>>41250
>I thought Trumptoids wanted to Make America Great Again?
>Not plunge us into a multi-decade economic dark age
Why are you acting like it's a zero-sum situation, and that those are the "only" two possibilities?
>>41261
>a very capable manufacturing rival like China
West Taiwan produces more shit than they're capable of selling, their entire economy is on the brink of collapse, their own citizens are
LITERALLY lying flat with the expressed desire of becoming a vegetable, and their entire history is one incident after another of them
ALWAYS losing every single war they have ever participated in.
>the power is not in the money itself, is the control on trading stuff
Which is why the entire shipping industry across the globe is either panic buying or currently on hold and waiting to see the outcome of Trump's negotiations instead of ignoring them altogether is bypassing the U.S. for "other markets" that exist in Europe, South American, Africa, Asia, and non-U.S. North America.
>XIX century China did not have a capable army to defend themselves from corporate thiefs
Wasn't it it the Qianlong Emperor that said, and I quote:
<Our Celestial Empire possesses all things in prolific abundance and lacks no product within its borders. There is therefore no need to import the manufactures of outside barbarians in exchange for our own produce.
So how did they lose, not one but,
TWO WARS against the fucking Bongs?
>China was demolished by UK and their allies during opium wars
Which, by the way, was
started by the Chinese raiding ships and seizing cargo on the excuse that it was to "prevent" the trade of opium (
But really to steal stuff without having to pay for it), but all the while ignoring that Chinese elites had been smoking that shit for centuries (Even during their "ban"), and that the actual peace treaties and agreements of the now so-called "Opium Wars" only ever mentioned opium
ONCE' in demanding a reparation of "six million dollars".
And all this was topped by another bout of Chinese stupidity half a century later with the Boxer Rebellion. Where the Chinese decided that the "best" way to expel all the foreigners was to kill their own people and destroy thousands of years of Chinese history.