Trump 2.0 official thread
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Is Elon in trouble now?
Many, if not most of the China Hawks around Trump genuinely believe China is evil and must be "" in some or .
A lot of these guys treat "Freedom and Democracy" like a religion, and to them, the authoritarians of the CCP and the Chinese they govern are who must be converted or conquered.
To quote , who wanted to appear polite about it:
China Hawks are in many ways mirror images of salafist jihadis (who they also naturally detest), in their unrelenting sense of ideological superiority and utter intolerance for ideological deviance.
Out of desperation, perhaps to address another crisis or series of crisis elsewhere!
Considering Trump's propensity for self-sabotage, sooner or later he's going to seriously need Beijing for something, even more so than now.
At that point, he may very well rush into a "bad deal" if it's pitched to him in the right light to self-rationalize.
Of course they wouldn't be, but Trump would. As you can see, he's willing to settle for anything that involves him appearing to win now, even if it involves China winning as well which he'll spin it as his own win anyway. We know China will mostly just consume more of what it produces, but he'll probably say something like "the Chinese will start buying more, a lot more, including our great oil, coal, gas, and soybeans from our great farmers. And we'll finally get to ditch those freeloading Japanese and Filipinos, they're China's problem now."
What types of Chinese imports are those?
Okay, you lost me here. I got no idea what you are talking about.
I think you take the Americans too seriously. Why you listening to those clowns.
China will do, what is in the best interest of China, which is what it always does.
In this case, this current trade war, the tariffs will come down to a lower level, by both sides, and then they probably will call it a day.
Just my opinion, with all the other issues, there will be no resolution, and they will not even negotiate about it.
Then, next, China will go on continue to do, what it has always been doing, as long as I been alive, which is undermine American power, anywhere it can. Whether China directly trying to undermine America, or indirectly, does not matter, one side gets stronger.
That is how the CCP always played this geopolitical game.
Now if we think a worldwide financial crisis is advantageous to the PRC, I would bet the CCP will not want to go there.
Have you watched the video?
You don’t understand one thing: the production capacity of South Korea and Japan cannot be further expanded. There are no additional industrial capabilities, a lack of more shipyards and domestic component supply chains (millions of distinct industrial components—no one can produce them without China), not to mention policy uncertainties—now targeting China, but they could be next in the future. Forcing them to incur losses is easier than forcing China to do so. Additionally, shipbuilding orders in Japan and South Korea are already backlogged until 2028. Currently, only China has the production capacity to meet global shipping demands.
Shipping companies could assign all Japanese and Korean ships to serve the U.S. market, then uniformly raise freight rates for U.S.-bound routes (regardless of whether Chinese ships are used). This equates to imposing a unified tariff on global shipments to the U.S.—exactly what’s happening now. This will only weaken America’s competitiveness further.
broadsword
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Am I right, those are the reasons the production capacity of South Korea and Japan cannot be further expanded?