08-28-2019, 08:26 AM
The biggest issue with this trade war is that Trump decided to do this unilaterally. There are other countries that have been looking for the US to lead them in an effort that is aimed at taking down China. Instead, they got a United States that attacked China and its allies in economic ways. Instead of working collaboratively against China, the Trump administration has alienated almost all of the traditional allies we have in these sorts of things, which means that we take the brunt of the punishment, we being the American people.
Two economic behemoths in a trade war results in hefty blows to each other; two heavyweights in the ring. What should have happened would have been like a tag team match where we had at least five or six other partners in this helping to take China down. Trump removed the US from the leadership role in the international community, and then decided to go at it alone. It was a bad policy decision and one the farmers in the midwest are paying for.
Two economic behemoths in a trade war results in hefty blows to each other; two heavyweights in the ring. What should have happened would have been like a tag team match where we had at least five or six other partners in this helping to take China down. Trump removed the US from the leadership role in the international community, and then decided to go at it alone. It was a bad policy decision and one the farmers in the midwest are paying for.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
