If Trump folds, this will confirm, beyond all the propaganda, a fundamental rebalancing of power between China and the US, and an end to the era of US economic dominance
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But China didn't get intimidated and responded in kind, and 21 days after not a single country - not one - made a "deal" with the US against China, or even signaled their intention to do so.
Besides the U.S. economy not being as hegemonic as burgerites imagine it to be, it makes sense that countries would side with the country that’s consistently built mutual growth across the globe rather than the unstable bully. The latter is much more likely to turn on you.
Indeed, the unhinged policy that US pursues makes it pretty clear whom to side with here. Even if countries have differences with China, they can rely on China to act in a rational way which makes the relationship predictable. Meanwhile, the US often runs policy that's counter to its own interests.
I'm surprised that the EU and places like Canada and Australia didn't "take the deal" here. I'm very surprised to see our ruling class here actually put our country ahead of America for a change. Alas we have an election in a month so if the libs get in they'll just do whatever America asks.
I'm out of touch with hexbearian stickers
Is paper tiger a reference to Trump or the US? I may not understand this haha
Ol Trumpster is 0 for 2 on trade wars against China, and now China has more allies if he tries a hot war.
If I was China I would push hard. Like say you'll only resume rare earth exports if the US lifts semiconductor and litography embargos
a dynamic duo tearing down the dread empire
on the phone with his accountant
"what do you mean there's no box on the bankruptcy form for 'country'?"
Most of us on hexbear could manage the empire much more effectively than Trump and co.
You can really see why the dems were so determined to lose the last election, like, even moreso than usual.
Why can that be??
As a Canadian, please put us under China!
That's a 2020's map, maybe is already red
USians had a choice for a managed decline back in 2016, but elected the way of pain. Real Century of Humiliation hours.
USians
Uh, it's USAholes
We're entering the century of find out
Born too late to fuck around Born just in time to find out
I gave you the choice of declining willingly Jack
But you have elected the way of PAIN!
Biden was part of this. Trump's plan is a rootless generalization of what Biden had tried. But instead of "high tech manufacturing", "national security", and "sanctions", Trump's trade war is based in "manufacturing", "making America great", and "tariffs". This is just CHIPS without the subsidies and a more unrealistic plan that isn't backed by NatSec blob. CHIPS has been an absolute failure too. It's simply mystified by the technocratic ghouls of the DNC where if you question them you're "too stupid to get it".
Biden literally put all his chips in the Intel basket. Intel the company who had been riding on financialization and market dominance for so long its bean counters forced it to sleep walk into a complete production failure -- then it was revealed that the same bean counters had painted it into a corner by cutting R&D. They have no answers to the architectural problems in their chipsets.
I think we will soon see the largest sign of the shift take place as America becomes more anti immigrant and China opens up to it, and the brain drain shifts. Worldwide the best and brightest will all want to go to China and nobody will want to go to America. We are already seeing Chinese professionals fleeing America back to China. America relies heavily on imported skilled workers and without them its technology development will stagnate even more than it already has.
Would China really open up to more immigration? I was looking it up and for my job field they def don't need my type.
I feel that immigration in the west is only permitted as much as it is because of how it serves capitalism - having an underclass of workers without the same rights as citizens so they can be exploited.
Exactly, the gap will only widen from here on out.
from am prospect today:
"Trump chickened out" was the top trending topic on China’s Weibo social media website on Wednesday, with more than 150 million views.
and he chickened out FAST, too.
Except now he's unchickening out, probably after seeing the news that people think he chickened out. Infinite free energy will come to America the minute someone hooks up a dynamo to his oscillating positions.
*when
China was just gifted a giant opportunity to to speed up the collapse of dollar hegemony.
And because Trump caused it by being an unlikable belligerent oaf nobody will blame them for pursuing it.
Amusingly, China is now concerned that the US is collapsing faster than they anticipated, and China will have to ramp up capacity to fill in the gap in global markets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzbadVk6M9M
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I unironically believe a large majority of the US population is still high on American Exceptionalism.
Yeah, IMO most otherwise-intelligent anti-Trump Americans still don't believe China can eclipse the US.
But at what cost?
lmao at this reply
"Trump won't fold, he'll just describes folding."
It's the
"I'm not owned" meme