“Now that the United States has adopted such huge restrictive measures, like holding a knife to someone’s neck, how can negotiations proceed?”
Let’s kick those tariffs up to 25% and add another $200 billion in Chinese imports to the mix.
Then we’ll find out “how can negotiations proceed?”.
China’s only option is to retaliate “via other means”, or succumb. Capitulation is political suicide, both internally and internationally. The “Prime Imperative” in China is no nation can be allowed to protect itself from the economic imperialism and mercantilism of the Chinese regime. There simply must be pressure applied, from some “whole nation” perspective, to force the US to capitulate.
Otherwise we are the first of many dominoes to fall and China will be relegated to regional hegemon status. And once retrenchment starts, economic collapse due to debt deflation will consume them like a funeral fire.
Thank God for DJT at the helm.
That’s not a knife to your neck, China. That’s the muzzle of one of the hundreds of millions of high velocity, center-fire rifles in circulation in our 2nd-Amendment-protected country.