won't return if employers and laws are pro union and collective bargaining. Most importantly, they take their businesses overseas because the cost of "labor" is much lower than in the U.S. So, they want Americans to take lower pay, and not be unionized, and labor laws loosened to favor businesses more. Be willing to accept the above, even if Trump doesn't have the same sentiments about a job market more favorable for corporations, these same corps' will not return in mass, if laws and policies are in place, that are more pro "employee" than pro corporation.

  29. Just had a look at the China US trade deficit charts, over the trump period the trade deficit dropped.. in 2018 it was $418B and in the 2023 $279B … as Biden continues the Trade war….. The summary is a lie, lesson learned always check your information
    source statista

  30. Americans cry about their own wages being too low yet they don’t mind buying Chinese products made from CHEAP LABOR. The hypocrisy is truly palpable. Trump needs to apply 200% tariffs.

  31. Why is Western media obsessed with Gao? He's not the only Chinese academic who speaks fluent English. In essence, he's Xi's CCP mouthpiece for the Anglosphere. It's certainly fine to interview pro-Chinese thinkers, but can it be from the heart and mind of someone younger and not an old blowhard who has Ronald Reagan pop into his head at every mention of the United States of America?

  34. Global Trade had never been fair when USA is centralized and had set their Rules and Regulations on Global Trading. USA had used PetroDollar , Finance , Banking and Payment System to collect and gathering Information, Statistic and Data in the World Trade.
    This how US manage to monitor and forecast on 'Supply and Demand' and 'Stockpile and Release' thru their gathering of Information, Statistic and Data in the SWIFT System Payment and Digital Currency Conversion in the World Trade Activities.
    With these , the US$ . USA can manage to overthrow or Bankrupt any Adversary Country if she wants to. Lets hope the rest of the World can break free from USA dominance

  36. Ironic, since Trump himself was known to show other country leaders our capabilities. I was a military contractor for US aerospace parts for a decade. The fact that China built a fighter jet almost exactly like our newest fleet to a T, we knew what happened.

  39. All I hear is US capitalists getting played by Chinese capitalists.

    While US is a major market, it is not the only market. Something US as a whole is too blind to see. While US politicians are busy scheming plans to “stop China”, China is well on their way to pivoting. Always 3 steps behind, and very short sighted.

  40. The reason they are gaining so fast, is because we are letting them.

    American business manufacturers know this, and at the same time, with all that added wealth, also allowed them to purchase even more American, land, businesses, etc.

  41. American politicians sold us out to china…and china poisons us with Fentanyl…yet trump still tries to save us from ourselves, but people keep voting for dementia biden and word salad kamala. and will do all they can to stop trump. we may be doomed selling our national debt off to…china.

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  44. I can't wait to watch the frontline video about donald trump's election victory. I bet everything I own. They're gonna portray it as the darkest day in american history l o l

  48. The CCP subsidizes Chinese manufactured products. That's completely illegal according to the WTO rules China agreed to when they joined. Trump is right to impose tariffs on China to stop that subsidization because nobody else is going to. China won't be a problem for the world, until it is and then it's too late.

    And if you'd like to see how realistic this "documentary" is, just look at the US based manufacturing jobs over time. Pre-COVID, Trump added 500,000 US based manufacturing jobs in a three year period. No president had done that since China joined the WTO. Overall, the US did lose manufacturing jobs, but that was because of COVID and not because of Trump's tariffs.

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