特朗普在社交媒体平台Truth Social上发文：“中国应该向美国开放市场——这对他们会非常有好处！！！封闭市场行不通了！！！”
在中美于日内瓦举行贸易谈判时，一张漫画描绘了美国财政部长贝森特推著空购物车，清楚展现了如果关税战恶化，美国消费者将面临什么样的窘境。
在多次公开表示对中国领导人“钦佩”后仍未见成效，美国总统特朗普在走投无路情况下，派出财政部长贝森特前往瑞士，与中方代表会面，试图达成某种协议，为他在中美关税战中寻求一个体面的下台阶。
美国一些媒体为了转移人们对特朗普关税政策，这项被大多数经济专家视为不明智、甚至可能带来灾难后果的政策之关注，声称对中国的关税战是为了削弱中国的地缘政治力量与国际影响力，借此压制中国经济与科技崛起。
另一些媒体则渲染中国在关税战下面对的失业情况，甚至有少数声音幻想关税战能导致“中国崩溃”或政权更替。
然而，美国媒体至今少有报导那些反对特朗普以及这场对中国经济战感到痛苦的普通美国人的声音——这些人既反对关税战，也反对特朗普对美国经济领导地位的破坏。
这些声音可见于部分允许读者留言的美国主流媒体网站，尽管这些评论区往往受到策划与操控。
社交媒体“关税战”叙事
以下是部分选自《纽约时报》读者的留言（该报拥有超过1000万订阅者）：
●中国人是这场谈判中比较成熟的一方。但祝他们好运，因为想透过这些会谈搞清楚特朗普到底要什么，恐怕不是件容易的事。特朗普善变、反复无常，毁约成性——这就是他的本性与行事风格，其间还不忘恐吓与羞辱手段。
●中国人棋高一著，而特朗普则如初手。中国占了上风。
●你们的总统根本没牌可打，也不了解在儒家文化中，愤怒与侮辱意味著“失面子”，而不是谈判筹码。而且这些侮辱永远不会被忘记。
●特朗普的145%关税，以及中国对美加征的125%关税，不会有任何赢家。我们两国的经济深度交织，最终这种政策将引发通膨与失业。这就是所谓的“特朗普经济”。人民不傻，如果和中国、加拿大、墨西哥谈不成，谁该负责，一清二楚。
●作为曾在上海和新加坡工作多年的政治经济学家，且拥有普林斯顿国际政治经济博士学位，我只能说：特朗普与其手下，能跟中国见面已经算是走运。
●80年代，美国资本家与政客幻想征服全球最大市场，结果在自由市场中失败，现在反而抱怨中国不公平。
●有哪一个国家会愿意与一个有欺诈前科、言而无信、动辄撕毁协议，只凭一时情绪行事的罪犯订立贸易协议？美国选出特朗普就是一大错误，他根本不配当总统。
●别忘了特朗普曾是一个真人秀节目的演员，在节目中扮演一位成功企业家的角色。和许多情况一样，观众混淆了演员与他所扮演的角色，结果导致美国大批民众误以为特朗普真的是生意天才。
●特朗普的存在意义是拥抱怨恨、要求臣服。他的“胜利”只是为了满足虚荣。中国可能会给些象征性让步，让特朗普有台阶下，但实际上美方收获极少。
●特朗普到底在搞什么？这正是当下最难解的问题。他的立场几乎是每天变、甚至每小时一变，全看他最近刚从哪些“顾问”那里听到了什么——包括好莱坞演员乔恩沃伊特（Jon Voight，支持电影关税）、极右派人士鲁默、美国知名时事评论员塔克卡森、特朗普贸易顾问纳瓦罗，或任何一位碰巧成为他身边“混乱代理人”的人物。
● 对我来说，值得关注的是12月25日。如果许多家庭的圣诞装饰减少，特朗普将被指责毁了圣诞节。尽管如此，他正计划在白宫举办一场盛大的圣诞庆典。希望那里灯火通明、充满欢乐。届时对比将非常鲜明。所以，中国与全世界，请继续坚持你们的立场。让我们看看美国人在节日变淡、物价又上涨的情况下会作何反应。
● 看起来，中国掌握了所有的筹码。那场只是几个刚好在同一座城市的官员之间低层级会谈，根本算不上什么突破。中国会在美国展现出认真态度、提出真正有诚意的想法时才会正式谈判——当然，前提是美国还有谁能做到这点。
● “中国仍然掌握主导权”——如果他们现在还掌握，那就表示他们从头到尾都掌握。那么，若早知道自己根本没优势，我们这位所谓的“稳定天才”总统为何还要挑起与中国的冲突？难道他想再破产一次来刷新纪录？
●特朗普像狗一样乞求（与中国谈判）数周，最后不是什么也没拿到，这是惨败——尽管特朗普会声称自己大获全胜。美国在当代历史中从未如此弱势，我们的联邦政府前所未有地腐败与无能。我们到底是怎么了？
●虽然我不是中国的支持者，但看到有人敢对抗特朗普这种霸凌者，还是让人欣慰。可惜我们的国会太胆小，完全不会独立思考。如今当共和党人，似乎首要条件就是“无脑”。
●想像这群无能之人去与聪明、受过教育、知识丰富且经验老道的中国代表谈判，简直是最搞笑的综艺节目《周六夜现场》段子。拜托你们去吧，我们也需要笑一笑，毕竟你们已经把国家搞得够惨。
●我从没想过我会祝福习近平政权，但这次我真心希望他能让特朗普现出原形：一个毫无原则的吹牛皮。中国应该强硬对抗，美国在特朗普治下的荒唐行径，值得被对待成这样。
●这根本不是场公平对决。中国派出训练有素的谈判团队，他们会把特朗普团队吃得死死的。美国经济过度依赖消费，如果消费引擎减速，整体经济也会下滑。
为何特朗普急需达成协议？
在众多留言中，让人惊讶的是，一种“希望关税战继续”的声音正逐渐获得支持——这种希望源于对美国现状的绝望。他们期盼关税战带来的痛苦能迫使美国内部出现政权更替。
