Someone got owned by AI under a mao video
magahats really think the US made china lmao
lol @ all of them spamming mao speeches on the US being a paper tiger
So I’m wondering how Trump is going to wiggle out of this one. He can announce a 90 day pause with some lie about how China begged him to come to the table to save face domestically, but that maneuver might not actually bring China to negotiations. China seems to be in “never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake” mode so they aren’t going to make overtures without some sort of tangible concession.
The pro tariff crowd seems to be thinking that China will go into a recession before the US does, so the US will win the game of chicken, but China probably has way more options than the US does for responding to a recession, especially given the continued flight from the US bond market. No one is going to want to lend us the money it’ll take to weather a serious downturn given the fact that we’re run by crazy people.
So, assuming Trump is made to see the warning lights again, what does he ask for? He has jiu-jitsu’d himself into a no-win position because reshoring all of the manufacturing that left four decades ago is a nonstarter. I guess he could demand that China agrees to import a certain amount of US goods to lower the trade deficit, but they made that offer last time and then immediately ignored it because why wouldn’t they? So what is a non-idiotic offer to China to get talks started? What will their opening demands be?
It’s really not clear what he can do here. He might just flip the table and start a war with Iran as a distraction though.
That certainly does seem to be where things are headed
Comedy is legal again
The stuff that makes me happy 😀 . Let’s go China!
