2025-12-08 09:33:07

This perfectly illustrates why trade needs a systemic view, not just a bilateral one. Here's the thing: as long as the US keeps running massive and expanding trade deficits, those deficits with other countries end up bankrolling their deficits with China. It's a circular flow that's often missed when people fixate on direct bilateral numbers. The real picture? Way more interconnected than most realize.

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LiquidityWizard

· 15h ago

ngl the circular flow thing is actually statistically significant but like... most people won't bother doing the math on it. bilateral fixation is basically cope at this point tbh

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NFT_Therapy_Group

· 12-08 10:00

This trade war is really like a triangle. The US deficit supports others, others' deficits support China, it's all really interconnected.

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WalletInspector

· 12-08 09:57

This trick, to put it bluntly, is just moving debt around, and in the end, it all flows to China. No wonder nobody can understand it.

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ContractBugHunter

· 12-08 09:54

To be honest, the binary opposition mindset of trade wars should have been abandoned long ago. The real issue is this cyclical system... Whenever the US deficit expands, payments from other countries to China increase accordingly. No one truly understands this logic chain.

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