How much can China insult their trading partners and expect business as usual? China must really believe they are the middle kingdom. India is ahead of the United States in banning Chinese apps. I read recently that Vietnam had asked for India’s help in dealing with China’s bullying. I think the region is ripe for an multinational alliance to contain China.
I don’t really care about trade agreement with China. A few years with no Chinese trade should knock them down a couple of notches.
I have been following the flooding in China and get inadvertant glimpses of internal political events now in process.
Apparently there is heavy friction surfacing between the old line communists in the CCP and those favoring growth and outreach of business.
It may very well be that Xi and the hardline communists really don’t care too much about business when the basic communism is threatened. The old men are tired of business as usual and capitalistic success. Hong Kong takeover is the proof. The successful businesses of Hong Kong are a threat to all the rest. The cancer is being cut out
As the President says.....”We’ll see”
Decades of lopsided trade agreements (Bush sr, Clinton, W,Obama) is what’s funded and built up their military machine. Territories of neighboring countries they just move into and take over, backed by the threat of their military. For countries far away they buy ‘em up and turn them into military bases, Djibouti for example. But at the root of it are those trade deals that Trump has been talking about since day 1. Actually for over 30 years if you look at his videos.