NathanLoiselle wrote:Well, don't plan on buying headphones soon.
I was joking with a friend the other day about how it would be hilarious if China slapped an export tariff on consumer electronics.
The $50 beellion in proposed tariffs on the US side work hard to avoid impacting consumers, at least directly (say, an import tariff on i-gadgets, etc.). The proposed tariffs which China clapped-back with - within eleven hours, because somebody did their homework ahead of time - are targeted at swing states and Trump strongholds. That's because Trump, ostensibly of the GOP, needs to not lose the house in the mid-terms, or at least not do much more to lose the house in the mid-terms. Closer to Trump's thinking, he doesn't want the price of Chinese-made stuff to increase in the rust belt as he heads into 2020.
Eh, in the end, it's all theoretical. China doesn't have to worry about the short-to-mid term popular vote. While an economist might view China as the one with more to lose, common sense says they can hunker-down and take their lumps, kinda like Russia. After the dust settles, the same folks who run the show in China today will still be there. Not so much on the American side...
So far, it's a game of
chicken.
A quantum state of signature may or may not be here... you just ruined it.