Honestly, it is not just USA consumers that will suffer. USA businesses that have to depend on China's supply chain will possibly collapse without the parts and continued inputs. Walmart and Amazon depends on China's manufacturing to stock up on supplies and will find it impossible to do business as usual.
The shit has not hit the fan yet and the USA has yet to face the worst that is yet to come. Stock-piling may keep the problem at bay for a couple of weeks or months, but it cannot be avoided further down the road. That is why Xi is not going to negotiate and let the USA have a taste of its own bitter medicine. China knows that all that talk about luring manufacturing back to the USA is just hot air.
China has gone through worse setbacks and is still standing for more than five thousand years. It will not collapse that easily because of a trade war even if Gordon Chang continues with his cheering on a year-by-year basis.
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Trump is still touting that Xi will come to him to negotiate, with even his White House spokesperson keeping up repeating the mantra that Xi has to call Trump to negotiate soon.
Now, let us sit back a little and think about Trump claiming that China has made many indications that it is going to negotiate. If Chinese spokespeople on the media commenting on those tariffs and telling the USA to grow up and stop its bullying in order to get an adult response from Xi and trying to interpret that as an indication that China is sending out feelers and looking to negotiate, he is delusional.
Further, when asked by the media whether Xi in fact called him, he would not answer that and clamped up. What does that tell us? He was just bragging clear and simple. To a prolific braggart, that call from Xi would be broadcast to the moon if it did happen. And his cronies would be reaping in all the dough with the stock market shooting up. Trump already sent a discreet message to them that this is a good time to buy. To whom was the call being directed to?
The other indication that he is trying to pull a fast one was the move indicating that he is trying to use the Tik Tok fiasco as a bargaining chip, using it as another excuse to extend the deadline for banning Tik Tok. That must be his 'Art of the Deal'. China should stand firm and let Tik Tok be banned. After all, USA citizens have already been well informed by Tik Tok on many issues, and by Rednote in comparing living conditions in USA and China. Suffice to say, what Rednote did in a couple of weeks managed to destroy all the years of propaganda generation and demonization by the USA against China. And last but not least I should also mention DeepSeek putting USA tech giants to shame with its AI app.
Never try to correct your enemy when it is making a big mistake.
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