The Trade War

Our troubled President starts a new fight daily. It was  probably inevitable that he would start fights he can't win. I see no way for tRump to win his trade war with China. 

I see talking heads on TV saying that the war hurts the Chinese more than it hurts us. That's probably true, but the Chinese have been in pain for 5,000 years. They can handle pain. 

The Chinese Communists probably have a long term plan in place. This is not because they are Communists, which is doubtful, but because they are Chinese. They understand time. They are led by a careful leader-for-life. Our President has 16 months left in office if he is lucky.  Those may be the odds he can win his trade war, about 16 out of 5,000.

Some Chinese people will suffer during the next year. The Chinese leaders may not be as uncaring as a Republican senator, but they can probably manage to ignore the pain of ordinary Chinese citizens for 16 months. Or four more years, if it comes to that. 

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