Why doesn’t China just announce a global trade summit, negotiate better trade deals with everyone else getting screwed on tariffs, and cut the US out of the loop?
Why doesn’t China just announce a global trade summit, negotiate better trade deals with everyone else getting screwed on tariffs, and cut the US out of the loop?
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Sounds MUCH easier said than done
Because without the US they have no one to steal IP from, create C rated versions of it, and prop up their theft economy. Also, nobody consumes like Americans do
Very few countries trust China for multiple reasons – Copyright theft, constant spying, cyber attacks, human rights violations, constant US pressure.
China has problems of their own to deal with and they’d be the last country people would listen to on a global trade summit. People deal with them out of necessity and not preference.
Because it’s in they favor they manipulate everything
China is a partner of necessity not of choice. Furthermore, China NEEDS to keep selling to the US. China needs to keep growing almost two figures in % year on year to keep its population busy and fed. Its whole economy is based on selling, without that factories become idle, people become idle and unsatisfied which leads to unrest which by definition is a threat to the established regime.
Because Anti-china is a thing. Especially thanks to years of American/western propaganda (“yellow peril”. Look it up).
Also, nobody currently believe China’s “No allies” policy. Again, thanks to America/Western propaganda, nobody believe China is not allied with Russia, who obviously is at war in which nobody likes.
Which essentially mean that no one really want to trade with China. At best, they might reluctantly do so. But given Canada is trying to take the rein here, I think most would rather flock to Canada’s lead instead.
The US is one of the biggest exporters of goods out of China. You remove the US from China completely and their economy is in ruins.
China must be doing this everyday without screaming every step of the move.
I think that’s their plan….
Because the US is roughly 1/4th the global economy. You can’t just ignore it entirely.
Also because all logistics are basically already set up to ship to the US from China. It’s not like they can flip a switch and suddenly send everything to Europe that easily without increasing costs and that’s assuming Europe or other countries could even fill the gap.
This is kind of poetic, back to back reddit posts
I think they are doing exactly that. Trump already gave china the keys to the asian markets in his last term. Might as well give china the whole shooting match.
Remember when we made fun of Russia because they were forced to drive their crappy cars because of protectionism? Doesn’t seem so funny now.
Maybe he’s just trying to harm everyone because he might be a Russian asset
they already have BRICS so … they are basically most of the way there on what you are asking.
China are almost as untrustworthy as the States
This relies on the idea that any enemy of your enemy is your friend although the idea of “friend” could be redefined to do what you suggest.
They will. It takes months to get the groundwork for that kind of thing laid, and shockingly nobody expected the US to start the self destruct sequence in less than 3 months.