Wall Street Journal Burns 'Master Negotiator' Donald Trump for Starting Trade War: 'This Isn't...

The problem I have with the Wall Street Editorial is China does not make anything for the United States that is unique to China. Almost 100% of what China exports to the United States are cheap knock-off copies of products made elsewhere in the world. Other than higher prices in the United States, really I do not see how a full blown trade war with China is going to impact anything. This all reflects badly on China's past attempts to steal it's way to Superpower status by stealing other countries products and making them cheaper as their own. Noway will China ever reach the United States or even surpass it that way. We can see this by the ever extending goal of when China will surpass the United States Economy in size. The first goal year was 2020, then 2030 and now it is 2050. The Chinese are not this stupid or retarded, they know they have an issue with innovation in their country, they know they have an issue with lack of patents, they know they cannot steal their way to the top. However the Chinese also know if they ever want to fix the issue of innovation and patents they have to change or remove the Communist Party that is causing the issue. Will they ever take that last step? That is the real question here beyond the trade war. If they had taken the step prior to now, we would not be engaged in a trade war as China would be making unique products made nowhere else in the world.

BTW, the problem with the 2050 goal year of China surpassing the United States is their population will be well into decline by then due to their earlier one child policy. It's an issue they never have even addressed yet. How will China deal with massive population decline when its immigration policies are ethno-centric? Not enough Han Chinese in this world I am afraid. How will China adapt internally to the notion that rulers of China might not always be Han Chinese or will they ever adapt? Another question that will need to be answered way prior to 2050.

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China made their bed with poor patent protection for foreign designed products. The requirement that a US (or other manufacturer ) give up their intellectual property in exchange for access to cheap Chinese labor is absurd. The World Trade Organization handles on average 3 trade disputes per year to full resolution. China has been repeatedly identified as a bad actor but yet they continue on. The WTO has no "teeth". Just another useless international organization. My biggest concern is that international tension escalates to a shooting war. It's obvious that North Korea is being leveraged by China against the US. Tariffs from the US against China? We will pull Kim Jung Un's string and embarrass Donald Trump...They play the game well. The US never has....