[Mr Ramsbotham]

Does China need Walmart more than Walmart needs China?

If it comes to that, cheap goods we're getting from China will probably come from other low-wage countries that don't mind dealing with us a bit more fairly.

[Zhang Fei]

[If it comes to that, cheap goods we’re getting from China will probably come from other low-wage countries that don’t mind dealing with us a bit more fairly. ]

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Even if the trade with these countries is lopsided, they probably don’t have nukes aimed at our cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Chenghu

We wouldn’t give let the Russians run a massive trade surplus against us. Why would we let the Chinese do so?