[joefranklinsrs]

I would argue time is (and always has been) on US's side. US has the more powerful economy, and the consumer market that China desperately needs to keep afloat. In addition, time will allow US companies to move its supply lines out of China without triggering volatility in its stock prices.

[ElBarto]

China is approx. the same size as the USA but with 4 times the population.

The US have the more powerful economy today. But given the above, once China is on a development path then it is simply inevitable that it will overtake the US.

When I say 'time' I'm not looking at the next quarter or next year. That's shortsighted. I'm looking at 20, 50, 100 years.

In fact, I would argue that the US government knows that and that's why they are increasingly alarmed.

[gonvaled]

Not only that: the trade dispute is also consequence of the rising vulnerability of the US in the capital markets.

Once it is discarded as the "one and only option", once real alternatives emerge, once the US loses its dominance, the US could end up being subjected to the same financial constraints that all countries are used to operate in.

That has the powers that be trying to delay the inevitable.

[mac01021]

You think the Trump administration and the US congress are looking 50-100 years in the future?