Jack Ma: 'If trade stops, war starts'
Ma seems to be saying to the United States: Continue running trade deficits with China, subsidizing China's ill-conceived domestic social and economic policies, or war. If this is what Ma is saying (it essentially is) then war with China is inevitable and better engaged in now, while the US still enjoys a qualitative advantage.<p>Anyone doubting this interpretation of Ma's comments needs to read Michael Pettis' commentary on Chinese economic policy:<p><a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/22/chinas-currency-manipulation-actually-enhances-the-global-role-of-the-dollar-sdr-rmb-balance-of-payments/" rel="nofollow">http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/22/chinas-currency-manipula...</a><p><a href="http://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/66485" rel="nofollow">http://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/66485</a><p>UPDATE: Comments claiming Ma only says, "keep trading"... don't understand how trade works between US-China (read Pettis links above), and are not paying attention to coincidental news from China about new DF-16 ICBM's pointed at the United States. Its almost as if China plans to negotiate trade with a gun pointed at the Trump administration's head.