Quote (duffman316 @ Jul 22 2024 09:02pm)
the furture prospects of the usa is better when it doesn't pursue isolationaist policies, effectively enabling china to fill in the void during trumps tenure
cept of course with russia for some reason where trump in a second term would most likely push for legitamizing the russian invasion of a sovereign nation
There's a difference between isolationism and pushing back against China. Fundamentally Joe Biden and Donald Trump represented the difference between economic theorists like Paul Krugman and Peter Navarro. The neoliberal theorists believe all trade is a positive sum game, totally unrestricted and unprotected. The mercantilists believe trade can be either a net positive or negative, can be commensalist or parasitic or mutually beneficial depending on the arrangement and its requires protectionism to seek one nation's gain. That's still a far cry from believing in total isolation. But the former type of economist wants to throw the latter type of economist in prison so his dirty dissident thoughts can't threaten the communist supremacy
besides its all silly because even joe biden for all his faults recognized that navarro was right and engaged in the same type of protectionist measures as trump did. He put up tariffs and sanctions and border shutdowns all the same. The biggest difference is that Biden was asleep at the wheel when it came to China wrapping its tendrils around unaligned countries and seeking the gobble up natural resources with its silk road initiative- even alienating countries who had reason to oppose china- while Trump was actively engaged in building diplomatic factions for longer term economic relationships. Trump got the KSA and Israel to do massive joint investment, Biden got them to the precipice of trading oil for RMB