Ben Shapiro says “China is perfectly happy” with Trump's trade war
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From the April 30, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): OK. So China is trying to build a multipolar world in much the same way that Russia wants a multipolar world with itself as sort of the center of Eurasia. China would love a multipolar world with itself, at the very least, at the center of the Southeast Asian part of the globe. Plus, they're spreading their tentacles all the way across Eurasia into Africa, even into South America.
So they are very pleased, actually that President Trump, in declaring a trade war on China, also decided to simultaneously declare a trade war on everybody else — because that pushes all those countries toward China and away from the United States.
That is why China is perfectly happy with this situation. They actually are quite pleased with all of this. They don't care about their citizens. They're happy to make trade deals with other countries. They have been traveling all — Xi Jinping has been spending every day in other countries trying to cut trade deals.
And meanwhile, the United States is trying to claw its way back to kind of status quo ante. They're claiming that they're cutting brand new magical trade deals. We haven't seen any of those trade deals as of yet. It is currently April 30. President Trump declared Liberation Day, April 9.
So when do we get to see the trade deals? Well, again, the markets are waiting for it, and the markets are enthusiastic about the possibility. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday teased that the Trump administration had reached its first trade deal. He didn't say who it was with. He didn't say what exactly the trade deal would constitute. But the markets responded by being very enthusiastic because they clearly want the off ramp. The markets want the off ramp. They don't feel that this trade war is well thought out.