If you can ask someone one question to determine if they're likely to be a Trump supporter, what do you ask?

And that's not political, but econmoy talk.

The trade war has much more to do with geopolitics and cementing the US's dominant role in the world for the next 50 years. They are all about doubling down on China's troubles that they have been steadily marching towards for 20 years. It is no coincidence Chinese currency controls, Yuan withdrawal from an attempt to become a reserve currency, international restrictions on the movement of Chinese funds, concerted global attacks on Chinese corporations (looking at you Huawei), including detention of their executives, as well as the recent troubles in HK have all popped in at the same time as the trade war started. China is weak and we are just pushing them steadily over the edge.

This moment is about exploiting China's weakness to re-engineer the global order. Economics in this context is just one of many deployed weapons, I hope you agree?

Personally, the trade war has lost me a ton of money, but I still think it is the right thing to do geopolitically. We have a temporary moment in time to take advantage of the global situation before the next recession kicks off some insane festivities and we'd be remiss to not position ourselves as robustly as possible.

Ok, bracing for the downvotes. Sorry, unpopular opinion, even among NS's, since it highlights that Trump is no different then prior presidents and the US is still orchestrating world events. Presidents in the end just react to the course of history, they rarely make it.

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