I think differently about this now, and China will win this trade brawl over America, bigly.
We have to look at trade numbers for the coming couple of years.
It was that AsiaTimes article from ancient philosopher Han Fei zi, where he said that the Iron Mike Tyson combo, the old one two, the first punch was the retaliation, then, internal stimulus, and more outward investment into BRI which is infrastructure, second punch.
I believe there is a third path too.
Suppose a state owned enterprise builds a factory in Spain, to serve the EU market. That is not a bad idea.
But in the strange twist of fate, due to the trade war brawl, now they can export from Spain this Chinese product and face a lower tariff, depends on what rate that Ursala von der Ladan can negotiate.
It would be like the Chinese supply chain, just some parts of it transplanted abroad, but still it is one supply chain, the China supply chain.
Haha! Bigly!
Now the amazing part is that this already exists. Chinese factories in ASEAN, Chinese factories in Europe, Chinese factories in Brasil. They can all get inputs from China, and sell some of that production into the American market.
That is probably why Xi Jinping is busy with his diplomacy this week, to facilitate this business.
That is the thing about boxing, got to beat the other combatant to the punch, the ole one two!
This kind of renders all this nonsense the past week to be nonsense.
Whatever they were thinking, who knows.
What irony eh? He is Trump negotiating deals with all those countries that kissed his ass, for the next 90 days, except China is excluded and targeted, but here is Xi going around making deals to keep access to the American market for Chinese firms.
I mean, why the hell were they thinking?
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