u/magic_lobster_party — magic_lobster_party

”Bomb has been defused”

Next week he will brag about how he made a tremendous deal, and lower the tariffs as a result. What tremendous deal he made will be left unspecified, but Fox News will use this opportunity to report how great of a deal maker he is.

Happy to see that Polestar has overtaken Tesla in Sweden now. Hope it stays that way.

Truly the art of the deal

China has everything to gain from a weakened America. These tariffs will hurt China short term. Long term it’s America that will be hurt the most.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

A loss in sales of Chinese goods in America will hurt China.

”Trade war resistant” is probably closer to reality. It’s a major disruption that’s going to hurt their economy, but they can probably adjust. China can always sell their goods to some other country.

In grand scheme, I suppose America is more dependent on China than China is on America. It’s going to be difficult for America to replace Chinese goods.

China has a huge language barrier. Few Chinese know English well, and most non-Chinese don’t know Chinese well. It’s not going to be easy for China to capitalize on this opportunity, although it’s likely they will manage to get a piece of the cake.

European countries has less of this language barrier.

It was always a given that China would eventually dethrone US as a global super power. I never expected US to basically hand it over to them.

Finally a Trump policy I can get behind. I suppose broken clocks are right twice a day.

That’s not a mutually exclusive or

As John Green put it: we can no longer say that the deaths of tuberculosis are caused by a bacteria. The deaths of tuberculosis are caused by human choice. We have the choice to live in a world where millions don’t die by this treatable disease, but we chose not to.

I’m eagerly waiting for his upcoming book about this terrible disease.