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Today, April 10th, BBC China just posted an interview on Chinese’s People responses towards Trump’s Tariffs. None of the interviewees are really worried, to be honest, so am I. I’ll explain it to you as a Chinese myself, and I hope this episode would reach some decision-makers who’re hesitating and tortured by the anxiety and uncertainty.
First of all, I want to mention something interesting about the interview on BBC’s Youtube Channel, the first review showed in the comments section got more that 2000 likes. Surprising, it’s a quote from Chinese classical literature, an essay written by Su Sun a thousand years ago. It’s an essay on how the sates of Qing defeated the rest six sates altogether and established the first unified empire in China’s history . The name of this essay is called ‘On the six fallen states’. And the quote on the comments section is as follows: Cut five cities today, then ten cities tomorrow, only for a calm sleep overnight. Starting to look at the four realms, the Qin soldiers had already reach our boarder. However, our land is limited, but the desire of the Qin is insatiable.
I bet every Chinese would laugh when reading this review. That’s why the moment that Trump threaten to raise 50% more tariffs on China. I instantly preview Chinese government’s answer like most Chinese intellectual would. In the current situation, China, Europe, Canada, and other counties with similar status in term of economic strength are the six states in the essay, and the US is the Qin empire. Do you know what’s the conclusion from the essay ? Why six states were defeated by one state? Su Xun put it directly because each of the six was eager to bribe and lobby Qin not to invade them rather than find alliance among the six and fight direct with Qin to erase the harassment for good.
So you could imagine that China would continue to counter back if Trump keeps his strategy unchanged. Interestingly enough, I found this quote was also used four years ago by some Chinese as a comment on US government’s forcing TikTok sales. It’s kind of the same mentality, so I’ll save my words on it.
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By Holly WuToday, April 10th, BBC China just posted an interview on Chinese’s People responses towards Trump’s Tariffs. None of the interviewees are really worried, to be honest, so am I. I’ll explain it to you as a Chinese myself, and I hope this episode would reach some decision-makers who’re hesitating and tortured by the anxiety and uncertainty.
First of all, I want to mention something interesting about the interview on BBC’s Youtube Channel, the first review showed in the comments section got more that 2000 likes. Surprising, it’s a quote from Chinese classical literature, an essay written by Su Sun a thousand years ago. It’s an essay on how the sates of Qing defeated the rest six sates altogether and established the first unified empire in China’s history . The name of this essay is called ‘On the six fallen states’. And the quote on the comments section is as follows: Cut five cities today, then ten cities tomorrow, only for a calm sleep overnight. Starting to look at the four realms, the Qin soldiers had already reach our boarder. However, our land is limited, but the desire of the Qin is insatiable.
I bet every Chinese would laugh when reading this review. That’s why the moment that Trump threaten to raise 50% more tariffs on China. I instantly preview Chinese government’s answer like most Chinese intellectual would. In the current situation, China, Europe, Canada, and other counties with similar status in term of economic strength are the six states in the essay, and the US is the Qin empire. Do you know what’s the conclusion from the essay ? Why six states were defeated by one state? Su Xun put it directly because each of the six was eager to bribe and lobby Qin not to invade them rather than find alliance among the six and fight direct with Qin to erase the harassment for good.
So you could imagine that China would continue to counter back if Trump keeps his strategy unchanged. Interestingly enough, I found this quote was also used four years ago by some Chinese as a comment on US government’s forcing TikTok sales. It’s kind of the same mentality, so I’ll save my words on it.