[notaliberal]

You already have!

[House Atreides]

They fired the first shots DECADES AGO. They’ve been firing ever since.

[Moonman62]

They are blinking. They are the ones with the huge surplus and the most to lose.

[SecondAmendment]

The Chinese have a unique talent for dishonesty.

[butlerweave]

The Chinese Communist Party will be finished when they run out of other peoples stuff to counterfeit

[TBP]

They won’t because they already did.

[DoughtyOne]

China fired that first shot decades ago, when they manipulated their currency about 35-40% lower to block U. S. imports.

Now any reaction will be spun as someone else taking the first shot.

N O T . G O N N A . H A P P E N

(us forgetting what has already transpired)

We’re not going to take it anymore.

Enjoy.

[jospehm20]

Except for the stuff they have been doing to us for 30 years.

[SpaceBar]

China has been engaging in an aggressive trade war with the U.S. for at least 25 years which has decimated entire industries.

[CodeToad]

They already did!

[JPJones]

Ok fine, we will.

[poinq]

China has to watch out. A good trade war and those house prices will tumble. They are already a huge bubble. As soon as factories start closing it will snowball into something really bad.

[Robert DeLong]

So what does chia hsin-wen mean?

[grumpygresh]

U.S. should be ramping up trade deals with all the Far East nations. The high tech goods should be transferred to US companies wherever possible but Taiwan, Japan and South Korea should pick up the slack. Low tech manufactured goods could be made in Indonesia, Phillipines, and Vietnam.

The U.S. would also benefit selling weapons systems to these countries. All these countries depend on manufacturing exports and are natural competors to China. They also by and large have an historical antipathy and fear of Chinese hegemony.