US-China Trade War

The cluster discusses the US-China trade war, including tariffs, protectionism, market access barriers, intellectual property issues, and arguments for reciprocal trade policies or decoupling.

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Sample Comments

swagasaurus-rex Oct 16, 2022 View on HN

China does exactly this - restrict business and trade with USA. It’s time USA does the same

theandrewbailey Mar 11, 2020 View on HN

China is a major exporter to a lot of countries, so the same sentiment applies to them, too. More like, make the world great again.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

DeonPenny May 24, 2019 View on HN

Cause china is an authoritian government that hasn't been too nice to america business in recent years. Why would anyone stand up for them now that the illusion of market openness goes away? Google not even allowed in china so why fight on china behave very hard.

zip1234 Nov 20, 2018 View on HN

My understanding is that the desired outcome is for China to get rid of tariffs and other policies that prop up their local industries at the expense of other countries. The problem before was that China had policies and tariffs that were one-sided and nobody could do anything about it. The US is big enough to do something about it.

blibble Jan 29, 2022 View on HN

the world consists of more than the United StatesI very much doubt the Chinese would deliberately cripple their industry in a similar way

chaostheory Dec 14, 2022 View on HN

This is a trade dispute. The US no longer feels that China will ever open their domestic market to outside competition, so why should we keep our domestic market open to Chinese companies?

powerapple May 19, 2020 View on HN

Google left China. Uber sold their share of market to Didi. US has blocked many deals when Chinese companies are involved. There is never free global trade, it is just exploitation at different scales. Global trade happens because some countries need dollars to buy weapon, oil and technology. You buy $1.99 USB cable from China, and the profit from 100 million cables will be used to buy intel chips and Boeing airplanes. It is the same that the profit of 100 kilos of coffee beans from Africa count

kwere Feb 26, 2021 View on HN

china biggest trade partner is europe and they are grooming Africa and other countries, so they with almost a modern economy will care little of sanctions. Maybe Us will get the kickback having to deal (aka subsidie)with unhappy lobbies

sergiotapia Feb 12, 2025 View on HN

has to be both ways for that to work. china can't just do whatever and tariff american companies to hell, right?

oceanplexian May 9, 2024 View on HN

We are currently in a trade war with China, they are enabling Russia to bypass sanctions, and they are a threat to allies in the region (e.g Taiwan). They are also known for devaluing their currency to harm trade partners and for stealing intellectual property. It may not be a shooting war but we are absolutely in an economic war.This is one of the few issues with widespread bipartisan consensus (Biden has chosen to keep the China Tariffs that Trump enacted). And yes, China would be glad to t