bro I think it works the other way around: our economies compete ... anyway, it looks they didn't drop that much today, right now it's about 2925 and yesterday, also around noon here,
our economies must function together or one or both will fail, it is about supply and demand, I have something you want or need, and you have something I want or need? We both want the "best deal", but if we insist on "skinning the other fellow" we will end up like the Rafael deal, both losers?
So while competition is a very good thing in the market place, the last dime is not always a "smart" pursuit when we are negotiationg, sometimes to make the sale you have to take a little less, and sometimes in order to get what you need, you have to "pay a little more"?
The US and China had a very mutually beneficial agreement, this more adversarial stance will break both economies, and more importantly weaken our mutual strength. Ronald Reagon's "Peace through Strength" brings both honor and prosperity to all involved? our current policies seem to be bringing just the opposite IMHO?