China Begins to Question Whether It’s Ready for a Trade War

Re:China Begins to Question Whether It’s Ready for a Trade War by WillEngler on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @11:32PM (#17405585)

"If you owe the bank $100,000 the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100,000,000 you own the bank." Not a perfect parallel to this situation, but a nice aphorism.

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Re:China Begins to Question Whether It’s Ready for a Trade War by peterlk on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @12:26AM (#17405742)

This is simply not true in when both countries can print currency, and the global markets are heavily reliant on the value of those currencies.

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Re:China Begins to Question Whether It’s Ready for a Trade War by api on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @12:17AM (#17405715)

A similar way of looking at it that I've heard: The USA got hundreds of billions of dollars worth of manufactured goods and raw materials, while China got hundreds of billions of rows in a SQL database.

Of course that analysis leaves out the skills, experience, and intellectual property they also got. That's more significant than dollars.

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