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Export dependent China (but getting less so) and Germany are not in a good position to have a trade fight with us, in particular.
I have to say China played the game admirably for decades now, getting US manufacturing knowledge transferred wholesale to themselves with enthusiastic help from our treasonous oligarchs who saw an opportunity to avoid paying US workers first-world wages and to avoid the costs of environmental regulation.
I suppose we are better off in a way, having exported our pollution along with our jobs.
mell sayseven if it means large unemployment amongst the working class.
By the end of Obama administration the unemployment was really low
mell saysin the end people want to live a dignified life with a basic income to provide and support their family and be contributing members of society and their family and neighborhood tribes.
You argue for capitalism and you argue for socialism. Can't have both ways
There are good and bad aspects to tariffs. Other countries can charge more for US goods as well. The real question is whether the US can get a better deal than it had. Our owners were happy to give away US jobs because that helped to lower wages for our working class. All of this is really a fight of capital vs labor.