Yet, the other clowns in his administration are urging him on, cheering him to push the USA over edge of the cliff. Instead of advising him and correcting him to take the correct path, they are just fawning and massaging his ego right in front of him to garner loyalty points.
Manufacturing is not moving into the USA when tariffs are making raw materials like steel and aluminum too expensive for making things inside the USA to be meaningfully competitive. Job creation is not what is as reported but just a mirage that is soon to disappear months down the road. We now know job creation is a gas balloon being blown up into grotesque proportions for boasting purposes. Other countries are not paying the tariffs and internally USA consumers are footing the bill. Tens of billions are being collected from USA consumers, not from exporters in other countries. More fun is on the cards as the USA moves nearer to the end of the year.
Trump is in desperate straits as farmers are clueless how to deal with agricultural produce like soya beans and corn that have just been harvested but lying in warehouses and silos waiting to rot instead of having been shipped out. Trump is now pressuring China to buy more, but why would China oblige when Trump is out to destroy China. Buying from Russia and Brazil is now more meaningful and caring for countries inside BRICS supporting de-dollarization. China will never let such an opportunity be hijacked by helping Trump out of his trouble. Why help a country that is not grateful for the help as during the 2008 financial crisis, and who has turned around to do China in. Only stupid countries will do that.
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If I were China, helping the USA would be the last country that should be helped. Other than that, I would also mention Mexico, Italy and Argentina. These are snakes in the eagle's shadow that are turning around to bite China.
ReplyDeleteIf I were China, helping countries in BRICS should be the absolute priority. And with that Vietnam, Myanmar and other friendly South-East Asian countries comes to mind for Chinese investments. I mentioned 'friendly' to distinguish some that are less than friendly and could be traitorous.
Further than those, there are countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other countries like Nepal and Bhutan eager to progress with more foreign investments. Not to forget those friendly countries in Africa as well.
The world is so big, and the Global South so full of opportunities that China can do business with. If the West wants to close their borders to Chinese investments, other doors will willingly open up.
Trump is using high handed tactics against Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to invest more in the USA to help with Trump's manufacturing push. Those touted investments were all part of the deal over tariffs with arm twisting so blatant that TSMC is nervous about shifting 50% of its chip production to the USA, which means even the high-end stuff that the USA is looking at with green eyes. If TSMC goes to the USA, Taiwan is no longer of strategic importance to the USA. Keep that in mind.
Amidst all the rosy picture painted by the USA about chip manufacturing in Arizona, China can easily take care of them by cutting off rare earth minerals essential for chip production. Right now, Arizona does not even have the supply chains necessary for making chips and TSMC is reported to be shipping chemicals and even super pure water from Taiwan to Arizona to keep its chip production moving. Just imagine the costs involved and what those chips are going to cost. What markets are they looking at? Enough said.
Vietnam is practising bamboo diplomacy..meaning they follow the wind direction. So if the wind now blow toward US, they will kick China out. Therefore China have to be very careful with Vietnam, as it is now asking China to help complete their high speed rail way which was abandon by the Jap.
DeleteThe Vietnam Government, of North Vietnamese origin, are more conducive to relations with China. South Vietnamese people, long under foreign occupation and influence are more antagonistic towards the Chinese. This has perhaps been due to the help that China gave to the North Vietnamese that resulted in the defeat of the USA and South Vietnamese. Moreover, there are still many South Vietnamese illegitimate children fathered by USA soldiers during the days of South Vietnam under USA control and left behind by the USA soldiers. They could be bitter about their fate relating to the Chinese.
DeleteWhat can Japan, South Korea and Taiwan do to help the Americunts?
ReplyDeleteMore gaslightings and farts!
Trump is holding them hostage and extorting money from them.
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