> The Chinese, by contrast, have yet to deploy anything like the full range of tools at their disposal to offset Trump’s actions and hurt his political base. A

> The Chinese, by contrast, have yet to deploy anything like the full range of tools at their disposal to offset Trump’s actions and hurt his political base. A technically correct but very misleading sentence, given China's unapologetic protectionism: https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/protectionism-may-be-rising-around-the-world-but-in-china-it-never-went-away/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2016/10/12/prote... But then it's par for the course to ignore that when talking of US trade policy (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-worldbank-china/china-denounces-protectionism-in-swipe-at-u-s-trade-policy-idUSKCN1RP0HU https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-worldbank-china/china...)