• jonne@infosec.pub
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      4 days ago

      The US is just going to isolate itself by doing a trade war by itself. The only way this was going to really hurt China was if the US somehow got the EU, Canada and Australia to put the same tariffs on China. Instead the US is just pushing everyone into China’s arms and making things more expensive on their end.

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        3 days ago

        When everyone is looking for new trading partners, the only person missing out is the person declining to trade.

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        2 days ago

        Even then China could just say “ok we no send microchip and cell phone” and everyone folds