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Opinion: How Trump’s tariffs can generate both economic and political reform in China

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Donald Trump may be unlikely to bring about revolutionary change in China , writes Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer : But history may have placed him in the position to accomplish inadvertently for China what Ronald Reagan did intentionally for the Soviet Union .

Trump eschews noble sentiments and missionary zeal that made Reagan a global icon, Zelizer says.

He says economic pressures he intends to impose on China through sanctions and expanded tariffs have potential to accelerate its demise.

Joseph Bosco : To Xi 's complaint that tariffs hurt China ’s economy, Trump need only remind him that the COVID pandemic he unleashed on the world in 2019 cost a million American lives and contributed to his 2020 reelection loss.

Trump can also recount for Xi his destructive intervention in U.S.-North Korean relations in 2019 when the countries were on the verge of a potential denuclearization breakthrough.

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