Trump pressing for NATO countries to put a 50% to 100% tariff on China

Summary: fergua3 expresses concern over Trump's pressure on NATO countries to impose high tariffs on China, arguing that it could negatively impact those reliant on Chinese imports, as well as provoke retaliatory tariffs from China, particularly affecting Canada. They question when other countries will stand up to Trump, emphasizing the importance of NATO to the US. john_koenig99 mentions a potential change in policy by Carney regarding Chinese EV tariffs, while flipistics suggests that if Trump wants tariffs on China, he should first remove tariffs on their products.

If Trump is successful at bullying his way into dictating NATO country's foreign policies towards China this could be bad news for some sellers...ie anyone who gets supplies or inventory from China or HK.

It would also be very bad news for Canada, as it would no doubt bring about further retaliatory tariffs from China......the last thing we need right now.

At some point other counties have got to start standing up to this clown, don't they? The US needs NATO as much as everybody else does.......unless Donnie boy is content to fight a nuclear war with Russia or China...cause that will be his only option. There is no way the US can handle Russia and especially China in a conventional war by themselves and i doubt the US will be happy to see the Russia/China alliance take over huge parts of the world, including Europe (and maybe Canada)..