[Number57]

That's your choice - a tariff is imposed on everyone. And what's to stop the Chinese from imposing tariffs of their own?

You're kidding, right? The trade imbalance is so hugh (heh), they would never dare upset it in our favor.

[decal]

"...they would never dare upset it in our favor."

Lots of people do things against their own best interests out of spite.

Remember all the Japan-bashing of 20 years ago? They were supposedly going to buy America and we were all going to have to learn to like sushi.

We did nothing about it and they've been in a self-imposed recession ever since. China will run into the same problems soon enough - you can't export your problems.