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by imtringued 1684 days ago
It's not post-sanity. It's perfectly stupid. When you buy Chinese widgets the Chinese don't spend the money on your electric cars (otherwise they wouldn't be able to run a trade surplus). They buy the electric car company. I hope it's clear that this speculation must happen, because doing anything that is not speculative would require abandoning the idea of a permanent trade surplus or deficit.