The announcements of tariffs on goods from China is met with hysteria in the markets, and escalation from China against The US. If this didn't have such potential huge impact on life of the average person, i would suggest to watch the fireworks from a far off hill.
The problem is this will probably be touted as the biggest problem, the turning point, of the depression we are about to head into. And, only after time has gone by, and many people have written tell-all books, will we have any idea of what really went down.
So, what is really going down?
Does Trump play 5D chess?
Are Xi and Trump in cahoots? Or bitter rivals?
Are the Chinese good guys or bad guys? Or are we all watching some kind of big play/movie?
Well, i hope to offer some insights. But, i know that i am going to fall short. Hindsight is 20/20 y'all
China has been playing us dirty
China has been doing underhanded things to drive competition out of the world. Things that they agreed they would not do. However, China doesn't care. They are in it to bring all the others to their knees. They are practising the Laws of Power, while pretending to be good trading partners.
The CCP has a plan to bring America to its knees, and then ride in and save US, and thus take over bloodlessly.
The problem is, China relies on America for a great deal of its food. Also, a great deal of the raw materials it uses to make the things it sells cheaply. China is soooo fubar if it stops trading with The US.
Of course, America has given up most of its manufacturing, and China could shut down Wallymart at the snap of a finger. If we cut ties with China, it would take years of doing without microwaves and TVs, and assorted cheap junk, perhaps decades. And worse, most of our pharmaceutical chemicals come from China. We would have to do without so much of our prescription drugs.
And China has not been doing things will-nilly. They have been taking over entire industries. So, there is no competition left. They targeted the industry, they undercut its market. They bought up the suppliers. They stole the tech. They hired the talent and moved them overseas. Until there is nothing left of the industry in America.
If we never dealt with China anymore, it would be a good thing. However, that comes with a huge problem of having to start back from scratch. At least a decade of doing without.
Why tariffs?
I would really like to believe that Trump, or whoever is working him has really thought this out. Because there is a million ways this can go wrong… or boom.
The problem is China doesn't like to lose. They especially do not like to look bad. VERY IMPORTANT to save face.
China is trying to sell out of The US debt (bonds). And this is not what they agreed to when they got trading status. People like to talk about all the other countries trying to drop the dollar, but there is no real competition. And there is nothing stronger than the dollar. (best in the race of losing) So, their selling bonds is to destabilize The US. No matter how much they would want to say it is for BRICS.
It looks like Trump is trying to renegotiate trade deals with everyone, and "tariffs" are a way that can be done. For ever, America has taken the short end of the stick. We have such bad trade imbalances, and such bad tariff imbalances, that is fascinating that we, The US, hasn't done anything about it until now.
What is Trump's plans with tariffs?
If Trump is playing 5D chess, than the tariffs are to unsettle all of our trading partners. And then to negotiate new terms, and that includes the Bretton Woods Agreement, where we said The US would patrol the sea lanes, and everyone would accept dollars.
Now, everyone acts like there are no pirates, and they can just take more and more from America (like NATO funding)
The petrodollar has also run its course, and needs to be renegotiated.
So, we need to set the stage for future negotiations.
We need to discuss who is going to make safe the sea lanes. We need to discuss how international trade will be arranged and paid for. We need to discuss if we are going to move to a multi-polar world, how are we going to keep things fair?
Basically, Trump has opened up these negotiations.
Back to the constitution
There is one thing that keeps tickling the back of my mind about tariffs. Tariffs are the only constitutional way for the USA to make money.
The income tax was passed in the middle of Christmas break, while the President's family was threatened to pass this, or else. The Amendment was never properly ratified. Basically, it should not exist, and does not exist.
The Infernal Revolting Syndicate is a corporation out of the Bahamas. (If it was a The US agency, why would this be?) And this agency has national police powers. Their own courts. And can destroy someone's life on mere hearsay. They are the writers of the codes, and the enforcers of the codes. They should not exist.
So, if we were going back to the constitutional republic, the United States of America, instead of the corporation, The US, then we would have to get rid of the income tax, and start only using tariffs.
I expect to see a new dollar. Probably created by the treasury (and not the Fed) and probably backed by gold, because no one is going to believe in fiat.
I expect to see a new SWIFT system. I am unsure if it will be BRICS or XRP (ripple)
I expect to see a lot of debt defaulted upon. (or maybe it will just be paid in old dollars, which no one wants anyway.)
I am sure that America will start manufacturing again. But, i am unsure if it will be the globalists making fully automated manufacturing plants in Silicon Valley 2.0 or if it will be a bunch of entrepreneurs seeing an opportunity with tariffs and shipping disruption working in their favor.
And the really weird one, is China might go away. The Three Gorges Damn bursts, wiping out the middle of China, and then the army is busy trying to fix that, while thousands of protests are no longer stopped by the army, and China breaks into a dozen pieces, and manufacturing is no longer integrated. China basically is unable to keep up with what they used to be doing.