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bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 12:46 PM Jan 2018

China Has Plenty of Options to Retaliate Against U.S. Tariffs

Bloomberg News
January 23, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump may soon get a lesson about tangling with China on trade: Beijing can punch back.China has a long history of tit-for-tat retaliation when it comes to trade disputes and may well dust off the same policy playbook in the wake of the Trump administration’s decision to slap tariffs on solar panels and washing machines.

Chinese think-tanks are likely scrambling to identify the industries in the President’s support base that will lose out the most should it come down to a bare-knuckle fight," says Pauline Loong, managing director at research firm Asia-Analytica in Hong Kong.Boeing, the largest U.S. exporter, has long been a key bellwether for trade relations. Xi gave Boeing a $38 billion order on a 2015 plant visit in Seattle.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-23/china-has-targets-aplenty-to-retaliate-against-u-s-trade-action

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China Has Plenty of Options to Retaliate Against U.S. Tariffs (Original Post) bronxiteforever Jan 2018 OP
Trade war! Dawson Leery Jan 2018 #1
China should pull back all the Trump business intheozone Jan 2018 #2
you're probably correct NewJeffCT Jan 2018 #3
The important thing is to destroy Green Energy maxsolomon Jan 2018 #4

intheozone

(1,103 posts)
2. China should pull back all the Trump business
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:01 PM
Jan 2018

licenses granted and kick all the Trump businesses out of China. Those acts are probably the only ones that would get any real attention from Trump.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
3. you're probably correct
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:07 PM
Jan 2018

just revoke all the licenses on any business that makes stuff for Trump brands

I think they had said a while back that if Trump did declare China a currency manipulator on Day 1 that they would look at retaliating against Trump by hit red states the hardest.

maxsolomon

(33,470 posts)
4. The important thing is to destroy Green Energy
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 02:10 PM
Jan 2018

Anything else is a side benefit. Trump will welcome a trade war. It will give him a fresh target for tweets to his Nativist base.

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