Posting blind, from another board, on Trump’s strategy wrt China:
“Trump has set in motion the economic collapse of China. By putting on then taking off, then putting on then taking off tariffs, Trump has made planning impossible for companies, which want to expand or start China operations. This cutoff of investment, not attributable to a legal action by the US leaves the Chinese unable to respond. As it takes hold, their economy weakens.
American companies in particular, now know to realign their suppliers as insurance against disaster, so they can adjust without cataclysmic disruption. Threaten a tariff, then relent so American companies get a little extra time to make their changes. Rinse and repeat. Production moves out of China, and won’t come back.
Meanwhile the Chinese are losing foreign investment, and the leverage over foreign company’s IP secrets. Like most thieves, they have been living above their means, and suddenly have had their income slashed.
Complicating their lives, they must crack down on Hong Kong risking a huge black eye and weakened foreign ties, or let it go on and risk it spending to the Mainland.
Xi isn’t the only one, who isn’t smart enough to take on Trump, but he is exhibit A. “
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China is, believe it or not, BY FAR the big news of the week.
I wrote in the last thread that Hong Kong is a potential flash point for something big ... sort of like the Free City of Danzig (whose German population did not wish to continue as part of Poland) in 1939.
But if Trump punctures the globalist TICK which is the Chinese economy, inflated with wealth stolen from America ... and analogous to Reagan's economic take-down of the USSR ... then that will become not only the signature foreign policy achievement of his entire 8 years, but a turning point in world history.
The leftist media is TOTALLY DISTORTING THE MEANING of the inverted yield curve--which is a flight to quality (i.e., USA bond market) and last remaining safe yield--in order TO TRY AND TALK AMERICA INTO A RECESSION.
This will not work.
They'll NEVER UNDERSTAND the unity we feel behind this President. WWG1WGA.