这些反对特朗普政策的美国人，不仅希望中国坚持立场、拒绝向“霸凌者”低头，还视中国的强硬态度为一种助力，能推动他们对抗特朗普的“让美国再次伟大”计画（MAGA）、寡头统治、反民主与新自由主义议程。
目前，尽管特朗普政府试图将瑞士会谈取得的成就包装成是中国先让步，但越来越多的普通美国人希望中国不要退让，更不愿看到特朗普将任何微小让步吹捧成“胜利”。
林德宜《美国人对特朗普关税战看法》原文：Americans Speak Out On Trump Tariff War
CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA — WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR THEM!!! CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114477610338144415
The cartoon of U.S.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushing an empty trolley published in the U.S.-China trade negotiations in Geneva provides a stark image of what would have faced American shoppers had the tariff war gotten worse.
After his repeated assertions of admiration for his counterpart in China have not had much effect, President Donald Trump in desperation sent his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Switzerland to meet with Chinese representatives to secure some kind of a deal that would provide him with a face saving retreat on the U.S. tariff war with China.
Some US media, in attempting to distract from what the great majority of American economic experts see as an indefensible and potentially ruinous economic strategy, have argued that the tariff war focus on China is necessary to bring down China’s geopolitical power and international influence through slowing its economic and technological rise.
Other media have provided sensationalized reports on the loss of jobs that the tariff war has produced in China; with a few venturing to postulate that the tariff war could bring a “China collapse” and regime change.
What has been missing to date in the US media reports and analysis are the anti Trump and counter tariff war responses provided by ordinary Americans experiencing the downside and pain from the anti China economic policies as well as from those opposed to what they see as the undermining of American economic leadership and standing.
These responses can be found in some readers' comments appearing in leading US digital media websites which permit curated, and often propagandistic, online comment on US foreign and domestic policy developments.
