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I have the feeling that the whole trade war starts from a pile of nonsense.
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technix:

--- Quote from: soldar on May 31, 2019, 11:46:38 am ---
--- Quote from: OwO on May 31, 2019, 10:59:25 am --- Not our fault that the US isn't selling stuff that people want to buy at prices they are willing to pay.
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I am reminded of a funny anecdote decades ago when America and Japan were negotiating trade deals and America was trying to force Japan into buying more American cars.

Some Japanese politician or negotiator was asked about this and his response was something along the lines of "Why should the Japanese buy cars that even Americans don't want to buy? Maybe first they can try to get Americans to buy American cars."


History repeats itself. I remember when all the things being said about China today were being said about Japan.

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I am reminded of a Microsoft story. That was early days of Microsoft Exchange, during which Microsoft themselves was using UNIX servers for internal Email. Microsoft had diffilulty selling Exchange, often facing this rebuttal: don't sell me a product even youself is not willing to use. That prompted Microsoft to start the proven to be painstaking process of migrating all their internal mail system to Exchange.

So seriously, eat your own dogfood before selling it. It applies to companies, it applies to countries too.
apis:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-us-china-trade-stalemate-20190531-story.html

US government is starting to get openly racist:
"whereas with Beijing, Washington faces a non-white culture".

I wonder why China haven't hit Boeing yet:
"Then there's Boeing, the single biggest American exporter to China. Sales to China last year accounted for more than 20% of the company’s commercial aircraft revenue."
technix:

--- Quote from: apis on May 31, 2019, 06:46:04 pm ---US government is starting to get openly racist:
"whereas with Beijing, Washington faces a non-white culture".

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For a president that built its election strategy on being openly racist, it is more likely than not that his voter base expect this type of behavior out of him.


--- Quote from: apis on May 31, 2019, 06:46:04 pm ---I wonder why China haven't hit Boeing yet:
"Then there's Boeing, the single biggest American exporter to China. Sales to China last year accounted for more than 20% of the company’s commercial aircraft revenue."

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Boeing is also one of the biggest US arms supplier. China need to assess the risk that sanctions on Boeing might be interpreted as an act of war. Should Chian and US be at war it is more likely said war is nuclear, dragging human civilizations as we know it down with it.
Bud:
In regard to the baby Trump baloon - ridiculing the opponent is a common tactic to use when you run out of arguments in a dispute. Any troll's handbook will tell you that.
Simon:

--- Quote from: blueskull on June 01, 2019, 05:12:32 am ---
--- Quote from: Bud on June 01, 2019, 05:09:26 am ---In regard to the baby Trump baloon - ridiculing the opponent is a common tactic to use when you run out of arguments in a dispute. Any troll's handbook will tell you that.

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Correct. He is no where as stupid as many think.

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No not really. The baloon was not something the british politicians made because they don't know what to do anymore. It was made by ordinary citicens that have no say in anything and feel powerless so all they are left with is to ridicule him. They wanted to fly that baloon at a height which in london counts as airspace because it is heavily restricted and they were denied permission.
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