They Really Thought Jensen Wasn’t Going to China

People are impressed when little kids are brought out to greet POTUS, as if it represents something uniquely profound.

But that behavior is normal almost everywhere in the world.

Go to an airport in many developing countries and watch families greet arrivals with overwhelming emotion, celebration, and symbolism. Human beings naturally ritualize power, status, and return.

What’s more interesting is what happens afterward.

Many married boomer executives will fly to China to “open markets” and sell more Western dependency into the same system they publicly describe as a competitor.

Why?

Because the economic benefits of low-cost labor and industrial scale are simply too attractive.

And because those factories and supply chains are geographically and psychologically distant enough from the Middle East that they do not trigger the same emotional reaction like Iran?

Of course Jensen Huang will go there to expand distribution and sell more chips.

That is the incentive structure.

Then POTUS returns home and highlights the “great deals” made, while tariffs and restrictions continue to soften under pressure from multinational interests and global capital flows.

With new market high’s.

That is the contradiction:
public rhetoric about sovereignty and rivalry existing alongside deep economic interdependence.