Not so sure, Individual: tit-for-tat economic policy doesn't always work, especially when it can become (as in the case of the US and China) tit-for-tat-for-tit-for-tat policy. So where has that pointless economic war got anybody so far, really ?

What's Trump's next brilliant move ? Quantitative easing ? "Hey, I know - let's just print more money !" Genius. How's that working for Venezuela ?

Suppose China tried something surprising: say, a reduction in tariffs on all goods NOT from the US ? Especially, say, from the EU and Japan ? Or tax breaks for EU and Japanese firms to operate in China ? Is it possible that we would see US firms re-locating (maybe relocating back) to Europe and Japan ?

Just a thought.

Joe

Loudmouth,
Well, the Swamp is so big that Trump will need to play the show of appeasement for starters !
No-one knows how the swamp people will react because it has never been done before.
One thing's certain, they'll get super dirty from now on.

Hi Individual,

Do you really think that Trump isn't in the business of replacing 'their' Swamp with his own ?

Joe

Hands up! must admit, I tried to post a bitter rebuttal of some junk comment here
It mysteriously, disappeared,my stuff often does, before I post
Yet my feeling and thoughts are truly held
No taunting here, just my version of truth
Trump is an idiot, he may well be a puppet of some group who installed him
That group may well prosper because people have little faith in politics
A different deep state, a very real one, intent on another form of government
Fake news true fake news,producing that term, using real fake news to infer truth had no value
Stock market lives a yo yo life in fear of what the DILL will say next
I see my opponents words think I know, they in fact serve exactly the type they, better informed, would fear
I fear Donald Trump, almost as much as I fear the rights true deep state and false fake news factory

Well if nothing else the thread some of it contributors and contributions seem to prove my view Trump has fooled some
But just this morning he, yet again, changed his mind and says [any one think he means it?] China [short for American consumers] will pay that extra tariffs after all
Trump by his every action may bring world trade and financial markets crash any sing day tomorrow maybe

Trump's ultimate aim, which is his electoral platform, is to make America great and the way he intends to do it is by destroying Chinese competition in the global marketplace. The trade war between the US and China is his weapon of choice.