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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by AngryData on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:48AM (#45080664)
Why does China's growth need to be curbed or opposed in any way? What does that accomplish? The only thing we need to be doing is ensuring our own stability, be decently self reliant, and improve the lives of our citizens. It is in inevitable fact that China will eventually surpass us economically, they have far more people, fighting that is just crabs in a bucket fighting over who gets to stand on top of the others.
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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by ehnto on Sunday August 31, 2025 @02:27AM (#45080848)
The US has been working with China for decades economically. The rhetoric around them being an enemy is very peculiar, since the US and China have been tightly coupled economic partners for decades now.

That said however, the US economy relies quite heavily on the international USD hegemony, and China being a bigger economy does threaten that quite directly. It would be surprising for them to drop the USD, but it is a significant risk.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by buyucu on Sunday August 31, 2025 @04:58AM (#45081629)
Western Elites can not stomach a non-Western country prospering. It goes against everything they believe in.
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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by simonh on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:01PM (#45084767)
Japan? South Korea? Taiwan? Singapore? Saudi and the Gulf States?
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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by buyucu on Monday September 01, 2025 @03:18AM (#45090309)
Saudi and Gulf States are run by violent dictators who are Western puppets. Did you forget about MBS 'the Bonesaw' ?
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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by simonh on Monday September 01, 2025 @05:29PM (#45096795)
He did that because he’s a western puppet? The west puts up with them despite such vile behaviour. It’s simply absurd to argue the west can’t tolerate prosperous non western nations when there are many of them we get on with just fine, or despite severe cultural differences.

The USA spearheaded integration of China with the international trading system. Their development was an intentional goal.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by buyucu on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @03:01AM (#45099943)
to screw the Soviets. It was a clever political move to weaken the Soviet Union.
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