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In reply to the discussion: Trump Says He Will Raise Existing Tariffs on Chinese Goods to 30% [View all]Berlin Expat
(950 posts)China has been through much worse than Trump.
Look at Chinas history of the 19th and 20th Centuries; the Opium Wars, the first and second Sino-Japanese Wars, the Taiping Rebellion (a conflict that left at a minimum 20,000,000 dead
.no one really knows for sure and there's casualty figures floating around out there that rival the death toll of WWII), the disastrous Great Leap Forward and the famine that followed which left millions dead in its grim wake, caused entirely by Mao Zedongs recklessness and ignorance.
The Chinese are keenly aware of their not-so-distant past.
Trump is nothing compared to what China went through in the last two centuries. Theyve suffered far, far worse than anything a shady businessman from Queens can throw at them.