Yesterday’s War
We are past the point where we can decouple economically from China.
Both sides of the argument on China’s domination of the wireless market, as presented in Jon Pelson’s Wireless Wars, are moot. The harsh fact is that we have lost the trade war with China through a combination of incompetence and narcissistic self-delusion. Not only have we lost the trade war; we are losing the race to the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (the application of broadband and A.I. to the entirety of economic activity).
When Donald Trump imposed a 25% tariff on roughly half of U.S. imports from China in August 2019, China’s exports to the U.S. were a seasonally adjusted $410 billion a year; in April 2022 they were more than half-again as much, at $675 billion. We don’t have the industrial capacity to meet the demand we created with the $6 trillion COVID stimulus, so we pay for imports at higher prices.
Here is the next phase of the plan for the average joes when winter comes.
Germany on verge of gas emergency ‘alarm stage’ – Die Welt
The measures in question kick in when there is a major disruption in supply or demand
The so-called “alarm phase” is triggered when there “is a disruption in the gas supply or an exceptionally high demand for gas which leads to a significant deterioration of the gas supply situation, but the market is still able to cope with this disruption or demand without the need to take non-market based measures,” according to the German Economic Ministry's 3-stage .
@ansy1968 can you stop pretending to be a hot 21 year old girl?Doubt there are any female in SDF lmao. Someone is 99% just impersonating her.
@Rettam Stacf bro you need a Harvard MBA to understand all of this...lolLet me try to understand the logic why sanctioning Russia's gold import and export will put Russia on her knees.
I give up. There is no logic at all.
- Russia is neck to neck with China as the two top gold producing countries in the world.
- Russia import very little gold. Not even among the top 15.
- Russia ranks #7 as gold exporter (4.4% of global export) in 2021.
- Russia is right next door to China, the #7 ranked gold importer (11.1% of global import) in 2021. China can easily absorb all the gold Russia exports.
This idea is probably originated from the same group of western financial/economic wizards who came up with the ideas of EU banning coal import from Russia in April (two months later EU all switching to coal), escrow oil & gas payment to Russia (this brilliant idea lasted not even a week), and institute a cap on Russia oil prices.
Sure look like another home run from these guys.