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Garry Perkins's avatar

I agree that most of Trump tariffs are deeply misguided, especially those on our neighbors and allies. That said, we do need to decouple from the Chinese economy now that Xi had gone full-dictator and is committed to both expanding China's borders and re-drawing global rules to favor oppressive dictatorships. What else can we do to decouple before the People's Republic decides that Bhutan has always been part of China, like Taiwan, and Mongolia, and next will be the Korean peninsula, and we know such regimes never stop until someone stops them.

So what are better tools than tariffs?

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D Chege's avatar

Tariffs, like sanctions, are economic means to political ends. A (trade) war is simply politics by other means. This is probably especially true of the ones directed towards our neighbors on the North American continent.

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