Of course Americans won't do it, but then again China isn't interested in peace with America either.
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There are times I wish SDF shitposting has an impact on Chinese decision making — this is one of them.
Is this the best thing China can do strategically? Nope. But it sure is the most entertaining.
There are some demands which are politically difficult to meet, like EV in the U. S. Others, like Nvidia chip sale. TSMC allowed to fab Huawei chips, EUV, could be done under the hood without explicitly announcing to the world. The latter category also includes geopolitical power yielding. It is more likely that a deal can be struck containing more of the latter category of demands.
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TSMC fabbing Huawei chips is a short term benefit (<5 years), same with nvidia cards. China should further push for SMIC and home grown chip design instead.
This will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to extract a pound of flesh from America. China needs to focus on long term, foundational and irreversible gains when the walmart shelves are empty.
This will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to extract a pound of flesh from America. China needs to focus on long term, foundational and irreversible gains when the walmart shelves are empty.
When the January 6th Committee subpoenaed Peter Navarro in 2022, he refused to snitch on Trump or otherwise cooperate in any way.
As a result, Dr. Navarro spent four months camping .
He even "celebrated" his 75th birthday at camp!
Not to say our illustrious president is a , but a mob boss would certainly classify Dr. Navarro as a man of merit on the basis of Omerta.
Yet Tony Soprano whacked Tony B nonetheless when he became too much trouble.
In all fairness, if COMAC and Huawei are willing to build factories in the US, Trump may go for it as he'll be able to sell such capital investments as political wins to domestic audiences.
That would be very altruistic of China!
However, should Beijing wish for Washington to discover new in the Muslim world at the expense of American and , then it must support !
Not sure if Trump will ever personally conduct any executions, but insallah, we will find out over the course of the next 1,361 blessed days or so!
Not allowed to rent seek in a communist state? Literally unlivable. Time to self-exile.
When aiding the U.S. during the 2008 financial crisis, China was already acutely aware of the potential fallout. America had embedded a dormant threat within China’s economy, adhering to its well-worn strategy of global financial extraction. At the time, China began laying groundwork to shield its short-term stimulus-driven growth from being drained by U.S. capital. The aim was to redirect dollar inflows away from China’s real estate and infrastructure "reservoirs," expanding these channels through overseas infrastructure projects and trade. While decoupling was not yet anticipated, China sought primarily to protect its wealth from American financial exploitation.
In 2008, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pressed China to absorb over 700billiontostabilizeAmericanmarkets.Withtheyuannon−convertible,thiscapitalwasfunneledintobasemoneyexpansion,inevitablyinflatingrealestateandinfrastructurebubbles.Chinaunderstoodthedangers,havinglearnedfromthe1997Asianfinancialcrisis.RecognizingAmerica’scyclicalcapitalistcrises—whichrecurevery8−10yearsanddemandexternalcapitalextractiontoresolve—Chinausedthe700 billion influx to prepare for the U.S. Federal Reserve’s planned 2016-2018 rate hikes, designed to collapse China’s economy and enable cheap acquisition of its strategic assets.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) emerged partly to address overcapacity: after excessive domestic infrastructure investment (steel, cement, etc.), China redirected surplus industrial resources to developing nations as U.S. rate hikes pressured its real estate sector. By 2010, warnings circulated within China’s financial system. The $700 billion injection had generated 4 trillion yuan in base money, which ballooned into over 20 trillion yuan in credit—the origin of today’s local debt crisis. A guiding principle among Chinese leaders was: "However it decays, the meat must rot in our own pot" (no wealth drainage to foreign capital). The cost, however, was immense.
From 2016-2020, the U.S. attempted to siphon value from China via gradual rate hikes but failed. Post-2020 pandemic quantitative easing (QE) compounded America’s woes: unresolved risks from 2008 fused with new QE-driven vulnerabilities by 2024, layering 2.5-3 crisis cycles. China effectively blocked two U.S. financial offensives.
To America’s elite, China is the ultimate saboteur—thwarting its capital extraction, magnifying QE’s toxic fallout, and crippling the dollar’s cyclical dominance. By 2018, after withstanding U.S. rate hikes without collapse, China realized it had inadvertently struck a mortal blow to dollar hegemony. Understanding America’s inevitable retaliation, China’s commitment to decoupling solidified long ago.