How the U.S. Can Win the Vietnam Trade War

Tariffs are on.

Now they will come running.

You don’t need to worry about their intentionally low GDP per capita—that was their version of fake socialism, which had no trickle-down effect. It’s all centralized. They centrally plan their forex reserves.

Your primary objective is to get them to buy from you. Because in doing so, they’re also forced to assess what they are buying from China. If they buy less from China and more from you, that’s a good thing.

Yet, you need to be even smarter, my American friends - I got you!

Don’t let them buy something they can reroute and liquidate—like energy—unless it's for domestic consumption. They have a history of rerouting.

This is a key point: you need to selectively isolate the weapons and defense purchases. You've already established through trade that any threat in the South China Sea is not a real threat.

So that begs the question: what is the purpose of these weapons?

If they purchase them, it's to sustain absolute authoritarian control over their people—something they’d need if the economy stumbles.

POTUS highlights China’s spending on arms and defense purchases. He even questions it. But that’s what happens when you’re sitting on a surplus.

You want them to purchase things they deem productive. I mean, that’s fair, right? You do that when you buy their junk—as consumers, not as central planners.

The best option is to cut off all trade.

But if you must trade—

Be wise.

They are super tricky—all of them.

The issue is, they are not creators or innovators with ingenuity.