Hong Kong protesters form 28-mile human chain demanding democracy

I mean, yes? It takes a lot of investment to ramp up manufacturing infrastructure in other countries to cover China's shortfall to the US. It depends on if people want to invest in that manufacturing while uncertain about if the tariffs are real or how long they will last.

China can just sell its slave labor products to Europe, and the US can't sell its excess ag products elsewhere.

I'm not sure why you think 'we will just buy elsewhere' is somehow easier than China's position of 'we will just sell elsewhere'. The difference is 'elsewhere' doesn't necessarily have the infrastructure in place to sell things to us, while 'elsewhere' more likely does have money to buy things from China.

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