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2018-04-09 China-Japan-Koreas

China tiptoes toward massive retaliation in trade war

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Posted by 3dc 2018-04-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 or a fire-sale – of US Treasuries could devastate the global economy

So print up a plane load of $1 million dollars bills (w/ Trump's face on it) and buy those treasuries back at a steep discount. Let's see the Chinese try to spend those $1M bills.

Again, America should never have traded with the ChiComs.

Posted by Bob Hupealet4263 2018-04-09 00:27|| 2018-04-09 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 another chicom bluff, wolf has been called too many times me thinks

Posted by 746 2018-04-09 00:38|| 2018-04-09 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 War, trade or otherwise, is never pleasant. However, IMO, better to have this particular one now rather than down the road.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-09 03:36|| 2018-04-09 03:36|| Front Page Top

#4 However it may shake out, I see no downside in having less to do with these people.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-09 06:21|| 2018-04-09 06:21|| Front Page Top

#5 The Chinese government has never had to deal with the social unrest associated with a massive economic downturn. Could be interesting.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-09 08:06|| 2018-04-09 08:06|| Front Page Top

#6 America's economy is simply not exposed to the world in the way that China's is. They can't wreck us with tariffs. It just won't work.

If they dump their treasuries we can just print money to pay them. No problemo. China's got nothing.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-04-09 08:54|| 2018-04-09 08:54|| Front Page Top

#7 "One hopes the US farmers - most who haven't planted yet don't plant Soy Beans so China can experience food shortages again. More gasohol as nobody can eat it?"

Announced yesterday -- the largest sale ever of American soybeans to European customers.

Posted by Clurong Peacock9529 2018-04-09 09:36|| 2018-04-09 09:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Should the US actually engage many of the chinese expansionist practices (Central/South America) should wither.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-09 10:06|| 2018-04-09 10:06|| Front Page Top

#9 The US Should collect counterfit money we know's produced by places like China and then use that to buy back the Treasuries.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-09 12:10|| 2018-04-09 12:10|| Front Page Top

#10 So the Chinese have been buying treasuries as a favor to us? Who knew? Come to think of it, they can get a much higher yield on Venezuelan government bonds.

Posted by Matt 2018-04-09 14:06|| 2018-04-09 14:06|| Front Page Top

#11 And here I thought the Chinese dumped the Treasures a couple years back.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-09 18:07|| 2018-04-09 18:07|| Front Page Top

#12 The Chinese government has never had to deal with the social unrest associated with a massive economic downturn. Could be interesting.

Now they have a foreign enemy to blame. So I wouldn't be so confident that the ire will be directed at Xi.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2018-04-09 18:31|| 2018-04-09 18:31|| Front Page Top

#13 And here I thought the Chinese dumped the Treasures a couple years back.

They did sell some. And it did have an effect on interest rates. But not a big effect.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2018-04-09 18:33|| 2018-04-09 18:33|| Front Page Top

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