Harris isn’t trying to decide new fights with China, not like Trump

Kamala Harris is betting that Americans don’t need an all-out confrontation once they inform pollsters they’d like their leaders to get even more durable on China.

Faced with polling that claims most Americans consider confronting China must be a prime foreign-policy precedence, Harris’ marketing campaign messaging means that whereas she received’t go straightforward on China, there’s no upside in a larger rupture between the world’s two greatest economies. That contrasts together with her rival Donald Trump, who’s argued for 60% tariffs on Chinese imports.

Harris has been a part of efforts to “responsibly handle the competitors with China,” her prime international coverage aide, Phil Gordon, wrote in a observe quickly after President Joe Biden stepped down from the race. In maintaining with Harris’ scant coverage platform to this point, the observe didn’t point out tariffs in any respect.