But what if they put a duty on stuff they contains Chinese made chips etc etc to make Chinese stuff 3x dearer then a similar locally made product?
1. The United States does not speak to China from a position of strength, in this case of consumer electronics, because there is close to none laptop production or cell phone production in the United States.
2. The United States government can try to prohibit the sales of Chinese made chips or the like inside America. But that would be like telling the entire supply chain outside of America to do it their way, which is essentially impossible. And there still is no domestic production of laptops or cell phones.
3. The United States government, logically faced with no method of stopping the world, choose to impose sanctions via restrictions on their own American companies. The Americans will degrade their own interests their corporate interests in order to stop the Chinese. This is a replay of the Vietnam War, where they had to burn down the village to save village.
4. This strategy is working because the compliant and cheerleading American Liberal media tells us it is working. That this mythical supply chain will re-locate soon.
5. Only foreigners can see the irony here. The world today of globalization, was mostly built by the Americans the last few decades. Now they do not like what they built and are thinking of extricating themselves from it.
6. China thinks ... like so what? China is doing the RCEP, the BRI, and maybe the CAI. China wants to do something even bigger!
7. I do not believe there will be another new cold war between the two combatants. It probably will only be about China, China, China, Chyna!
