[ex-Texan]

For what it's worth, here is another interesting opinion piece to consider:

China and U.S. Square Off in Trade War

Predictable . . . Yada, yada, yada

[M. Espinola]

From the 'China-US' link:

"To keep its credit-corruption economy going, China’s ruling party, the CCP, needs the U.S. to buy Chinese exports at a rate that keeps its economy growing fast enough to keep its new entrepreneur class growing and supporting the regime. If they fail, the CCP loses their core political support base."

The second link had this interesting data (which we are informed by real estate salesmen - is only a 'myth':

Real estate insiders go bearish in blogs In mostly anonymous postings, agents are reporting big problems in the markets.