A New Front in the US-China Trade War

Washington’s expansion of tariffs will hurt Beijing in the long run, if not the short term.

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In mid-May, U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled a proposal for new tariffs on a variety of Chinese imports. This year, the U.S. will raise tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to 102.5 percent from 27.5 percent, double the rate on solar cell imports to 50 percent, and more than triple the rate on lithium-ion EV batteries […]

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Victoria Herczegh
Viktória Herczegh is an analyst at Geopolitical Futures. She is also a PhD candidate at the Political Science and International Relations Doctoral School of Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Her PhD research topic is "Double Standards projected by Great Powers". Ms. Herczegh holds a bachelor's degree of Chinese Language and Culture and a master's degree of East Asian Studies. She also spent one semester at Shanghai International Studies University studying Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Herczegh is a native Hungarian fluent in English, Spanish, French and Mandarin.