Good news, but they’ll simply follow the Japanese by replacing the 40% tariff with a non-tariff barrier:
Say, something like, “The importation of US cars must be proceeded by a safety inspection by the authorities located in (insert TINY coastal Chinese town).”
That’s what the French did, many years ago, for videorecorders they didn’t want to levy tariffs on.
There’s a jillion ways they could swing it. Non-tariff barriers are the things of liars and China is FULL of those.
It’s still a symbolic victory, I guess.
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Right.
Also, China has to somehow stop stealing our technology. I heard they even stole the secret formula for Coca Cola. (Serious!)
War with China, given current geopolitical conditions, is almost inevitable. The sooner the American public understands this, the better.
One of the vilest canards of the globalists is the obvious falsehood that nations with extensive trade contact do not go to war.
That is a lie. WWI and WWII are both examples of wars between European nations with EXTENSIVE trade before the wars.
On the other hand, the USA and USSR never got into a shooting war, in part because we had no trade with them, hence, nothing but ideology to argue about.
Given the extreme likelihood of war with China in the not-too-distant future, we might be better off to encircle them (like we did the USSR) and cut off all trade. This would allow our superior economic system to utterly defeat them, as it did the communist USSR.
Yeah, like President Trump is going to stand still for that.