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January 20, 2019
Ah...A Bit Of Sanity To Help Put Out The Hair Fires: China Is Losing The Trade War
Japan Inc. of the 1980s was an unstoppable economic powerhouse that was going to buy up every bit of American real estate, sell us all of our cars and electronics, and then finally win the war they started in December 1941.
It didn't work out quite the way it was presented to us by an hysterical media, and today Japan is in social and demographic trouble beyond the worst projections for America.
So here is a breath of fresh air about the impending doom barrelling toward us in the shape of the Chinese Dragon.
China Is Losing The Trade War In Nearly Every Way
China is still the world's No. 2 economy and is still the monster of emerging markets, but regardless of those bonafides, Xi Jinping's country is losing the trade war in nearly every way imaginable.
As the article points out, China plays the long game, but at least for the time being, America has some qualitative advantages that are going to be hard to beat. And China has demographic issues of its own that are significant, chief among them a declining birth rate and a lopsided male:female ratio. I guess that whole "One Child" plan had some unintended consequences!
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