China's retaliation is incisive, decisive and painful. China hits where it is going to hurt most, not on irrelevant things like football club ownership, operas, movies, and others based on childish tantrums.
Just ask the Australians about their iron ore and seafood exports when it tried to play havoc with China. Just ask the Philippines about their bananas and durian adventure by continuing with its antagonizing moves against China. China just let them have a taste of the Chinese banana and durian market, let them grow as much as they like in anticipation, and then killed the fattened hopes of their farmers. No rhetorics, no shouting, no need the MSM to blare, just clinical killing without having to fire a shot. Mexico is next on China's radar to be taught a painful lesson if it wants to play Russian roulette with China.
Trump is coercing the EU to raise tariffs on Chinese goods, and the Europeans are wary and paranoid about the consequences. The energy sanctions the EU placed on Russia is already destroying the industrial base of Germany. More of tariffs against China is going to sink the German industrial juggernaut into oblivion. Perhaps Trump is rooting for that to happen as he thinks he can benefit from the misery of others, with manufacturing moving to the USA. Fat hope when he is increasing tariffs on imported raw materials that are already crippling USA manufacturing. Why would German companies want any of that is mindless.
Trump honestly has no more cards to play against China and is just using plenty of rhetorics and hysterical moves trying to scare the Chinese. Trump's trade war is bereft of alternative sources to provide USA the products that China exported to them. Trump's tariff war also is a hollow move with no supply chains to back up his plan while China is already fixated on a complete decoupling. What Trump is doing is just increasing more taxes on his own citizens, hurting more of his base rather than hurting exporters from other countries. USA farmers have nowhere else to sell their bumper crops of soya beans and corn without the Chinese market, that has already moved elsewhere. Brazil and Argentina are laughing all the way to the bank taking over the market that was previously the USA farmer's territory.
Countries around the world are moving towards a multipolar world, away from the US$ hegemony and are working towards a faster de-dollarization, without the USA being involved at all. Perhaps ignorance is really bliss. Ironic.
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China should be able to live in relative peace by a complete decoupling with the USA. I think Xi is fully committed to do that now, knowing he has all the cards. China does not claim what it cannot achieve by saying it is ready to fight any war against the USA. That is how well-prepared China has achieved over the last three decades.
Sun Tsu's Art of War, written more than two thousand five hundred years ago has this little advice - Know your enemy first. With that, half the battle is won. China has studied the USA for the last few decades, while the USA knew practically nothing about China. The USA was prepared to use propaganda to demonize and belittle China and has grown to believe in its own lies. That is the beauty of it.
The USA is trying to spin the narrative that China is against the whole world with the further sanctions of more rare earth metals. How about also framing Trump's tariff as against the whole world, which realistically is the case. And those tariffs are not just against humans. Even penguins are not spared. The problem is USA leaders never look at themselves in the mirror before they opened their mouths.
How many small countries really have a need for large amounts of rare earth elements when they have no manufacturing to speak of. Countries like those in the Himalayas, countries reliant largely on agriculture, countries inhabited by polar bears and penguins.
The world would rather China keep rare earth metals from falling into the hands of rogue and terrorist states like the USA so that they cannot keep producing weapons to target every Tom, Dick and Harry. Why would China even want to help the USA with rare earth metals for them to make more weapons, when their sole intention was to use them to destroy China? Who in his right mind would do that?
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