How China is playing to win Trump’s trade war

TOKYO — Few anticipated the self-control that Donald Trump appears to be exercising toward China this week.

While North American allies Canada and Mexico are looking at 25% tariffs, arch-rival China got away with just 10%. No one is more surprised than Beijing policymakers who feared the worst as the Trump 2.0 era hits the ground running.

True, Ottawa and Mexico City managed to secure 30-day delays. But the tariffs are coming. Both nation’s pledges to toughen border security won’t stop Trump from achieving a multi-decade goal of sticking it to countries he thinks mooch off America.