I’ll clarify my frame of reference for my statements. “Taking the high road” is a phrase that refers only to the attempt at international negotiation and strategy by one nation. The US unfortunately has shown the world for quite a while on the historical timeline, that the US has stopped from even attempting to take the high road on any level, especially in the present strategy that the present political administration is utilizing publicly.



The US is diverting attention from the real issues, and is especially attempting to play a “blame game” by blaming China (at this moment, however, at any other moment the blame could and I allege, not only could, but would be directed at any other numerous “other” nations, as it most recently has) for trade imbalance that really is not caused by China. The basic fact of trade imbalance lies in the fact of the US dollar being the world’s reserve currency.



Yes, there are issues on both sides as to corruption, and manipulation of currencies especially, and licensing rights, theft, etc. etc. The real issue is that the US is attempting to corrupt even any kind of reasonable international political discussion, and to maintain a platform of relevancy “on topic” to allow any international negotiations that could ever benefit the majority of the US population. China is no angel, no state/nation is. Every nation has to protect internal trade to be advantageous for business within its geographical boundaries, or the nation will have a devolving economy that ultimately benefits no one within the boundaries of the nation/state.



China is not getting sucked into the below-the-belt- type of scenario- thus the “high road” vs the “low road”. The present US political administration is playing one of the lowest of the low road type of political strategies imaginable. The Democrats and the Republicans are just as guilty. This issue- which is pursuing policies that do NOT effectively support the majority of the governed population, which is their responsibility, as elected administers to accomplish( which means a total dereliction of fiduciary and reasonable responsible action for the majority of the citizens of the nation) is an apolitical, or joint political effort by both predominant and significant political parties, and has been the most significant issue affecting all citizens of the US for over a 50 year period.



The fact is the US is NOT, and has not been pursuing any type of policies that exhibit any level of balance to allow for distribution of wealth in any level of reasonable flow of revenues to balance the economy, and allow for any gain of wealth for the 99% of the working population.



The issue of “balance” and “balanced” view to put it politely is really a very critical issue that the US political administrations have failed exponentially to even establish any credibility on the bottom-line of “attempting” to establish any balance to allow reasonable economic survival for the majority of citizens within the economy. What the political administrations have extremely successfully accomplished is diverting the national revenues rather than to the majority, but to the minority, essentially less than 5% of the population.



The US corporations and US political administrations have established legislation that has effectively shattered every level of profitable entrepreneurship for the majority of citizens, demolished revenue streams for taxes at the local community and state levels, and have supported consolidation of a few major corporations into even fewer monopolies controlled by only a minimum of not only US citizens, but international citizens of other nations. The US working/employed population has become increasingly powerless over the last 50 years to essentially change this trend through the only route available, which is the voting process.



I really recommend that you view this video,

http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-coming-war-on-china-english-subtitles-

to see a bit of a different perspective, as to how other nations, especially in the Asian continental realms of the planet earth, may view the US. It may open some people’s eyes, that really need to be opened to even be able to see any kind of “balanced view”, as to what is occurring in the US, especially. Even you may begin to see who’s really playing a blind-man’s bluff game.



The US has been slamming every one of its political allies worldwide. The US political administration is presently utilizing an extremely bad, and destructive strategy that is only a “biting-it’s-own-AXX-game”. The present figurehead of the US political administration behaves more like an out-of-control Chucky monster spinning around, like a top throwing daggers at every other nation of the planet. It’s been doing that for quite a while now. The daggers have devolved into primarily distractive BS, with no validity of content and relevance. The US is effectively bleeding garbage, from its mouth, at this point.



Slogans cannot conceal the real subversive moves of the US. MAGA is not the slogan that even begins to establish any message to create any relevant perspective to develop any kind of balanced view for any member of the US population. Empty words cannot conceal the empty message at the heart of the slogan. Empty words cannot conceal the empty message from the spokesman/thing or people uttering the words.



The supreme irony is the fact that the present political administration is quite aware of this fact: The MAGA is a slogan that is being used to further play on cognitive biases, and create further dissension amongst the critical populations in the few states, counties, and precincts that are the only ones of significance, that sway the eventual electoral college vote. This administration is effectively no worse than any of the prior administrations for quite awhile. The goal is to maintain, and sustain the present flow of monies to a specific sector of the US population.



The “word game over trade/tarriff” is only a game that most critically can very well become the more-than-initial platform to position the US into battle-for-profit, at the total risk of not only the US populations. The tariffs are essentially VAT taxes on the majority of the US population that is also facing higher taxes due to double-taxation in 2019. The tariffs will hurt the US businesses and US population more than China. It was not China’s move to start this game.



The US has been and is continuing to make the critical moves in a game that the US started and wants to win, without considering what the bottom-line risk really and truly is. That bottom-line risk is it’s own self-destruction, by it’s own hand.



If you want to develop any level of a balanced view, you may want to read or view the following links:



https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2018-08-13/forgotten-history-financial-crisis





http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-coming-war-on-china-english-subtitles-