{"id":33241,"date":"2018-04-09T05:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T10:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33241"},"modified":"2018-04-09T05:49:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T10:49:33","slug":"trumps-dangerous-game-of-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33241","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Dangerous Game of Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/04\/09\/trumps-dangerous-game-of-chicken\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Trump\u2019s Dangerous Game of Chicken<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"socialtwo\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style left-social\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"unset\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>As the \u201ctit-for-tat\u201d trade fight between the US and China escalates, Donald Trump is likely to find that he doesn\u2019t \u201cknow China\u201d the way he once thought. When he said that during the presidential campaign, he based his understanding of China on one thing: the high rent in Trump Tower that he had exacted from a Chinese bank. Today, he may still assume he can win a game of chicken by upping the ante until the Chinese eventually fold.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump and his crew don\u2019t understand Chinese thinking. The Chinese leadership does not respond well to being bullied, least of all now that they have a means of fighting back. China\u2019s commerce ministry said as much in a statement right out of Chairman Mao\u2019s playbook. Mao had often said when dealing with \u201cUS imperialism\u201d: \u201cWe will not attack unless we are attacked,\u201d Mao often said. \u201cBut if we are attacked, we will certainly counterattack.\u201d A ministry spokesman said today (April 6): \u201cThe Chinese way of doing things is like this: We do not pick a fight, but if someone does pick a fight, we will fight resolutely. The Chinese have always been very serious in handling these matters. We mean what we say.\u201d And the commerce ministry added in a formal statement: \u201cOn the issue of Sino-US trade, the Chinese position has been made very clear. We do not want to fight, but we are not afraid to fight a trade war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump and other US officials are saying the US isn\u2019t engaged in a trade war with China. But China\u2019s press is already using that term. Perhaps there won\u2019t be a trade war; Trump may simply be employing his usual bluster to force more favorable terms of trade. He risks stepping over the line, however.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s Dangerous Game of Chicken As the \u201ctit-for-tat\u201d trade fight between the US and China escalates, Donald Trump is likely to find that he doesn\u2019t \u201cknow China\u201d the way he once thought. When he said that during the presidential campaign, he based his understanding of China on one thing: the high rent in Trump Tower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[130,5493,7844,19076,805,19291,3222,827],"class_list":["post-33241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-mel-gurtov","tag-trade","tag-trade-tariffs","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33242,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33241\/revisions\/33242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}