But the fact Chinese delegates have to seat there and listen to this unequal terms and insults from US shown China is from the position of weakness. Even If they just try to keep the talk alive to buy more times it shown Xi didn't prepare for this trade war in advance. Had they prepare they wouldn't have to seat down and listen to those BS. China years ago, should purposely scale down the export business, have migrant workers stay at rural area for development which they just roll out such program beginning 2019. Lacking the migrant workers needed for manufacturing, export would diminished years ago and structure would look different today.But the easy export money is too much temptation for the country like opium.
Also US attacked China tech companies left and right yet China couldn't counter punch against US tech companies in return shown China hands being tied , afraid enraging the situation further more and all products being taxed 25%. Again , it shown China not prepared. Some folks argue China is more hoslitic and have more loftier goal, wouldn't engage with US in this type of mudslinging, well that's Ah Q attitude from well known author of Lu Shin, thw novel of a defeatist ,Ah Q trying to comfort himself despite suffered humiliation.
You never raise any new points and you never say anything useful. Could China have been better prepared if it foresaw the challenge in 2014? Of course! But it was not foreseen, by either the US or China really, and you didn't predict it either. Hindsight's always 20/20. What's the next big challenge? What, other than the obvious need to improve technology, will challenge China in 2025? 2030? 2035? Do you know? Hell no. What's the point in saying we could have been better prepared if we foresaw it 5 years earlier? Forget that the rise of Donald Trump is an unforeseeable sudden death struggle the initiated in the US (no country, no US ally would have predicted America to suddenly become so closed and unreliable so suddenly to the point where a poll says that Germans in 2019 regard China as a more reliable partner than the US); even if an event
could have been foreseen but it was not, what is the point in blaming the past? The blame game only serves to bring disunity in your team; the energy spent there should be diverted to future strategies. We can only take things as they come and China's current reactions are as good as it gets.
The appropriate Chinese proverb for this situation would be to "defeat 10,000 changes with no change." The US has thrown everything including the kitchen sink at Huawei to attack it. Huawei instead just continues to do what it does best, and the result is a decoupling of American allies from the US for its petty behavior and with Huawei signing dozens of 5G deals around the world. Even those who are not swayed (yet) to sign with Huawei have spoken out and internally realize how pathetic America's behavior is. Huawei engaged in no hostilities in response to American hostility and won the hearts of people and that's what a business is about. It's not about defeating people and putting them into dire straits; that' war. If Huawei and China immediately started attacking US companies, then the mud-slinging would begin and through the muddied waters from which no one can make out the truth, US allies will instinctively band with the US and see this as a no-morals China vs USA fight. "Defeat 10,000 changes with no change"
The same is true on a national scale; trade wars tend to bring the most damage to the nations to which it brings the most change. One country can engage recklessly in large sweeping changes while another can be more guarded and analytical, resisting the instinct to meet fire with more fire but responding in a much more well-thought out way. Which of these 2 kinds of people usually wins a chess match?
I feel like I have to type the same thing to you over and over again. Why don't you read former posts? Victory is not about being the loudest person in the room, as you obviously think it is; victory is the results. For the past few decades, America has always been the loudest person in the room and China has always been the one to grow the improve the fastest. It seems you prefer the volume instead. Chinese results, including GDP growth, successful transition to consumer-based economy, national unity, growing trade surplus with the US, etc... compared with the US political circus and the very real concern of a US slowdown amid already slow growth is showing that the current Chinese strategy is the winning one.
Trust China's leadership, which has delivered its nation from a country that resembles modern Venezuela to the only one that makes Americans truly fear for their future; you are one common man with no privileged knowledge. Recognize your smallness.
