[CountSessine]

For the record, I'm not really sure how I feel about this plan. Free trade with China uplifted 700 million people (in China) from poverty.

OTOH, if you believe that China is basically Germany circa 1938 (and indeed, China in 2025 is the largest and most successful fascist state in all of history), then kneecapping China's economy makes plenty of strategic sense.

But we could always just keep buying Hitler's Volkswagens - that's the direction our incentive gradient points in. The US doesn't need to be the global police - we could always just let China have Taiwan, the Senkakus, the Ryukyus, etc...

[LPisGood]

I think what a lot of people miss when they talk about America being the “global police” is that almost always the law (so to speak) that the “global police” are enforcing is enforcing is the advancement of American interests.

[CountSessine]

And yet the near-term interest is to keep buying Volkswagens from Hitler.

[LPisGood]

If Trump’s anti-trade policies were targeted at China and China alone, this analogy would be applicable.

[CountSessine]

Read Miran’s paper.

[LPisGood]

I have read it, albeit not every single word.