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United States Place’s 100% Tariffs On China
I may not be the only person thinking or feeling this.
The 2020s are beginning to feel much more like the 1930s, and the run-up to World War Two from 1939 to 1945.
The 2020s saw declining international cooperation and wars in Europe and the Middle East.
It is indisputable that the world is becoming much more dangerous due to the United States’ actions.
The US enabled the rise of China, and it was the US that architected the current circumstances.
I’m not saying the US is irresponsible for other nations’ actions.
Merely the US enabled those actions, rapidly potentially escalating humanity to future bloody conflicts over power and influence in the Pacific between the two titans of China versus America.
The United States is directly responsible for creating its most prominent rival and geopolitical competitor, China.
When a new power rises, and an established power fades, those two powers will inevitably clash because that has been the historical norm.
In the 20th century, clashes occurred between the declining power of the British Empire and the rising power of Germany.
