Trade War with China
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manqiangrexue
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Don't worry; China's economy will still outgrow them, technology will outpace them, and whatever China needs to do to sustain these, we will do, by law or by practice only. It is China's skill to give an adversary what he wants and have it fall apart in his hands. As things stand, the trade gap is increasing. Even with lower tariffs, Chinese people are in such fervor, American sales cannot climb, but in America, Chinese goods do, because Chinese goods are life essentials to Americans while American goods are luxuries with alternatives to the Chinese. Technology-wise, no matter what is promised, the details of operations are in China and enforcement is with the Chinese courts; they're beating a head horse. To go loggerheads with someone can be done by anyone who loves his country and has a temper. But to continuously maneuver and manipulate a larger foe into a position where you can take advantage of him and grow yourself until you can defeat him outright takes skill.
Remember, winning for the US isn't selling soybeans and it isn't getting some auto tariffs reduced. Winning for the US is to reverse the trend of China's economy outgrowing the American economy and to stop Chinese technology from becoming more advanced than American technology. Right now, the US has realized that they are losing and want to force a change. China's job is to let them change, but put them in a different kind of losing position all the same. As long as China preserves the trend of its rise, that is a defeat for the US no matter how many "concessions" it cheers. For all their squirming, all they will have achieved will be setting themselves up to lose in a different way.
We're lucky to be alive in this period and to see this happen; if we were born a hundred years ago, we'd see nothing but despair for China and if we were born a hundred years later, we'd take everything for granted.
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Replace "personal freedoms" and "fair business and trade practices" with "the blessing of jesus" and "the salvation of one's eternal soul by the religious authorities that we control" and your statement is correct.
The West is very much the same aggressive religious crusader as thousand years ago. The god in whose name countries are invaded and people are oppressed and slaughtered has changed, that's all.
I agree. I would like China to become Western and democratic only to end up invading Saudi Arabia on charges of human rights violations. China can sever the Western oil supply and turn that country into a failed state so that the West gets nothing anymore, all for democracy and human rights.
I bet the West has nothing to say against that noble cause? After all, who needs to drive cars and have an economy if you have the awesome blessing of democracy-jesus that makes BigMacs fall from the skies for every woman and child?
Couldnt have it said any better. I cannot imagine what sort of despair the people of that time have felt. Maybe not the average peasant, who was just trying to survive yet another famine, invasion and attempted genocide - but those who dreamt of peace and of a China that wasnt being stomped upon by literally everyone and their dogs. As such, the people like Lu Xun, Liang Qichao and also Mao Zedong deserve the highest praise. All their work and legacy, both intellectually and politically, were marked by a despair-induced rage against the fate of China. No matter the costs and no matter the mistakes on the way, China must rise again. And they achieved their goal.
All the West is doing nowadays is to make our generation feel that same all-powerful rage once again.
The West should know from their own experience that oppression and injustice invites rage and anger that will end up exploding one day. I bet the French King and his nobles regretted their centuries of insults and arrogance towards their subjects once they were heading to the guillotine. If they had treated their people a bit more nicer, they wouldnt have ended that way.
The West thinks that revolution and the toppling of an oppressive government is only being feared by authoritarian states like China and Russia... In reality, the Western hegemony is the one that should be scared the most. For that hegemony has oppressed and mistreated far more people and countries, and sentenced them to the fate of being the garbage dumps and whores of the white-western supremacists than all authoritarian states combined could have done so.
The argument that engagement with China didn't work is just an excuse. The truth is we don't know if engagement has worked or not because China's GDP per capita is still not high income by WTO standards and no one knows at what GDP do countries become/have to become democratic.
The Western establishment didn't expect China to rise so quickly before the mindset of the people changed. They thought the people would revolt and become an India (a non-threat). Though they were smart enough to understand that China would have become a failed democracy and will get split into like 5 countries.
The Western establishment didn't expect China to rise so quickly before the mindset of the people changed. They thought the people would revolt and become an India (a non-threat). Though they were smart enough to understand that China would have become a failed democracy and will get split into like 5 countries.
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China will concentrate on the R&D of electric vehicles. Restricting the market of conventional vehicles is no longer necessary.
Ride sharing and oversupply is already killing car sales in America, without China, US companies would be screwed.
"now I read"
(read this in your most pretentious and pretending-to-be-neutral tone possible
So much for judical independence! Trump admits that he can just manipulate the judical process as he desires. As expected from the graceful God Emperor! Also, totally not an admission that it was an attempted black-mail from the start!
(read this in your most pretentious and pretending-to-be-neutral tone possible
So much for judical independence! Trump admits that he can just manipulate the judical process as he desires. As expected from the graceful God Emperor! Also, totally not an admission that it was an attempted black-mail from the start!
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