Here is an excellent op/ed by Leslie Fong former editor of Straits Time. The US completely misjudge the historic burden of China Xi just cannot give in to those outrageous demand. It will tantamount to surrendering Chinese sovereignty and their right for better future No sane leader will accept that . Least of all Xi who has strong sense of history and China's place in the world.
China will fight this trade war to bitter end!. In hindsight his early purge of his detractor now can be seen as preparation for this trade war To unite the whole administration and military behind him
Asian Angle by Leslie Fong
Trump’s biggest mistake in US-China trade war: not realising the Chinese will never genuflect again
- China’s collective memory of a century of humiliation by foreign powers, beginning with the First Opium War, has steeled its resolve
- American politicians just do not understand the power of national self-esteem that underpins China’s resilience, writes Leslie Fong
Published: 11:30am, 1 Jun, 2019
This article states only from the angle of psychology of Chinese. But what is more important is the fact that
the US has lost its qualification to talk with China any issues regarding China's sovereignty, after it failed to win the Korean war against China in the 1950s.
It is universally accepted that you would never get through negotiation what you couldn't get in the battle field. (世间普遍认同,战场上得不到的东西,你休想通过谈判得到。) Trump's biggest mistake is that he doesn't know this law, even though he proclaims he is a genius in negotiation. Trump is so stupid that he thinks he could use high tariff to pressure China to give up its sovereignty on issues such as territory (Taiwan), currency (RMB), economic policies (SOEs),... etc. He probably even thinks he could force China to accept a regime change through trade war. His stupidity and arrogance are beyond description.
China may agree to spend some trade surplus money to buy US goods. Anything beyond this is off the table.
China's national sovereignty is nonnegotiable. It is earned by Chinese people through armed struggles against foreign aggressors and their puppets from the 1840s to the 1950s. To have Chinese give up their sovereignty, Trump need fight and win a shooting war against China in China's turfs.
If the US can't win the Korean war when China was in its weakest times, forget about any war against China. War means hostility. Trade war, tech war, economic war, politic war, cultural war, cold war, or hot war,...etc., all are the result of hostility. Unfortunately, hostility can easily spread from one area to another. Eventually, armed confrontation will slip in as force is the ultimate answer to all disputes.
The US was lucky to walk away from its war debts after it lost the Koran war and Vietnam war. It did so by defaulting the dollar through abandoning gold standard in 1971, thus tearing up the Breton Forest Accord to pieces. It will not be so lucky for the Americans if the US loses another war to China in Asia. This time, the US will be dismembered by the gravity of its national debts and the squeezing force of dollar demise.