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Victor Davis Hanson: China Would Lose A 'Trade War' With The US... "Gradually, Then Suddenly"
American Greatness ^ | 04/14/2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/14/2025 5:40:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 04/14/2025 6:38:07 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

No one wants a “trade war” with China, or for that matter with any nation. Nonetheless, China has been waging one for years and is now locked in a tariff recalibration with the Trump administration.

In this American effort to find trade parity and equity, China can do some short-term damage to the U.S., especially in terms of ceasing exports of some pharmaceuticals, phones, and computers. But ultimately, it cannot win—and will eventually lose catastrophically. It will likely accept that reality sooner rather than later.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; China; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; tariffs; tradewar
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1 posted on 04/14/2025 5:40:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"Gradually, Then Suddenly"

I love Ernest Hemingway quotes.

2 posted on 04/14/2025 5:42:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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3 posted on 04/14/2025 5:46:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I am (again) impressed. Bravo.

From the Sun Also Rises about bankruptcy.


4 posted on 04/14/2025 5:48:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I would enjoy seeing China in pain gradually and then suddenly.

When Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane bought an authentic antique torture rack, the Crosby, Stills and Nash singer David Crosby, a close friend of hers, begged her to let him get strapped onto it.

He giggled during the first turns, then laughed, but suddenly with the next turn he went red faced and screamed uncontrollably.

Good idea for the Chicoms. The biggest mass killers.


5 posted on 04/14/2025 5:53:16 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, China’s already having liquidity problems


6 posted on 04/14/2025 5:56:43 PM PDT by struggle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I did my master’s thesis on that book


7 posted on 04/14/2025 5:57:47 PM PDT by struggle
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To: SeekAndFind

I am a huge fan of Victor Davis Hanson. He has the best insight into most of the issues that MSM media pundits blather about. I try to watch and read just about everything that he releases nearly every day. As far as I am concerned, he has now replaced Rush as the voice of the right.


8 posted on 04/14/2025 6:06:59 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: SeekAndFind

Brilliant Analysis... VDH at his best


9 posted on 04/14/2025 6:13:32 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: frank ballenger

My favorite. I also like Big Two Hearted River a lot for its fishing descriptions.


10 posted on 04/14/2025 6:54:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good literature. Hanging by a thread in the woke era of academia.

True story in a library magazine a few years ago.

A public library was having a outdoor lawn sale of books to raise money.
A man came up to the volunteer at the payment table and said: “I want you to know this book was accidentally put out there for $1 but this is a genuine Ernest Hemingway first edition.”
She looked bored.
“Who is Ernest Hemingway?”


11 posted on 04/14/2025 7:08:43 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

I’m still in love with Lady Brett Ashley.


12 posted on 04/14/2025 7:23:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: SeekAndFind
China has one enormous advantage: the huge fifth column within the USA that seeks America's destruction, viz. the Democrat Party/woke Left.
13 posted on 04/14/2025 7:26:21 PM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hemingway bump !


14 posted on 04/14/2025 8:01:52 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: SeekAndFind
It will likely accept that reality sooner rather than later.

I surmise that due to the hubris of Xi and the CCP that the Chinese people will need to suffer greatly before they will ever capitulate to their own reality delivered to them by President Trump and the USA. Extreme retaliation is on Xi’s table.

15 posted on 04/14/2025 8:14:08 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: SeekAndFind

*bump*


16 posted on 04/14/2025 8:21:42 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: frank ballenger

I remember about thirty-some-odd years ago I was hitting on a young lady and the discussion turned to literature. I mentioned Ernest and her knee-jerk response was that he was a “misogynist.” I doubt she ever read a word he wrote in her life, but her Lefty “perfessers” told her he was a “misogynist.” The conversation did not last much longer.


17 posted on 04/14/2025 10:16:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Savage Beast
You forgot to add the Free Traitor™ Republicans to your list of enemies.
18 posted on 04/15/2025 3:56:27 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
You're right.

China has one enormous advantage: the huge fifth column within the USA that seeks America's destruction, viz. the Democrat Party/woke Left and treasonous RINOs.

19 posted on 04/15/2025 6:44:40 AM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You dodged a bullet


20 posted on 04/15/2025 10:28:06 AM PDT by Az Joe (We can't spare President Trump; He fights!)
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