Re:China wasn’t ready for the trade war with the United States
by kermitismyhero on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:05AM
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>"I think ultimate success is regime change ... the goal is quite simply to break the back of this totalitarian mercantilist economic society."
The really funny thing is that Bernie Sanders' supporters have the exact same goal in mind.
Re:China wasn’t ready for the trade war with the United States
by Fjolsvith on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:31AM
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Why would that be funny? America broke the Soviet Union with economic power. A lot of people still remember this.
I'd like to see the Chinese equivalent of the Berlin Wall falling.
Re:China wasn’t ready for the trade war with the United States
by kermitismyhero on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @03:27PM
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I think it's funny because the entrenched establishment politicians like Steve Bannon are also the ones most opposed to Sanders and his allies.
Re:China wasn’t ready for the trade war with the United States
by mlindner on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:44PM
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It's not a surprise that a decent number of Bernie voters voted for Trump instead of Hillary. At least I saw a lot of highly upvoted comments on Reddit from people saying they were going to do that after Bernie lost.
Also good: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-pri...
"I think ultimate success is regime change ... the goal is quite simply to break the back of this totalitarian mercantilist economic society."
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/07/719947020/inside-the-white-ho...
The other thing going on, alluded to in the same article, is attacking China is red meat to Trump's base (42% of the American population, according to a recent poll). He's built it up into one of the primary reasons behind the collapse of American manufacturing. If the China bogeyman goes away with a splashy deal, will the base be satisfied? Or will something else have to be dialed up to replace it as a political and trading punching bag?