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Bluetus

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48. The problem is that China knows they have the upper hand

Reply to MayReasonRule (Original post)

Mon Apr 14, 2025, 03:54 PM

Apr 14

And they know Trump has no clue what an impotent position he is in.

The "Art of the deal" guy went bankrupt 6 times, so it is pretty clear he has no idea how to read the table. The imbalance is so great that China is just laughing at him.

Gee, maybe we shouldn't have turned our whole system over to vulture capitalists and hedge fund crooks who were all too eager to hand everything to China for a quick buck. Trump doesn't understand it, but this battle was lost 10-15 years ago.

But even so, Trump has managed to find the worst possible response, as usual, making a bad situation 10X worse than it needs to be.

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