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Wrought

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The cocktail of fear and paranoia consuming the would-be policymakers in Washington seems exceedingly unlikely to produce a coherent national strategy, much less a competent one. Ironically, and despite the sensationalized rhetoric, it's not really about China at all.

But often in the arguments emanating from the other three camps, China seems less like an enemy than a rhetorical device. Some will hail Chinese statecraft as an example to emulate. Others will summon a Chinese boogeyman that must be defeated. But in many of these cases, the real problem identified is not China per se, but the economic order that enabled its rise. The real target is a free-market consensus that prioritizes free trade and capital mobility over national resilience. Were the Chinese Communist Party to collapse tomorrow, the essential policies each group advocates would not change.

That China is such a powerful rhetorical weapon is revealing in its own way. Much like the geopolitical debate’s preoccupation with realpolitik, the economic debate’s insistence on foregrounding competition with China says something important about the anxieties of those in Trump’s orbit, as well as the arguments deemed most convincing to Trump himself.

Rather, it's about themselves, and what to make of the brave new world they live in.

At the heart of these disputes lies a fundamental question: What is America capable of? Can it still do great things? For the last four years, Trumpists have answered “no.” They have cast the federal government as a bloated machine run by inept bureaucrats whose culture has been hijacked by “wokeism” and whose institutions have been weaponized against them. Trump has vowed to change all of that.

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JJD1803

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DOGE is a joke if they truly wanted to get rid of waste why haven’t they done anything to the DoD. The defense department has failed 6 straight audits. They just want to purge the bureaucracy and remove regulations so they can increase profit. I don’t see how purging the HHS,CDC,NIH and FDA helps make America stronger against China.
 

solarz

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Well, Japan's colonisation of Taiwan was different compared to its other countries in asia they invaded later . Taiwan is regarded by Japan as a "model colony" and they used it as an experimental case for their model colonisation policy which they just newley embarked on.
So its normal that Taiwan is often perceived as having been treated better than others colonies who came later after Japan was embroiled in war in Asia .
In Taïwan Japan focused on infrastructure, agriculture, and industry, while also implementing cultural Japanization. Its also why Taiwanese developed a favourbale impression of Japan, especially when many compared how their lives improved compared to how they were under the Qing government. So its also normal taiwan impression of Japan differed alot to those in other japanese colonies or countries in asia who came under ajapn at some point.
So using some peoples logic on here, we can also justify Japan's colonisation of Taiwan just like russia did to her neighbours and we can also go as far as even chastising those neighbours for not having a favourable view of Russia and Japan who colonised them and brought them development. Lol

Try telling that to an indigenous Taiwanese.
 

FriedButter

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Effective tariffs on China is 54% now. I wonder if Fed will cut rates in June...

Feds are stuck between 2 boulders. Inflation is going to roar back but the economy is about to tank. Chances are they will maintain rates out of fears of stagflation.

A flat 10% on all US imports, with higher rates on the largest exporters. Hard to envision this sticking, to be honest; the economic pain will be immediate and extreme. Inflationary is a huge understatement.

The real fun begins when the mid terms come.
 
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