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nipponese04/03/20252 repliesview on HN

I think the long game answer is clear: Trump wants an old fashioned World War with China before 2027 and needs production back in the States.


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mountainriver04/03/2025

Yes, this is the puzzle piece many are missing.

They see a way with china by the end of the decade so they are trying to remove dependence on their manufacturing and flip Russia to our side.

Except there isn’t any guarantee of a war with china, it’s just an idea they have. For all we can tell they have no intention of that. Taiwan is tricky though

alkonaut04/03/2025

Whether one umbrella factory moves from China to the US within this election cycle doesn't really make a dent. The moving of industry from the US happened over decades, and was hand-in-hand with the US making fewer umbrellas and more computer programs, satellites, and microchips. Moving basic manufacturing of low value goods to the US would cannibalize the capacity of producing higher value goods. And none of it will be noticeable while Trump is still alive.

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