[ninenot]

Harley-Davidson's 4-page letter (plus addenda, documentation, etc.) was handed to Sec'y Don Evans while he visited the HD plant in Milwaukee last week.

Harley's complaint is NOT about ChiCom restrictive tariffs: rather, the ChiComs have found OTHER ways to prevent HD sales in China. "Streets are too narrow" in town X, "Noise pollution" in town Y., etc., etc.

All patently silly--but they've worked, despite the redress HD has sought through ChiCom court system.

[1rudeboy]

Again, I know nothing of the Harley-Davidson/China situation, but I can assure you that HD will not find relief in the Chinese court-system.

[Cronos]

More realistically, would anything made in the US have substantial sales in China when the yuan is kept at an artificial low. What is the actual PPP there? Or burgernomic value would do. Wait, I'll google it up.

[StolarStorm]

If I had to come up with a plan to cripple a nation before entering into a war with it, I couldn't do a better job than what is happening now.

1. Flood their markets with cheap goods thus eroding their manufacturing base.

2. Destroy their intellectual capital by outsourcing professional services.

3. Make what manufacturing they have dependent on you for critical components.

4. Cause societal unrest by encouraging unemployment among the capable segments of society.

5. Buy control of the panama canal so that you can shut it down at will.

6. Bribe politicians so they ignore what is clearly going on.

7. Use their own ideals against them (screaming free trade while protecting your own).

Is this what they meant by asymmetrical warfare?