Can it influence things cheaply enough to be worth it? What are they going to do? They can dump goods. But that just means we'll buy a larger proportion of t

Can it influence things cheaply enough to be worth it? What are they going to do? They can dump goods. But that just means we'll buy a larger proportion of those goods from China, when China sells them at a loss. The world is a net beneficiary, even if individual producers lose. They can dump financial products. But again, that just creates a market opportunity -- it's a small transfer of wealth away from whoever else owns those products, but to have a big influence, they'd also have to have a big portfolio, so they would bear a large fraction of the cost. China could try to sell shoddy goods. But we'd just learn not to buy them. China could raise tariffs. But that would just force them to invest more in domestic production while hurting their own economy. Trade wars are not worth their cost. They aren't winnable either, unless someone has overwhelming scale, overwhelming speed, or overwhelming patience.