Translation:
A better translation of the most interesting part of this announcement:
"Based on the current tariff levels, there’s no possibility that U.S. products would be accepted in China’s market. If the U.S. would continue to to raise tariffs on China, China would just simply ignore it."
= There is no point for China to raise tariffs any further past this point because US goods have already become completely uncompetitive in China now.
No offense comrade but this reads like a MAGA fever dream. It's all wildly unrealistic and detached from the realm of what is possible in reality given how international trade actually works. It also vastly overestimates the US's capabilities. The Europeans couldn't even properly decouple their energy from Russia, but the US is going to decouple from China? Lol. No. Not happening. You don't just rebuild entire industries and supply chains overnight. If the economy crashes it's not going to be a magic ticket to re-industrialization, it's going to be complete pandemonium and things will spiral very badly, very fast. This isn't some 5D chess move, it's a bluff with a very mediocre hand.
Not suspicious or incriminating at all...
First of all I want to commend you (or whoever is the author of this text) on an excellent post. This analysis is clear and logical and most likely correct, and we should all keep these facts in mind.
But all of this is only part of the picture. What is being described here are the domestic effects of these policies, and certainly these matter, yet for the majority of the world it is the impact on the US' external capabilities that they are primarily interested in when they analyze the downstream effects of US policy. And while these policies of controlled demolition help the oligarchy further entrench domestic control they also weaken the US state as a whole, they weaken its economic and industrial capabilities, and by extension reduce its ability to project military and soft power.
An impoverished, borderline pauperized working class does not make for an effective work force. Productivity will plummet. Diminished living standards will not attract foreign talent. Innovation will dry up. Again we see here the myopic short term thinking of neoliberal capitalism, wherein they will cannibalize their own economic base in order to consolidate monopolies and raise asset/stock prices, yet they have no plan for how to rebuild those capabilities that enabled them to achieve their global position of dominance in the first place.
And under different geopolitical circumstances this race to the bottom may perhaps not be such a poor strategy, if they were able to drag down the rest of the world along with them. But they can't. Not anymore. Not when there are alternatives, when there are other societies that embrace real growth and development over neoliberal de-growth for the sake of establishing a neo-feudal dystopia. The US oligarchs can drag the US and their most loyal vassal states down with them (though some of those may even wise up and jump ship), but it is becoming increasingly clear that the global majority will not go along with this civilizational suicide.
And given that the US exists in this global context, given that the domestic power of the western ruling classes and their ability to maintain control and keep their populations docile has historically relied on the ability to extract super-profits from the global south, if this ability vanishes due to falling behind the rest of the world technologically and economically, then it is only a matter of time until we will see an internal revolt. There is only so far you can push people before they snap. The question we should be asking is do they, meaning the ruling classes, even have any other alternative at this point? And if not then we need to be prepared for what we know will follow as a consequence of these policies of deliberate destruction.
The author is pro-Russian, yes.
Well it depends whose globe i look at doesn't it? One side says one thing the other says another.
The point i was making is that most of the lines on the map that we call borders are really arbitrary and the arguments why they should be one way and not the other depend on your point of view. And the border between India and China is especially dubious in legitimacy because it was drawn by the British, and at a time when one of these two countries didn't even exist/was a colony and the other was too weak to defend its sovereign interests and territory.
And i don't understand the point you're making about rivers.
It's still a precarious situation but with this law now passed at least they have backed off a couple of steps away from the ledge.
Unfortunately international diplomacy is just not that simple... Even if Russia knows that they can't trust any deal with the West they have to at least be seen making an effort, acting as the "adults in the room". That's how they maintain their reputation with the global south as a reasonable, rational and trustworthy partner. China does the same thing. And this has been a successful strategy at winning the rest of the world over to their side.
Without the ruthlessness of Biden, Trump could never get it off the ground in a million years.
This. If Republicans tried to do it the opposition from the population would be too much. It takes a Democrat administration to get the masses to consent to fascism. Democrats are experts at demobilizing popular resistance movements.
It's only free if you don't consider the fact that the rest of the world pays for it. The US can create money out of thin air without negative consequences to themselves, but only because they offload those consequences onto everyone who uses the dollar as reserve currency and settlement of international trade.
This will no longer be possible to do once that global financial hegemony is eroded. Then the US will finally have to pay for its own lunch.
So were the fights in 1944 but that war was still essentially decided after Stalingrad.
Absolute gigachad.