Knife’s Edge: China Plans Serious Hong Kong Escalation As Trump Accuses Xi Of Letting ‘Plague’ Spread
Tentative signs that the European economy may have hit bottom in April were largely overshadowed on Thursday by concerns around the state of US-China relations after Donald Trump implicated Xi in a series of irritated tweets.
"Spokesman speaks stupidly on behalf of China, trying desperately to deflect the pain and carnage that their country spread throughout the world", Trump seethed. "Its disinformation and propaganda attack on the United States and Europe is a disgrace", he went on to say. "I
The only thing that would have made the Trump administration pause ratcheting up its anti-China rhetoric is a market selloff. That has not happened. In addition, the move to turn the screws on the PRC appears to have bipartisan support in Congress. Escalation and significant political and economic fallout may become inexorable in the coming days and weeks.
As a side note, I find the level of racism in American society deeply troubling.
Me too. In just a year or two we are back in the 1930s. This will not end well. Trump opened Pandora’s box and everything evil got loose.
Yep, our wonderful Commander In Chief made it cool to be a loud-mouthed, small-minded, ignorant bigot.
It’s like having Archie Bunker as president. Unreal.
Archie had a better vocabulary.
I’m with you, Tom.
US China relations have essentially boiled down to name calling over Twitter, a pinnacle of diplomacy…
labeling Trump’s veiled racist remarks as “name calling”
Is like labeling terrorists as “protestors”
Look where “name calling” for many years in Germany brought the world to in 1930s ?
If we call a spade a spade now, and denounce and condemn such hateful divisive racist behavior, perhaps we have a good chance of nipping things early in the bud, and save ourselves
What legacy do u wish to leave for the children of tomorrow and the many generations after ?
To brush off racist remarks as “name calling” ?
Wisconsin
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Florida
North Carolina
Arizona
Given Trump can no long rely on a strong economy to win the next election, here’s the only key question: In these states above, will China-bashing turn-on or turn-off the Trump base vote on 11/3/2020? Until then, the stock market will be collateral damage that Trump/the Republicans will worry about after the election.
It seems to me he has dug a hole from which there is no escape. Like the knitters watching heads roll in the French revolution, ever more atrocities are required to keep his base even keel. These atrocities in the form of dis-basement of the USA are damaging to us all. If it looks like Biden wins stocks go up. If it looks like the Devil wins stocks go down. However his fate is tied to the stock market so either way he loses. Only question is what additional damage will he do in the interim. This slowly turning up the heat on China will have not impact on their behavior so we can be assured this either ends in a massive escalation or capitulation. We can hope the latter. An appreciation of history described by way of Ray Dalio’s recent post could however possibly cause a person to be concerned about spilling over into the military realm.
It would seem as if China has decided they want Trump re-elected as escalation of China-US tensions is a huge boost to Trump considering distrust of China is the one thing all Americans, left or right, seem unified about. Biden by contrast is compromised on this issue.