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That article is already completely wrong within the first few lines. The strategy behind tariffs is to equalize trade imbalances and tariffs on the other sides. Duh. No grand strategy needed. If the EU imposes tariffs to the tune of 25% for decades Trump needs a strategy for his finally retaliatory tariffs?! lol get outta here.

And I'm not even a big fan of tariffs but these putzes suddenly claiming to be economical wizzes just because orange man baad! have to stop.

All Trump is trying to do is reverse the gross sell out of our country to foreign nations to enrich a few LibbyFuck Royalty (*cough* Clinton Foundation, Dianne Feinstein et alia*cough*) to serve Globalism. We have become a net exporter of wealth, and he is trying to keep the jobs and wealth here.

It really does get old how all these economic "geniuses" want to mislead people about the true nature of what's going on. When I call people on this in person they usually scoff or roll their eyes, but it's a fake evasive move (they know it's true, and roll their eyes as a lame attempt to invoke the sarcastic "omg really?" defense that those who really have no argument resort to)

Way before Trump started w/ the tariffs he said the tariffs against China were primarily a bargaining chip to get them behave and give up some of their advantage. He said that the tariffs would hurt both sides, but that it would hurt them more, and that we have more capacity for the pain. It was a very simple, logical, strategic, straightforward argument that most people immediately knew was true because the trade imbalance is currently in china's favor, big time, and so they stand to lose more.

One thing I will agree with in the article is this:

There is no telling how much money his minions have made in short or long selling on the stock market thanks to insider information.

Every market swing following trade news has made me wish I had an ear into his administration. But, the same goes for news from every presidential administration.

China is mad because they have to bribe anew every LibbyFuck yokel who gets elected and wanders down the pike. If we had a nice lifetime dictatorship, the bribes would be more reasonable, concentrated and predictable.

This is the 2D verses 3D chess thing. Trade war with China isn't about all this minor stuff that a trade war isn't going to solve. (News alert: China will agree to whatever and then continue to ignore all intellectual property.)

China is rapidly taking over the world. For example, many countries in Africa continent owe China an amount of money that will be impossible to repay. Without Trump's plan to crater China's economy and force them to retreat, China will own African within 50 years. Ditto for many other countries. Heck, China has buying up corporations, resources, and real-estate right here in the USA.

The main goal of the "trade war" is the crater the China economy and force them to retreat militarily. No amount of pressure is going to cause China to suddenly become a 1st-world economy open to lawful foreign business.

Every time I hear some hysterical fool talking about the impending world war 3, I wonder how they think that would play out? Where would this war be? Would it be a shooting war? I can't picture it. Would it be 2 countries shooting long range missles at one another?

The first comment on the article:

What you should write about is how heavily the CIA is involved in the American staged protests in Hong Kong.

LOL! "Poor Communist China is being victimized by Protesters! Everybody, go out an protest Trump -here's some videos from Press.tv and RT!"

komputodo says

Every time I hear some hysterical fool talking about the impending world war 3, I wonder how they think that would play out? Where would this war be? Would it be a shooting war? I can't picture it. Would it be 2 countries shooting long range missles at one another?

It could be one large and aggressive country suddenly declaring they own all the physical assets of another country because that other (poor) country borrowed money and couldn't repay.

It could be so many people from one country vote in another country's "democratic" elections that the country essentially controls the other country.

It could be one country declaring ownership of various uninhabited island and building military bases on there then declaring all water and land territory around that to be theirs.

China has far, far more debt than anybody suspects. The Government simply turns over loans to/from the State Owned Enterprises.

As posted elsewhere, when you look at tax filings, nighttime light emissions, and electricity consumption, the claimed GDP numbers don't match up.