Been reading all kinds of garbage on the internet lately about China and the impending trade war. Take for example, this article -

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-on-a-much-bigger-mission-than-winning-the-trade-war-2018-8

Now if you read it you can tell that the author really has no idea what to think and appears to be scarred! Countless authors like the one above all do the same thing - which is to speculate on issues they know very little about. Thru their articles they try and instill a level of fear that undermines our very objective. Yet they will admit almost unanimously the dangerous path China is taking and their long held beliefs that the rules everyone else must follow do not apply to them.

Time and again we hear about American companies complaining about what this means for them, and how they want to tap the market in China. I say we screw all these companies and let them move to China! It ridiculous that they steal everything that gets made there, and any intellectual property that makes its way to China ends up for sale on the black market under-cutting the business who thinks they are saving big money on labor cost. These companies are really quite confused and conflicted, Apple and Tim Cook especially. I'd imagine it's the reason Tim Cook and President Trump keep having lunch - because Cook and Apple are in the crosshairs. This problem is a making of Apple, when they started moving production to China - so really I don't feel any company that elected to pick up and move to China should be getting any sympathy for what amounts to "crapping out" on their speculative and long distance business arrangements that have come home to roost.

But perhaps what China does not know is this, the Trade war is going to heat up exponentially once the tariffs start getting felt by the consumer. Already businesses that buy large amounts of steel and aluminum have noticed the pinch. But there will be a breaking point where American business will have no choice but to withdraw from China as their dealings with China will appear more and more treasonous as they make concessions for China that they never would for the Americans who built and allowed their companies to become giants. China is going to learn, just like Detroit - what a few years of inactivity can do to their manufacturing base... As people are laid off, equipment gets misplaced, machines get rusty and workforces start to feel the pinch so will China... America knows what it means to have a few years of down time and the results are devastating to industrial communities! 

Meanwhile, in America the opportunity to fill China's vacuum for what many would consider to be inexpensive and cheap products will result in more American made goods at prices that are even less than imported and heavily taxed Chinese goods that are historically known to be made as cheaply as possible to encourage the customer to re-purchase the item sometime later. This level of poor quality is expected with cheap dollar store items that are almost always disposable in nature. 

What I can't understand is why Trump is playing around... He has less than two years before the next election and this tit for tat tariff game is not impressing anyone. I think it's time he tells Tim Cook at lunch that this years iPhone may run into some issues and that if next years iPhone isn't 100% made in the USA, that it's possible Apple will find itself with no product to sell in the 2019 September cycle! I am sure Apple already has most if not all of it's phones secured for this years September roll out, but it's quite obvious that no efforts to put the clamps on China have really been cemented - thus he is just playing around and wasting time... At one time Americans refused to support China's one-way attitude and in return they sent us some of the cheapest $hit we have ever seen... Rubber dog $hit, matchbox cars, and fly swatters all of a sudden turned into toxic dog food and high tech electronics. Factories even started boating all of their equipment over there and laying off massive amounts of people who would no longer have a job - for better or worse. Yet these greedy companies can't get their thick heads around the fact that they will only do as well in China as China wants them to... Once competition in America is eliminated the prices rise and the venerable US company gets smacked down by the Chinese Government to make way for a Chinese company that is producing the exact same thing, using the exact same technology the American companies handed over to China for the privilege of access to their army of slave labor. Serves them all right if you ask me!

So it's entirely possible we will see some American businesses that are heavily invested in China that will be showing signs of stress soon, and in my opinion we should let them fail to set an example of what happens when you put all your manufacturing eggs in a communistic basket.