Allright. I’ll admit it. I know little about international trade. But anyone who sets down the foot and calls china out is doing something right.
maybe US will suffer, that would be a shame - because the world (except Russia) needs to start treating China as the rouge state it is.
Good of you, and Trump - not a favourite - but he should have credit for standing up against China. Hope, wish and want them [NOT?] to cave in on this matter.
Yeah, and Canada and Europe, too! Their national security threat steel and national security threat cars really had to be tackled head-on.
Look, I guess there is some merit in calling out China as a rogue state concerning trade. Meaning, they are violating international trade rules, and your motivation is that international trade rules be upheld. You cannot then turn around and praise the Trump for going rogue on pretty much the rest of the world, violating trade rules across the board, and hope to be taken seriously as someone who could argue his case consistently. There are rules to follow in trade disputes, institutions to contact, procedures to be invoked, and rulings by independent actors to be honored. That's how a rules-based world of trade is supposed to work, not everyone in a position to do so going rogue, bullying everyone else.
There is a larger point to be made in that the "America First" imbecile works as a wrecking ball taken to the post-WW II international order, largely U.S.-created as it is, diminishing, dismantling, and delegitimizing international institutions and treaties created peaceably to resolve disputes. That's going to haunt us all, probably for decades to come.