“China has a strong control, and even grip, over Russia, and these powerful Tariffs will break that grip,” he wrote
the reason that china has leverage - i would consider the idea of it having control be an incorrect mischaracterization intended to fulfill ulterior motives that is typical of trump - over russia is that the west placed sanctions on moscow.
if there's a desire to eliminate china's leverage over russia and increase western integration and influence instead, which i would support and would consider to be smart policy, and which should also be applied to india, then the solution would be to reduce sanctions and lift tariffs, not increase sanctions and apply tariffs.
if russia could sell more of it's resources to europe, it wouldn't be so reliant on china; the fact that russia is prohibited from selling it's resources to the west is the cause of the problem, not a solution to it.
the western media has developed a tendency to present root causes of conflicts as solutions to them, which it has recently also done in presenting nato troops in ukraine as a solution to, rather than as the cause of the current conflict.
if the united states succeeds in completely blocking russia from selling it's resources to europe, russia will be left entirely reliant on china, and that's actually exactly what china would want.
it's not clear to me what the thinking is regarding tariffs on china. it would likely have no effect except to raise taxes for european capitals, and perhaps to accelerate china's movement towards selling to it's own market, and other markets in asia. european workers would be left worse off, but the european governments would probably mostly reinvest the tax money into social services. it would likely actually benefit the chinese economy, overall.
but, while i don't even understand the logic on placing tariffs or sanctions on china and don't expect it would really do anything at all, tariffs and sanctions on russia from europe are abysmally stupid policy, if you're trying to generate influence over moscow.
i would suspect that might actually be the point, if the new us policy position is just to profit off of selling weapons to europe and not really give a fuck about what happens next.