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by makomk 2974 days ago
I'm astounded how little discussion the effects of China imposing tariffs on Chinese people has been getting really. Everyone's happy to talk about how imposing tariffs would just hit poor people the hardest and how retaliatory tariffs are a terrible idea when the topic is American tariffs, but the discussion of Chinese tariffs on food is all about the effects on American farmers - there's very little about them hurting China, even though they should if we applied those same theories on tariffs to them.