Editor’s Note: Trade wars are one thing, but they can get out of hand and lead to real wars, because real war is the ultimate tool of foreign relations, when one or both sides no longer can negotiate.
Trump’s confrontational style, which he developed in the real estate market, does not take into effect the harm he is doing to millions of individuals in his own country and what harm he is doing to the international relationships which the United States of America has had with the world.
If the U.S.A. and China begin to block trade with one another, on account of ridiculously high tariffs, each nation’s economy is going to take massive hits to its stability, and China will stop buying U.S. treasury securities. The end result is that the Chinese won’t be able to sell their products and the United States’ economy will have to start making the products the Chinese once made, with a greatly devalued U. S. dollar and consequent higher price inflation for consumers in the U. S. A..
This cannot happen over night. And all understand that China has a dominance in goods production because it uses slave-labor, paying workers $5 dollars a day.
So the end result in the United States will be higher prices, until Trump settles the trade war with at least those nations which can produce the items China once supplied. Investors in the United States also cannot make decisions about opening new factories there until they know what is going to be the long term outcome of these trade wars. Also, politically Trump is pretty isolated from any adverse reaction in public opinion, since his authority as President to establish tariffs cannot be taken away from him unless Congress with 2/3 majority in both houses pass a bill to do that, which is immune from a veto by the President.
But the end result in China is going to be political instability, because the CCP is already maintaining its control with extreme measures, and they cannot survive an economic downturn politically, since they have maintained it on the narrative that economic growth will soon make all Chinese have a more prosperous life. — Thus a trade war with the U.S.A. will expose this narrative as false, causing widespread increases in dissatisfaction. — And this will lead to the need to have a new narrative to control the masses. And that will strengthen the influence of voices in China which advocate for a military solution. And if they do, then China will with difficulty return to a prosperity based on free trade, since such a development will hurt their reputation as a trade power.
The cavalier attitude many are taking to Trump’s trade wars is simply not realistic. He risks, instead of making American great again, of crashing the U. S. economy going forward; assisting the BRICs nations of gaining an even larger slice of the world economy; and of moving the whole world into a decade of military conflict.
If he wanted to achieve something lasting, it would have been better simply to impose a low tariff, higher than the previous ones, and declare it to be permanent and not subject to negotiation. That would give investors confidence to grow the U.S. industrial capacity to replace the items coming from China at higher prices. He could have targeted tariffs also by items specifically designed to certain products against which he wanted to protect U.S. competitors.
This kind of behavior, from Trump, that “I can do anything I want, because I have the power”, is the kind of malfeasance and egomania that we have seen from Jorge Mario Bergoglio for 12+ years.
UPDATE: As of 1 P. M. Rome Time, April 9, 2025:
Trump has cried uncle, quite sooner than anyone expected, for all countries except China, lowing tariffs to 10% and pausing on any other changes for 90 days, to allow for trade negotiations.
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Well, it looks like the curse of slave labor comes back to hurt the whole world this time. It was immoral to buy goods made in China but we can’t resist a bargain. The opium wars of the past are nothing compared to the present monstrosities.
I do not know how but the perpetrators of all these sufferings will pay sooner or later. The world is now hanging from a thread.
It is a great consolation to have the certainty that God is in control.
Forgive our sins, Lord. Lead us to everlasting life away from this age of madness.
Where does the CCP fit into the equation ? Does anyone know what the wealth of the CCP ? The trade imbalances Trump complains of are disguised through other countries . If true, the tariff war shuts down the income of the CCP. Maybe the problem is the elephant in the room – the one no one wants to discuss, the one country which controls our foreign policy .
Truth is that the US could not continue as it was. The only way to reverse the deindustrialization is to change the incentives. This increases the costs of offshore production and now the US must reduce the size of its government and regulatory structure in order to lower production costs domestically.
I don’t know if Trump will be successful but doing nothing is also not an option. Maybe we will get lucky and the Chinese government will have so much internal struggle that they won’t be in a position to cause much trouble for the US.
Totalitarian regimes tend to be very brittle and coercion doesn’t work well against people who feel they have nothing to lose.
This trade war is really “kicking off” now that China has retaliated against Trump with an 84% levy on US goods, plus the EU imposing tariffs on some US imports:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8vyy35g3mt
I wonder how much of this is under masonic control?
Trump and the EU, definitely Yes……but what about China and its CCP? And how long before the trade war escalates into WWIII??!
“The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man can do unto me.
The Lord is my helper: and I will look over my enemies.
It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man.
It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes.”
[Psalm 117: 6-9]
The Globalist Business Owners in then United States have been doing the same old story for the last century. New England for more than 100 years was the center of the American Textile, Boots, and Shoe manufacturing. But, once labor was to expense they moved their factories to the Deep South of America. Then, by the 1960s & 1970’s the South was too expense. Then they fled to Hong Kong, then South Korea, then Central America. When all the labor in these countries became to expensive they fled to China and to the VIETCONG. Under their false assumption, that increasing the economic prosperity in China and Vietnam would throw off the yoke of Marxist. FALSE. When Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto it was written for all already Industrial Revolution Germany. Thus, Marxism will have become stronger. Marx unfortunately equated the factory manager with the Owner and not the Globalist. Whom will search the world for Slave Labor.