Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to Price Anything

Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by ehnto on Sunday August 31, 2025 @02:18AM (#45080812)

I do think the state of progress in China is vastly underestimated by the west. It has been fast and messy, not evenly distributed, but it is staggering. The rhetoric around them is changing too, I think they are making significant soft power gains. I could easily see them filling the voids that US policy chaos is currently creating.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by generic92034 on Sunday August 31, 2025 @04:47AM (#45081571)

> The rhetoric around them is changing too, I think they are making significant soft power gains. I could easily see them filling the voids that US policy chaos is currently creating.

As long as they are cooperating with Russia at least European countries will have a hard time to accept China's advances.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by remus on Sunday August 31, 2025 @06:39AM (#45082119)

> I could easily see them filling the voids that US policy chaos is currently creating.

More than that, I think China would be mad not to step into the vacuum the US is creating with it's isolationist policies. For years US aid has been extremely influential around the world, doing a huge amount of good (e.g. USAID) and buying relatively cheap influence in many countries. Countries that were reliant on that aid are going to be understandably jaded by their experience with the US and looking for more reliable allies.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by bavell on Sunday August 31, 2025 @08:22AM (#45082636)

China has a demographic time-bomb about to go off in the next decade or two. We'll see if they can survive it.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by mensetmanusman on Sunday August 31, 2025 @05:45PM (#45087386)

It already did, labor force shrunk for the first time a few years ago.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by StopDisinfo910 on Sunday August 31, 2025 @10:45AM (#45083537)

China has been making soft power gains for a decade. They are everywhere in Africa. When I went to Macedonia five years ago, there was a giant screen in the main square explaining how their medical cooperation with China was such a boon for the country. China already is a diplomatic giant.

I think American are partially blinded by the crazy negative propaganda against China you see all the time in the US. They significantly underestimate where China stands and overestimate the impact American tariffs can have.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by ponector on Sunday August 31, 2025 @05:08PM (#45087102)

Imagine how much can China get from cancelling USAID and replacing it with Chinese version!

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by platevoltage on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:36PM (#45085091)

They were making soft-power gains before that maniac we elected showed up. Now our now former allies are leaning on their shoulder.

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