It will be a cold day in hell when China relents to Trump's nonsense, Chinese have a very HIGH threshold for pain especially of the fiscal variety, Trump is way out of his league when dealing with China. They haven't said a single word, it will all be actions, Xi Jingping didn't broadcast his tariff signing ceremony all over the world, he's not a lunatic. |
DP. You can have it now. Almost all of the furniture in my house was made in North Carolina or West Virginia. It costs way more than Wayfair or IKEA, but I bought it to last. |
Xi is playing chess. Trump is playing Snakes and Ladders. |
Let's not kid ourselves, Xi is a lunatic too. But he's quieter about it. And China also depends upon the US markets. Trump's bats*** crazy negotiating tactics are actually best-suited to China. Using them on the rest of the world is just dumb. And harmful to the US and to his plan, whatever that is. |
Are you kidding? You have to be able to count to play snakes and ladders. Trump is just having a giant temper tantrum. |
Respectfully, I disagree. China has broadened their markets so much that U.S market is simply one part of their world market. Also, like I said earlier Chinese can suffer and feel the pain a LOT longer than us. I have lived in China, I have worked with Chinese, these are not individualistic societies like ours, these people have deep capabilities to hunker down and bear the fiscal pain, especially for national pride. |
Actually, the rest of the world has a high threshold for pain as well. Developing countries know how to perservere and do without. There are still many, many people in Europe who vividly remember the decades post-WWII when there was still debris and carnage and decades more of rebuilding. Those folks will all weather the strom while the "tough" Yankees qill quickly start blubbering. |