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I'm the "above poster", I literally am in the middle of this trade war because I am engaged in international trade. I pay a portion of these tariffs that are going up. I'm putting my money where my mouth is. [/quote]

Sure whatever.  You can be whomever you want to be on the Internet.  But the fact is, that Americans will pay more due to this unnecessary trade war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/us-china-trade-tariffs.html
[quote]Economists differ in their forecasts of how much tariffs on both sides will reduce economic growth, but most agree that the cost of tariffs is passed on to businesses or consumers in the form of higher prices.

The president’s economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, on Sunday said that both the United States and China would “suffer” as a result of the tariffs.[/quote][/quote]

Okay, well given that it's an anonymous forum, the fact that you are engaging means you are by default in acceptance of certain claims of facts. You are free to challenge them, and I'm willing to discuss my knowledge international trade in any way to establish my "bona fides".

Again, very few people wants to fight a war for the sake of the war itself, but rather people reluctantly enters war in order to achieve some goal after the war. People like you who keeps talking about the effects of the war itself is not convince those of us who are focused on the goals of the war, which is a more open and fair trading partner in China, to the benefit of both the US and China, and those free-loading Europeans who will obviously turn to China and say "I'll have what the US is having."[/quote]

DP.  I just don't understand how we will get from A to Z.

It doesn't seem like you do either.  You're just hoping that somehow something good will happen.[/quote]

What do you mean how do we get from A to Z. How did the US get from pre-civil war slavery to post-civil war abolition? Sure, the south "lost" the war, but we can all agree that the entire US, including the south, is better for having abolished slavery. Do you disagree? So even if China "loses" the trade war by agreeing to the conditions requested by the US, their country stands to benefit greatly.

I am also under the impression that you don't seem to know that China has substantially agreed to all of the trade policy changes that the US has requested. The sticking point is that the US has asked for these changes to be codified into Chinese law so that they are enforceable. China's quibble on this point is two folds: privately, they want to be able to cheat on the new policy so they don't like having it written into their law, and publicly, they don't like the appearance that the US is now dictating what they have on their law books - it's a slap on the face for them especially since it was considered a historical period of shame that China leased off parts of itself to western countries due to its debt and having lost the opium war. China does not want to appear to be weak and subjugated by the US. [/quote]

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