Subject: Re: One Possible Tariff Endgame
Even so. If you want to constrain China, we'll need allies. Even imperfect allies.

Imperfect? I'd choose distracted and unserious as my adjectives for Europe these days.

If our primary goal is to contain growing Chinese hegemony, then we'll need to work with the rest of the Western economies and the developing economies of Asia.

I'd rather have gone that route also. But that's neither here nor there at this point, yes? I'll let you pick the metaphor about spilled milk or water under the bridge or the train having left the station. We're standing in Mexico, and Hernán Cortés just metaphorically burned the ships. No going back to Spain now.