I love how Trump did this for literally no reason and will now blame others
"Why didn't the lazy DemocRATS stop me? Vote Republican so that we have more MEN in power."
Rightfully so. Our president is a petulant child that tantrums until he gets his way. Until he’s finally told “no” loud enough, he’s going to drive America so deep into the ground that we might never recover.
I wish I could afford a cryogenic freezer so I can just put myself in a glorified fridge and come back 20 - 80 years later, after all this shit is over with and continue with my life.
Now that it's been proven that outright falsehoods will be enough to garner support, this is an effective strategy
And that's terrifying
I unironically believe we're living in a post-truth society at this point. People believe what they want to.
On one hand, I don't like this at all because it gives China more firepower to conquer global trade.
EU already can't say a damn thing about China's civil rights situation because they'll just go "oh so you don't want to trade? cool".
On the other hand... I want to see China pummel an orange.
China has been engaged in trade war with the US, and the rest of the West for that matter, for two decades now.
Since the late-90s, they've been actively and deliberately flooding Western markets to destroy local industries, then bringing the prices back up to ensure foreign dependence. China has actively subsidized their domestic industry so that it can outcompete their Western competitors, and their blind eye towards rampant copyright infringement isn't an accident of bureaucracy, it's actively cultivated by their government both for espionage and economic benefit.
Argue all you want over whether responding the way we have is the right call, but nothing we could possibly do now would make us the instigators of trade war. Trump being a short-sighted, incompetent asshole doesn't give China a free pass.
say what you want about China or Trump, but the US military would slap the Chinese so hard that they'd wake up and forget these trade wars ever even happen.
That wasn't what i was implying, nikomo mentioned how he wanted to see China go to war with the USA (pummel an orange)
I said that our military would most likely beat them back in a defensive situation.
I was. Physical warfare is dead, it's only good against brown people taking cover in caves and hospitals.
Economic and information warfare is how war between large states will be handled from now on.
Oh sure, it's totally because of whatever the fuck you said and not because China has literally hundreds of millions of cheap labour workers who are willing to work for less than $5 a day.
Oh, yeah, looks like I forgot to add deliberately crushing workers' rights organizations and tolerating exploitation of labor (to the point of rampant suicide, and pleas for help showing up in Chinese products, but sure we can pretend they're all willing participants in getting exploited) to the list, thanks for that addition.
You must read the news much if the idea of Chinese manipulation of Western markets is new and unbelievable to you.
YEah things need to change but I don’t think this is gonna be a good way to start that, as you say.
China does need to be told to stop it’s shit, but this is going to go as well as kicking a donkey in the dick while you stand behind it.
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