We have friends who are Chinese. Husband from Taiwan, wife from China

[Stinky The Clown]

Husband is a citizen. Wife is not. Both have close connections with home. Both agree that China will not back down to Citizen Pain's threats.

I have no idea if this is a widespread thought or not.

What do you think?

A. China will escalate

B. China will hold firm

C. China will back down

[Irish_Dem]

1. They may do a combination of all three before this is over.

But it is quite likely they will win and Trump will lose.

[MLAA]

2. I do not think they will back down.

[tman]

3. It doesn't matter who will back down because trump, with help from the media...

will ensure he will take full credit for what ever resolution takes place, even if that means a USA that is weaker, poorer and more isolated than before this debacle began.

[Karadeniz]

4. Cant that govt do basically whatever it has to in order to ride this wave?

[jalan48]

5. One important thing. They are much smarter than Trump.

[Skittles]

7. that's a pretty low bar

ya know?

[jalan48]

8. He's managed to get elected President twice

[Skittles]

10. due to the stupidity of voters and the help of the mainstream media and Russa

a general who worked with Trump said he has the intellect of a fifth grader

try to even IMAGINE a POC or woman behaving like Trump - aw heck, ANY DEMOCRATS - getting ANYWHERE

it's all BULLSHIT

[jalan48]

11. Yes, and yet it happened. I don't think he's stupid, he understands power and is not afraid to use or abuse it.

[Skittles]

12. he is a dumb fuck surrouned by a fucked up cult

he is DISGUSTING

[jalan48]

13. I can't disagree with your sentiment, unfortunately he has the power of the Presidency.

[Skittles]

14. yes, and we are ALL paying for it

over and out

[KT2000]

6. Either A or B

they do NOT back down. They don't have to - they could nationalize all the US companies' products. They have done it before. They could sell all those products to other countries and they would sell them for less in those countries. Xi is a strong man.
My friend from China told me she came here for freedom. She lived through the Cultural Revolution and said that there is not much difference between the two now. I believe she is more shattered than I am.

[Phoenix61]

9. They are a 4,000 year old country. Not a chance in hell

they back down.

[GreatGazoo]

15. D. Both sides will claim victory

when a deal is reached.

Hard to see how a 104% tariff would not pause trade in most items. Product will sit in China or on ships until the tariff comes down.

[usedtobedemgurl]

16. I don't think China will back down.

They hold all the cards. If demented donnie wants to keep throwing these tariffs at China, they hold a huge card. A long time ago Bush Jr decided to let China buy up a bunch of our bonds. Too much, really, considering there were supposed to be limits before that so other countries would not have control of our economic future. All China has to do is cash them in and we collapse. Good work, Bush!

So demented donnie pushes too hard and that recession/depression folks are talking about will come down ten times harder. He thinks he is so smart, but the Chinese can ruin us in an instant.

China is already winning, whether the demented one knows it or not.

[angrychair]

17. A and B

When I was 18, in the days before the Internet, I spent almost 5 weeks writing a paper on the cold war and the Warsaw Pact nations and NATO nations. It was some of my best work if I'm being honest. But in the course of doing that though I also got off on a tangent about China. So compelling was that information it completely reshaped my conclusion. I concluded that at the end of the day, despite all the "red scare" stuff at the height of the cold war, that the real challenge was China.
There are more Chinese than the US and Russia combined. The population, even in the early 80s, was staggering and impossible to understand the potential bottled up by backwards policies and haphazard infrastructure development.
Things have changed. They are genuinely on the verge of becoming the true economic and military powerhouse we have been dreading for decades.
It's a very sobering reality and a future made more likely by putting that moron in office.