Social Media Tariff War Narratives
The following is a selection from the New York Times which has over 10 million subscribers
● The Chinese are the grown ups in the room. But good luck to them with their goal of getting clarity on what Trump actually wants by having these talks. Trump flip flops, reverses himself, bails out of agreements; it's who he is and what he does, along the way bullying and insulting
● Chinese are playing high level chess. Trump is playing beginners checkers. Advantage China
● Your president has no cards - nor does he understand that in Confucian based cultures anger and insults are a loss of face, not leverage. Nor are such acts ever forgotten
● There will be no "winners' resulting from Trumps 145% tariff and the 125% tariffs China has levied on us Our 2 economies are so intertwined that some time relatively near to now the pain from both of actions will slow will cause first inflation and then loss of jobs This is now the Trump economy People are not stupid and they will know who to blame if no deals are made, with China, Canada, Mexico and the rest
● As someone who lived several years in Shanghai a/w/a Singapore, where I was chief political economist for ***** a/w/a a PhD in international political economy from Princeton,I wd say Trump & his minions are lucky they are getting any meeting at all w the Chinese
● In the 80s, American capitalists & their politicians dreamed of conquering the world's largest market but lost on the free market & now they're whining that China doesn't play fair
● Why would any country make a trade deal with a felon with a track record of fraud who has repeatedly shown he can't be trusted and will break any and all treaties based on his latest capricious whim? The US made a huge mistake electing Trump. He's not fit for the office.
● Let's not lose sight of the fact that Trump is a former actor on a reality TV show, where he played the role of a successful businessman. As is so often the case, the viewing public confused the actor with the role he was playing. This led to vast swaths of the American public thinking he really is a successful businessman
● Trump’s raison d'etre is to embrace perceived grievance and to require capitulation before his endless petulance. The Chinese will likely offer modest concessions to assuage his massive ego thereby allowing him to claim a great victory for the American people while actually achieving humiliatingly little
● What Donald Trump is up to? That is the question of the moment. He changes his mind daily, hourly. Depends on what he just heard from "advisors" such as Jon Voight (film tariffs), Laura Loomer, Tucker Carlson, Peter Navarro, and any other such agent of chaos who crosses path with Donald
● For me the day to look to is December 25. If many homes have fewer ornaments and rostrum will be blamed for destroying Christmas. As it is, he’s planning a large White House celebration of the birth of Jesus. Hopefully it will be aglow in lights and joy. The contrast will be sharp. So, stay the course, earth and China. Let’s see how Americans react to this along with higher prices.
● Looks to me that China has all the hardballs in their basket. A lowish level meeting between a couple guys that happened to be in the same city is not some breakthrough. China will talk when America shows itself to be serious, and when they can put forward some serious ideas, assuming America has anyone who can do that.
● "The Chinese“ still have the upper hand". If they still have it, they must have had it all along. So why would our stable genius administration start a fight with China if they knew they didn't have the cards, to borrow a now infamous phrase? Is Trump trying to run up his bankruptcy number?
● Trump begged like a dog for weeks... and will either get nothing at all, or lose big time, even though he would declare victory either way. America has never been weaker in modern history and we have the most blatantly corrupt and incompetent federal government in modern history. What in Hades is collectively wrong with us?
● While not a fan of China, its good to see anyone stand up to the bully - Trump. Too bad that our own Congress is too cowardly to think for themselves. It seems that a prime requirement to be a Republican nowadays is the inability to have an original thought.
● The idea of any of the incompetents in this administration attempting to speak to stratospherically smarter, more educated, more knowledgeable and more experienced representatives of China would be the funniest SNL skit ever. Go ahead children, you go talk to those folks in China, we could all really use a good laugh after the horrific damage you’ve already done so far to our country.
● Never thought that I would wish Xi's regime well but, in this case, I hope he shows up Trump for what he is - an unprincipled blowhard. Yes, China should play hardball. America's stupid behaviour under Trump deserves nothing less.
● This is really no contest. China will send sharp and disciplined negotiators. They'll eat the Trump team for lunch. The US economy has relied on consumer spending for decades. If that economic driver slows down it'll pull the whole economy down with it.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/world/asia/china-us-tariff-talks.html
Why Trump Needs A Deal
What has been getting surprising traction and support in the comments is the hope - born out of despair with what is happening in the U.S. - that the tariff war continues indefinitely so that the pain it brings to American consumers can lead to regime change within the U.S.
This opinion among opponents of Trump's domestic policies not only wants China to stand firm in refusing to "kneel down” and compromise with a “bully”. They also feel that the China resistance can be a factor to assist in their fight against Trump's MAGA plutocratic, anti-democratic and neo-liberal agenda.
For now, although the Trump administration is trying to spin that China is the side that is retreating first on the Switzerland talks, a growing number of ordinary Americans want China to hold firm and not to concede any concessions that Trump can announce as a victory in his blog site.
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