The Art of War Outdated | Chinese People’s Latest Views on US Tariffs

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  ...