What’s the over/ under on nothing happening?
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But, but ... muh iPhone. Muh 75" TV. Muh Happy Meal toys.
We can't punish China. How would we live without all our cheap plastic trinkets? HOW!? 🙄
Unironically this is probably pretty close to the actual rationale.
For which we can thank the traitorous democrats for normalizing trade with them in the nineties.
"When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you."
One of their generals wrote in one of the CCP's strategy papers that the more they allowed the West to exploit their cheap labor, and thereby become dependent on Chinese labor, the more they could get away with subverting us. Eventually, they estimated, we wouldn't be able to stop them without hurting ourselves. America has given up so many industries to China, for so long, that we don't have any or enough trained people to resume those industries without considerable time and expense.
Women drive something like 85% of consumer spending, btw.