The Trump-Induced Incoming Chinese Collapse

Just another shocking victory.

Boring.

At some point, there must be an “adjustment,” as economists would put it, and a “crisis” as the rest of us would describe it. Moreover, that adjustment, or crisis, has to be large because it has been delayed for so long

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That's how things work in reality isn't it.

Grand Mal said:

China is an inevitability. Nearly 1/4 of the world is ethnically Chinese, and in a full-blown trade war the pampered-to, coddled and self-entitled American consumers will tolerate deprivation for about two months while the Chinese people will hunker down and unite in an effort that they're willing to make last a generation.
You have no hope of winning a trade war with China.

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That's kind of what I've been trying to say, only perhaps you introduced something I failed to point out. Thank you.
Yes, Americans will go into near hysterics, retail jobs will disappear, shortages will become phenomenal, and desperation will sink in.
Meanwhile across the water, the Chinese will hunker down, just as you said. They will be told that they must hunker down, that the long term goal is to tame the belligerent American beast, and they will be told that the Chinese people will emerge victorious and wealthier than ever before.
And whether that turns out to be the case or not is immaterial, it's what they will be told.

And nary a single bullet will be fired. The U.S. and its economy will have become largely irrelevant to them, except as investment opportunities for Chinese who wish to vacuum up depressed assets at fire sale prices.

It is then that Americans will finally learn just how intertwined their economy has become with the people of The Great Wall.
They will learn too late.

Grand Mal said:

China is an inevitability. Nearly 1/4 of the world is ethnically Chinese, and in a full-blown trade war the pampered-to, coddled and self-entitled American consumers will tolerate deprivation for about two months while the Chinese people will hunker down and unite in an effort that they're willing to make last a generation.
You have no hope of winning a trade war with China.

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The first loss Iowa took on tariffs wasn’t even farm-related, unless you use the term ‘solar farm’. Iowa is very progress-ive on solar; at the lowest level — houses, small businesses, farm houses and complexes. Not big fields like say Illinois or Nevada.

A long-range plan I have after transition is for a solar/wind farm — hoping for 20 acres.

Linc said:

The first loss Iowa took on tariffs wasn’t even farm-related, unless you use the term ‘solar farm’. Iowa is very progress-ive on solar; at the lowest level — houses, small businesses, farm houses and complexes. Not big fields like say Illinois or Nevada.

A long-range plan I have after transition is for a solar/wind farm — hoping for 20 acres.

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China is targeting the electoral map where Trump wins were thin, hoping to get him beat so your typical multinational “yes man” can get back in there and keep selling American workers down the river as usual.

Where is Meuller on electoral interference? He doesn’t want competition for Trumps scalp!

Some of the people here are just ridiculous. Just because China has gone through economic hardship before doesn't mean they can easily go through it again. Imagine if the USA went into another significant recession right now? The previous recession would hurt us, not help us, because our debt is still on the higher side. Our debt:GDP is around 100%-110%, though, where China's is around 400%. And while having a lot of people gives a lot of potential labor, those people need to eat whether they are working or not. What does that mean? It means that China needs to feed about 5 times the amount of people the USA needs to feed. Furthermore, the USA economy is far more diversified and is the agriculture capital of the world. Nobody, and I mean nobody, can fight an economic war like the USA can. As it stands, we make up 25% of the world's economy, and China is depending on USA money coming to their country to help their banks loan money at a time when money is likely on it's way out of China to the USA due to rising American interest rates.

About this comment about how 1/4th of the world is ethnically Chinese. I mean, okay, but China is actually made up of 56 different ethnic groups, and I don't find this point about how many are ethnically Chinese to be that important anyways. The Chinese population also don't get along with their government very well, so this idea that they will just do whatever the government tells them to do is very far off, especially given because they know how that turns out with starvation. And about their government, President Xi has already faced numerous coups. Do you think that would get better if he chose to get into a massive economic war with the USA? No, it would only get worse. Not to mention this could easily escalate to a military war, in which the USA would dominate China. Some of you guys say things so confidently and yet you are so wrong. It's amazing.