[Mariner]

When one runs a $375 billion ANNUAL trade surplus with one's largest trading partner, one has no leverage.

None.

Hollow mumblings from China. They will do nothing that will jeopardize their access to this market.

[Telepathic Intruder]

They get all their money from us. Without it they would be like Venezuela.

[neverevergiveup]

“Hollow mumblings from China. They will do nothing that will jeopardize their access to this market.”

I absolutely agree.

[Regulator]

Goody.

Does that mean they will let their currency float?

Market rate Renminbi would have solved a lot of this without tariffs.

But that’s what happens when you cheat. The other players in the game retaliate.

[JonPreston]

China does not want a trade war

And why on earth would they? America buys their stuff, where else is there a market like our middle class? Like COSCO & Sams Club, they will now have to pay their fair share in taxes to entice our consumers. Turn about, after all, is fair play.

[depressed in 06]

one has no leverage.

China can take fat Kim out.

[rurgan]

Just one city in China makes 90% of the world’s electronics ,proof:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/inside-shenzhen-china-s-gadget-capital/
China destroyed the U.S. electronics industry .And China is now trying to destroy the U.S. steel and aluminum industries.

A country needs an electronics industry in order to survive

The USA didn't import hardly anything from any foreign country all the way up to 1970. CNN and the news media want you to think we need to “trade” with China so that China can destroy America for them.

[Hostage]

> “China says it does not want a trade war with US”

Of course. They’ve had it so good for so long they can’t imagine it changing.

At least they’ll have an excuse to tell their slave labor the US is to blame.

[fella]

Heck no China doesn’t want a trade war. Without our trade their military will collapse and they won’t bw able to buy our progressive politicians.

[CodeToad]

Then why does it conduct one???

[Sacajaweau]

Might help a few businesses to think about “coming home”.

[Sidebar Moderator]

When did Trump ever say “trade wars are good and easy to win”? Or is Rooters putting words in his mouth, as usual?

[Sidebar Moderator]

China only accounts for a small fraction of U.S. steel imports, its massive industry expansion has helped produce a global glut of steel that has driven down prices.

Which is a violation of WTO rules. Predatory trade practices. China does this by using the North American Free Trade Agreement loophole to ship steel products to the United States. That's why the biggest mistake was bringing China into the WTO and so was NAFTA.

The author of this piece is an economically illiterate

[lee martell]

President Xi: “Economically speaking, China is a Lover, not a Fighter!”//

[Georgia Girl 2]

Of course they don’t want a trade war. Duh 101.

[Secret Agent Man]

Real war?