This is all fine, but what is point of doing this? Why would China agree to -what? - buy more American goods because Trump is sticking his finger into its most sensitive wound? What country would react that way? Moreover, the Chinese public is going to be enraged by this. What if the Chinese leadership decide to respond to Trump's provocations by using this as an opportunity to show that the US doesn't dare do what it did in 1996 and sail an aircraft carrier battle group through the Straits of Taiwan? What if Trump does this anyway and China sinks those ships? I wish that there was more analysis here. It's one thing to "negotiate" over a business deal by using economic leverage; it's something else entirely to stir up anger over the most sensitive nationalist issue in China.