{"id":220601,"date":"2025-02-12T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=220601"},"modified":"2025-02-12T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:52:08","slug":"us-gearing-up-for-conflict-tariffs-meant-to-prepare-for-war-with-china-ex-us-marine-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=220601","title":{"rendered":"US Gearing Up for Conflict? Tariffs Meant to Prepare for War With China, Ex-US Marine Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__header\">\n<div class=\"article__announce-text\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump has made good on his promise to slap an additional 10% tariff on goods from China despite long-held concerns the protectionist measures would affect imports essential to the US defense industrial base. Sputnik asked veteran geopolitical observer and ex-Marine Brian Berletic how the new restrictions will play out.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__body\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">Beijing &#8220;firmly deplores and opposes&#8221; the US&#8217;s new tariffs &#8220;and will take necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests,&#8221; China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Sunday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">Among them is a complaint lodged against the US at the World Trade Organization.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">&#8220;There are no winners in a trade war or tariff war,&#8221; Beijing warned, calling on Washington to &#8220;correct its erroneous practices, meet China halfway, face up to its problems, have frank dialogues, strengthen cooperation, and manage differences on the basis of equality, mutual benefit and mutual respect.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"article\" data-article=\"main-photo\">\n<div class=\"article__article m-image\"><a class=\"article__article-image\" title=\"Trump Hits Canada, Mexico With 25% Tariffs, China Faces 10%\" href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20250202\/trump-hits-canada-mexico-with-25-tariffs-china-faces-10-1121525451.html\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"President-elect Donald Trump speaks as he arrives for a meeting with the House GOP conference, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com\/img\/07e8\/0b\/0e\/1120880902_0:410:3072:1639_1920x0_80_0_0_f91c5b22edd51c0888414414d0ffcd10.jpg.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com\/img\/07e8\/0b\/0e\/1120880902_0:410:3072:1639_640x0_80_0_0_203bd217fd904fb742e67d854dabdef8.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com\/img\/07e8\/0b\/0e\/1120880902_0:410:3072:1639_1280x0_80_0_0_889d5ca35a8b989867b4192a8f7b5320.jpg.webp 1280w,https:\/\/cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com\/img\/07e8\/0b\/0e\/1120880902_0:410:3072:1639_1920x0_80_0_0_f91c5b22edd51c0888414414d0ffcd10.jpg.webp 1920w\" alt=\"President-elect Donald Trump speaks as he arrives for a meeting with the House GOP conference, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 02.02.2025\" width=\"1920\" height=\"768\" data-source-sid=\"ap_photo\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com\/img\/07e8\/0b\/0e\/1120880902_0:410:3072:1639_640x0_80_0_0_203bd217fd904fb742e67d854dabdef8.jpg.webp 640w,https:\/\/cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com\/img\/07e8\/0b\/0e\/1120880902_0:410:3072:1639_1280x0_80_0_0_889d5ca35a8b989867b4192a8f7b5320.jpg.webp 1280w,https:\/\/cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com\/img\/07e8\/0b\/0e\/1120880902_0:410:3072:1639_1920x0_80_0_0_f91c5b22edd51c0888414414d0ffcd10.jpg.webp 1920w\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__article-desc\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"h3\">\n<h3 id=\"1121526799-1\" class=\"article__h2\">Ripping Off the Band-Aid Despite Strategic Risks<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">The new tariffs &#8220;will indeed jeopardize essential materials and components for US military industrial production, but are meant to continue a process of decoupling from China which began under the first Trump administration, continued throughout the Biden administration, and is now being expanded even further,&#8221; Brian Berletic told Sputnik, commenting on the strategic risks the US military-industrial complex, which depends on China for things like\u00a0rare earths\u00a0and\u00a0other components, will face with a new round of Trump&#8217;s trade wars.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-bg\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-bg-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__quote-text\">&#8220;The US is preparing for conflict with China and just like its proxy war with Russia, knows that inevitably Chinese-sourced materials and components will be cut off sooner or later. These tariffs are meant to do it sooner rather than later and under conditions giving the US more time to address them\u00a0<em>ahead of<\/em>\u00a0conflict with China rather than\u00a0<em>during<\/em> conflict with China,&#8221; Berletic said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"article\" data-article=\"main-photo\">\n<div class=\"article__article m-image\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"h3\">\n<h3 id=\"1121526799-2\" class=\"article__h2\">MIC&#8217;s Needs Will Stretch US&#8217;s Limited Industrial Base<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">&#8220;Costs will rise for corporations producing weapons, vehicles, and munitions, but they will not shoulder this cost &#8211; US taxpayers will,&#8221; Berletic predicts.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-bg\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-bg-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__quote-text\">&#8220;The influx of additional money and opportunities for these military industrial corporations to vertically integrate production will increase their profits. As America\u2019s limited industrial capacity is focused on military industrial production, rising costs and scarcity will increase for American consumers,&#8221; he explained.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__quote-info\">\n<div class=\"elem-info\">\n<div class=\"elem-info__share\">\n<div class=\"share m-active\" data-id=\"1121526799\" data-url=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20250202\/us-gearing-up-for-conflict-tariffs-meant-to-prepare-for-war-with-china-ex-us-marine-says-1121526799.html?share-block=1121527179\" data-title=\"&quot;The influx of additional money and opportunities for these military industrial corporations to vertically integrate production will increase their profits. As America\u2019s limited industrial capacity is focused on military industrial production, rising costs and scarcity will increase for American consumers,&quot; he explained.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__block\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\"article__text\">Whether under Trump 1.0, Biden or Trump 2.0, the tariffs &#8220;sold to the American people as an &#8216;America First&#8217; policy&#8221; are actually &#8220;designed first and foremost to preserve the primacy of US\u00a0<strong>corporate-financier monopolies<\/strong>, safeguard or even expand their profits, and entirely at the expense of America\u2019s own &#8216;allies&#8217; as well as the American people themselves,&#8221; Berletic said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has made good on his promise to slap an additional 10% tariff on goods from China despite long-held concerns the protectionist measures would affect imports essential to the US defense industrial base. 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