Huge China trade policy reversal

greenblood said:

2001400ex said:

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Greenblood doing work in this thread.

I'll have to find it but I read some stuff by some higher up economists that the white house knows the trade deficits are meaningless. It's just a talking/selling point to get the American Public to buy off on the trade war. This is about bigger fish than "manufacturing jerbs".

• Government sponsored corporate espionage(including IP theft)
  
• Election meddling, Elected official capture, and shell lobbying
  
• International debt capture
  
• Investment manipulation including sanctions violations(NK and Iran)
  

Just to name a few things. Think of how a call for "sanctions" against China would go. Re-framing it as a "trade war" gives the white house a lot more room to dictate terms.

So what you are saying is. Trump has to lie to his base. And his base has to be Dumb enough to believe it. To sell the China tariff war.

I appreciate your honesty.

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