By Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg News
Vice President JD Vance called on Beijing to “choose the path of reason” in the latest spiraling trade fight between the U.S. and China, claiming that President Donald Trump has more leverage.
“It’s going to be a delicate dance, and a lot of it is going to depend on how the Chinese respond,” Vance said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” “If they respond in a highly aggressive manner, I guarantee you, the president of the United States has far more cards than the People’s Republic of China. If, however, they’re willing to be reasonable,” he said, then the U.S. would, too.
Vance’s remarks are the latest in the tit-for-tat escalation that has sapped markets and increased confusion ahead of a potential meeting later this month in South Korea between Tru