| Jon-Erich said: The problem is when China does things that's competitively unfair. That's how this whole dispute came about. Now, China does not want to cripple the US economically because The US is China's biggest buyer of goods in the world. At this point, China needs the US. A large portion of China's economy involves selling goods to the US. The US however does not need China as much and if China does not want to play fair, then there are plenty of other countries out there that want to sell goods to the US. Also, while setting up in other countries might take some effort, it's not that hard. In fact, the whole notion of having everything made in China is somewhat new. When I was growing up, your products from Nintendo and Sega were made in Japan. Japan made their own stuff. The US made a lot of it's own stuff. The whole idea of moving everything to China only started happening maybe about 20 years ago. So it isn't like China was always that country that made products for everyone and in 10 years, it may be somebody else. |
There's only two things that China wants and both of which are technology and tons of valuable resources. China isn't inherently interested in providing for anyone and that especially applies to the America since they'd prefer not to rely on a geopolitical enemy but like all civilizations there needs to be a surplus to produce their own home grown technology so they hold off the hostility against America for now ...
Both don't need each other. America wouldn't prefer to encourage China and thus are easily replaceable with the likes of India, Vietnam, and Indonesia. China needs those surplus (profit) to fuel and subsidize the development of their own domestic technology so that they could withstand the strictest of the trade embargo from the west and to a lesser extent from the America as well ...
The funny thing here is with nearly every detractor in here they don't want to admit that Trump is right in this instance and his main opposition much of which are the democrats also support the trade war as well!
