> I don’t think any of this will work favorably to the US, just trying to think what their internal logic might be. The "internal logic" is that Trump thinks t

> I don’t think any of this will work favorably to the US, just trying to think what their internal logic might be. The "internal logic" is that Trump thinks trade deficits are bad. That's it. He's been going on about this since the 1980s: * https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-forged-his-ideas-on-trade-in-the-1980sand-never-deviated-1542304508 https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-forged... * https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/politics/china-trade-donald-trump.html https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/pol... Every justification for that "logic" is rationalization for the decision Trump has already made.