Mac1958
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- Dec 8, 2011
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I have to keep saying this, I guess. I get it on every topic.Trump promised us that "trade wars are easy to win". He thought he could just do his usual carnival barker routine and steamroll the Chinese, because he'll always be controlled by his narcissistic personality disorder.Trump has no plan A, B or any other plan against China as the trade war is backfiring and will slowly envelop US technology manufacturers.
The Chinese aren't going to be intimidated by a cartoonish man-child.
Still, I very much hope you're wrong. Maybe the people actually doing the negotiating for us actually know what they're doing. That's still entirely possible.
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What is your proposal? We should roll over and just forget any trade negotiation with China? Go back to the status quo? At some point one of our Presidents had to grow a pair and make China abide by the same rules as others in the WTO. Now is the time as our economy is stronger than them and we can hold out longer than they can. I would advise Trump to get some of the other countries with whom he has already reached trade deals, to join forces with the US against China. Unfortuantely, many of those countries are run by not-guts leftists, so not sure that is plausible at this point. China WILL give in if Trump is re-elected. They may save face in some way, but make not mistake about it...the US will be in better shape afterwards than it was prior to the negotiations.
Our choice is not to either (a) "roll over and just forget any trade negotiation with China", or (b) act like Trump acts.
There are other ways to approach complex issues than to beat on them with a stick and appear to be unstable and immature.
I can not make it any more simple or clear than that.
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