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For the U.S. and China, it’s not a trade war anymore – it’s something worse
- euroclydon 7y agoThe graph I found most interesting was: Instead, a member of the Chinese Politburo harangued them for almost an hour, describing the U.S.-China relationship as a “clash of civilizations” and boasting that China’s government-controlled system was far superior to the “Mediterranean culture” of the West, with its internal divisions and aggressive foreign policy. Specifically the "Mediterranean culture", which I assume refers to the Romans, and their careening from one leadership extreme to another, civil wars, warmongering, alternating between competence/incompetence and morality/corruption, etc.
- ycombonator 7y agoBasically they won’t commit to forced technology transfers and IP protections and finally there is a president who holds them accountable.
- simonblack 7y agoThe 'Thucydides Trap' strikes again. Things are going to get very much worse before they start to get better.(If they ever do get better, that is.) Several years ago, I calculated that Spring-Summer 2020 was the latest date that the US could initiate and hope to prevail in a Big War against China. At that time I had no idea how the US would manage to bring that about. Things seemed so friendly back then. Over the last year or so, I am finding more and more that I was almost prescient about the time-line.