Donald Trump is not even in office yet and is already filling his shadow government team with China hardliners and protective tariff advocates. He was the first to nominate Marco Rubio as Secretary of State (whom Beijing calls a China-basher and has so far barred from entering the country). Rubio will be joined by future Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, an advocate of high US punitive tariffs on all Chinese imports. Trump is being advised by former US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. His latest bestseller, „No Trade is Free,“ is intended to prepare Washington for Trump’s upcoming China era 2.0.