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AI8706's avatar

Economists I read have been talking about how China needs to reorient its model away from exporting their way to wealth and toward domestic consumption for… oh, a decade and a half now. They still appear not to want to do it.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

"Make America Great Again" is taking on a melancholic hue, for so many reasons, but tRump's tariff moves — and more importantly his and his supporters' takes on tariffs — is only adding to the country's diminishing amour propre. China is a proud country, with a committed citizenry, and it's a mug's game to keep trying to argue "we Numbah One", now if not forever.

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