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Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by bassman9000 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:01PM (#17719443)
China's economy would suffer along with everyone else's.

China economy would suffer more.

https://voxeu.org/article/china-s-wto-entry-benefits-us-cons...

https://www.thebalancesmb.com/top-countries-exporting-to-the...

China's #1 customer is the US, by a large margin. Around half of their exports come here. China has far more to lose in a commercial war.

It'd hurt them, but it'd hurt America a lot more.

Nope. The only way they can hurt the US is by economic suicide (dumping all debt). And I mean total annihilation: they'd be shooting themselves. And the USD would suffer, true. But it would recover, US economy has far more autarky.

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