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Both President Trump and President Xi want, in some deep sense, their respective countries to import less. President Xi has been somewhat more effective at achieving that goal.
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That's an intentionally provocative framing, but Xi is deeply committed to the basic goals around "Made in China 2025" and China's imports of manufactures have (net of imports for reexport) fallen as a share of China's GDP under his tenure.
And best I can tell (and it is admittedly hard) the slowdown in China's own imports over the last 4qs has been an independent source of the global slowdown -- e.g. the weakness in China's imports of manufactures right now isn't just a function of weak trade and Trump's tariffs
