I talked about This earlier, I don’t remember any replies.....
This is the real threat to a different world changing.
Their mono race society will not bend to social whims of other nations.
Their historical root is mere survival, individually, first and foremost.

As Americans and most of our allies, we have not tasted of that motivation from our lap of capitalism luxury.
Once Asia wrestles the economic center of activity away from the west, it might never return again.
It will make the homeless problem seem like a over booked campground, not the hand wringing and enabling we currently view it.

Anyway, I am not alone in this assessment, here is a snippet from a interview of Harry Kissinger:

The alternative, Kissinger adds, is not appealing. A divided Atlantic would turn Europe into “an appendage of Eurasia”, which would be at the mercy of a China that wants to restore its historic role as the Middle Kingdom and be “the principal adviser to all humanity”. It sounds as though Kissinger believes China is on track to achieve its goal.

It won’t let me link the article from Financial Times...
If interested, a story is viewable via Real Clear Politics today.
Read it for a different perspective from a man who is almost 100
Years old and historically seen and studied much.
Or just stay with titilation....
Just get to the campground early.

"Economy experts have predicted for a long time that the Chinese/Asian economy will walk all over that of us in the West and make us comparatively poor. "


 Exactly.  This has been coming for decades, there's no reason to expect it to stop based off of the current consumer trends.  I don't recall any future trade modules that have ever said China would not expand dramatically, not that I've seen them all.

 Its cheaper to send a container by ship from Boston to San Diego than it is to truck it to New York.  China geographically has an advantage let alone its economic structuring and trade.

Good read......
Knowing now how Trump has used trade as a issue, it seems to parallel the information in that article.

Read what Kissinger said re: Asia.
America will awaken after its too late.

Asia is hungry, the people, they will work 24/7 and be happy for the opportunity, chance.

Is it capitalism coming back to bite the USA because we lost our focus on what work ethics were all about?

Your English appears better than mine 😋

You bring up some interesting points.
Schools use to teach the fundamentals, the 3R’s and you passed or were held back, or sent to a school that catered more toward students with issues.
Also, the man was expected to be the bread winner, while the wife ran the household, which seemed in the larger picture to stabilize the community.
Feminism and greed appears to have come at the cost of societal stability,
with economics being a tool to wield as power....

Oh indeed, a byproduct of capitalism is greed.

I have used the example before.
My first home I ever bought in Southern California was for 40 thousand dollars.
That was a big commitment for me.
It is now around a million dollars, for that 1 bath, 2 bedroom, 900 square feet home.
I didn’t sell it for that, but I sold it at a great profit way back, and used the proceeds to climb the real estate ladder.

I always felt like I was taking advantage of a “system”
That wasn’t fair and just, in the sense that societial peace, harmony, can only come from stable neighborhoods.
Folks need a stake in the “common-welfare” of where they live....
It is like a extended family.
When prices restrict young families from “putting down roots” in the name of “profit” we lose something way more valuable.

I cast no stones, as my house is of glass, but I would greatly welcome a restriction on the profit folks can get on the sale of homes.

I am not sure how we get back there, maybe that is what Trump means by making America great again........
Except it needs to be available to all comers, not just the dominant races of the past....
Parts of the past was great, for many, not so much, for others, but that does not mean we can’t make it great for all.
Just takes a little less of self and a little more of others, first...

Mark, capitalism most definitely offers a person born into poverty the best chance to rise out of it.
Look at the competing world today, so many folks are still held in place by a caste system, but through economic opportunities more are rising out of it than ever before.

Longevity is adding a great cost to our society, as it will to the world population, as standard of living rises with economic opportunities.
We might find abortion troubling, wait until you see forced death in countries that do not want to waste resources on the old and maim, so other healthy can access and utilize the resources more productively.

Price control is a difficult subject to broach, it really is a double-edge sword
But a free market, is not a fair market, when the wealthy control so much of the freedom.
Look at Trump and tariffs.
Look at the USA as your family, and other countries as vendors.
You want to buy/trade for a product at the same rate your neighbor does, not more.
If the local market charged him a dollar for a loaf of bread, but wanted to charge you two dollars, you would not shop there.
Nor would you work a job/trade at a lessor rate/exchange, than what they offer your neighbor for the same product or job.
That might be considered unfair job/trade practice.
Wasn’t the “unfairness” in the labor market that gave rise to unions?
It seems we need to strike a balance, and that appears a little harder to agree upon.

Trump's tariff approach is in response to tariff's imposed on the US, not brand new ones out of the blue.

I am aware of that, that is why I posted as such, but it is being portrayed as a bad thing, mostly.

question: Does BMW need the US market to sell cars in more or less than Ford needs the German market? does China need the US market more or less than the US needs the Chinese market?

That has always been the riddle to marketing.
Is more always better, or selected markets and sells.

I do not believe its a simple answer, mostly because the market is fluid....
Lots of variables involved.
However, you still see ads for the Clapper and Pet Rocks  

No, you're both missing the point. It has nothing to do with marketing.

I do not belief the tariffs (if they all actually end up being imposed) will have much effect on the big picture.

The reality is BMW needs the US market for it's cars and motorcycles far more than Ford needs the German market. So if Trump puts a tariff on BMW's (I'm using this only as an example) in retaliation for Germany's tariff's on Fords, then the price of a BMW may increase to a point that sales suffer.... bigly. At that point, both BMW and Germany have a decision.

BMW could decide to exit the US market or just accept lower sales. Or they could decide to build a production facility in the US to avoid the tariff. Germany may do the math and decide the revenue they get from a tariff on Ford cars does not offset their loss of tax revenues from BMW's lower sales.

Now, I don't have the data, but I'm betting BMW needs the US market far more than Ford needs the German market.

Of course the growing middle class of India and even China throws more variables into the equation.