I was just addressing the viral issues.
Population impact aside, I expect I’ll survive.
Which, yes, leads to your concern: whatever the fatality rate, the economic impact will be significant. Supply lines are being strained & breaking. Gonna take a long time to recover, and a major setback for “globalism” as businesses & governments realize the cost of relying on other countries.
This even, whether it turns out to be as dire as predicted or not, is a significant event along the lines of 9/11.
Trump had already warned of concentration risk of doing business with China and the tariffs were scaring people into diversifying supply chain.
This virus has sped this up a decade. China will never recover from this and Trump’s anti globalist message is vindicated.
I think that’s why he wanted USMCA so badly. Next term he goes after the cartels with our military. Which is a far better cause than some shitholes in the ME. This stabilizes Mexico.
Mexico becomes a destination for assembling products. We have free trade with Mexico. Mexico becomes prosperous, illegals self deport. Drugs stop coming over the border.
In the words of the Great Ronald Reagan on the Soviets: We win. They lose.
That’s China’s future.
This even, whether it turns out to be as dire as predicted or not, is a significant event along the lines of 9/11.
Trump had already warned of concentration risk of doing business with China and the tariffs were scaring people into diversifying supply chain.
This virus has sped this up a decade. China will never recover from this and Trump’s anti globalist message is vindicated.
I think that’s why he wanted USMCA so badly. Next term he goes after the cartels with our military. Which is a far better cause than some shitholes in the ME. This stabilizes Mexico.
Mexico becomes a destination for assembling products. We have free trade with Mexico. Mexico becomes prosperous, illegals self deport. Drugs stop coming over the border.
In the words of the Great Ronald Reagan on the Soviets: We win. They lose.
That’s China’s future.