- 30 May 2020 17:58
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The problem is that the US can't win this. We cannot defeat China on its home territory but we could interdict its trade and isolate it. But that is the rub. The rest of the world won't tolerate it. I don't think even our population would allow us to go very long without the tons of cheap consumer stuff we get from China. Certainly the EU wouldn't. And the US is deeply wounded in the economy. We do not have the money to coerce the EU and others into tolerating a cutoff from these goods.
Add to this the fact that not a single foreign leader trusts Trump to do what he says and I am afraid that the US will not be Hong Kong's savior.
I must say that there are actually people who see this as a hope spot because they run out of hope (of defeating CCP's tyranny) otherwise.
There are probably even more people thinking CCP, or even the Chinese people supporting CCP, deserve this.
Please stop saying it as if it is some kind of pure evilness.
The problem is that the US can't win this. We cannot defeat China on its home territory but we could interdict its trade and isolate it. But that is the rub. The rest of the world won't tolerate it. I don't think even our population would allow us to go very long without the tons of cheap consumer stuff we get from China. Certainly the EU wouldn't. And the US is deeply wounded in the economy. We do not have the money to coerce the EU and others into tolerating a cutoff from these goods.
Add to this the fact that not a single foreign leader trusts Trump to do what he says and I am afraid that the US will not be Hong Kong's savior.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
Voltaire
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.
Voltaire