Analysis: Trump's tariff onslaught against China launches a battle the US may not be able to win

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Beijing can also inflict other penalties on the United States, such as halting export licenses for rare earth minerals that are vital to the US tech industry -- one reason why Trump may have been so obsessed in finding alternative sources of supply in places like Ukraine and Greenland.
48% : "We have one shot at this," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
46% : China is showing every sign that it thinks it can outlast Trump in their clash, for which it has been preparing for years.
35% : And while public opinion is still important in China, Xi may reason he can afford to inflict more pain on the Chinese than Trump can on Americans.
34% : As a real authoritarian leader, Xi, unlike Trump, has no worries about the impact of a trade war on looming elections -- such as the congressional midterms next year.
31% : "President Trump has a spine of steel, and he will not break, and America will not break under his leadership.
26% : " The vast stock of personal and political capital Trump has now invested in the faceoff with Xi makes this the most serious lurch of a volatile week since the US president announced his "Liberation Day" tariffs in the White House Rose Garden.

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