fisher posted:I would not call China a Competitor at all. Make no mistake, they are our Adversary ESPECIALLY in the tech space. Being a competitor implies a healthy competitive environment. An adversarial relationship is one where the other side thinks nothing of stealing patents or knocking off innovative products basically using slave labor. The tariffs are deserved and then some.
You are forgetting that President Trump started the Trade War and has being trying to paint the Chinese as adversaries so as to gain a negotiating advantage.
The Chinese see themselves as victims of bullying by the USA.
Regardless of how you look at it, the American consumers pays the tariff taxes not the Chinese.
Certainly by all accounts China has been actively stealing patents and producing knock offs of innovative products created in Western democracies. Some price should be paid for this intellectual property and new protections to prevent this from happening in the future needs to be created.
It would be a mistake to judge the Chinese solely based on a Western value system and moralities. The Chinese have a different value system and moralities.
This Trade War truly sets up a clash of cultures that likely never can be resolved to either parties total satisfaction.
Both countries are the world's largest trading partners and will continue to need each other for a long time to come.