Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1122-W754

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1122-W754

Release Date: July 7, 2018

发布日：2018年7月7日

Topic: Xi Jinping Says "A Tooth For a Tooth" for the China-US Trade War -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：习近平说以牙还牙 -- 魏京生

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Xi Jinping Says "A Tooth For a Tooth" for the China-US Trade War

-- Wei Jingsheng

Facing Trump's trade war, Xi Jinping said that he would return with "a tooth for a tooth". Immediately there were netizen writers laughing: What tooth do you have for someone else's teeth? This is really a big truth. Not only the Internet writers, but also the experts and scholars who understand things are laughing at him secretly: what ability do you have, besides barking like a puppy to scare people?

It is said that there is some senior advisor who gave Xi a rotten idea, which is called "punishment in quality". If we look at that quality, which can not even protect China's ZTE Corperation, then one cannot tell what measure of "punishment in quality" it could be. Most media speculate that they could be American companies that set up factories in China. So when these words came out, the stock prices of those companies fell off miserably on the US stock market. How could this be called "punishment in quality"? It is really punishing themselves to scare the others, as we often described the hooligans in Tianjin who would try to scare others by chewing on the characoal balls heated into red and bright colors.

Who would be afraid of such punishment? It punishes the foreign companies that have invested in China in the past 20 years to help China develop rapidly. What are the results at the end? It spelled out that those who help the Communist regime will be in misery; thus in the future no one will dare to help the Communist regime for the purpose of earning the money that lacks a conscience. The part of these companies in the USA will also be affected, and thus will really resent the Communist regime. So it would not be easy for Wang Qishan trying to rope in these so-called old friends in the US business circle.

There are people inside China who do understand the situation. Most of the people who know international trade know two basic common senses. One is that China has developed rapidly over the past decades, relying on taking advantage of the United States. The other is that one should not have a trade war with the USA due to the current level of development in China, as it will for sure be defeated. When one has developed by taking advantage of the others, one lacks emboldment. It is reasonable for the others who do not want to let you continue to take advantage of them. In reality for any reason there is no need to fight this trade war. Why does Xi Jinping have to do so?

Some friends attribute this to his character of grandiosity. Some friends said that he lost the sense of himself as an emperor. So does that mean that his friends and close ministers are giving stinking advices and taking stupid actions? Some other friends said that Xi is like many of the last emperors who would only listened to the words of pleasure, but not the good advice which may sound harsh. This is the result from the elimination of freedom of speech. Let us check out those who surround him and are making suggestions that Xi Jinping would accept. They include Cai Qi and Wang Huning, who are either surprisingly stupid, or impressively cunning, as a veteran who has made it through three dynasties.

Then why does Xi Jinping still want to fight this trade war with all his emboldment? In addition to him listening to the flattery of idiots and cunningmen, he has the psychology of a gambler. He feels that Donald Trump's past approach was to threaten first and then compromise, so this time Trump will follow suit. When Trump compromises, Xi would implement a plan to slow down and drag this old guy to his death.

Plus, Xi thought that by not buying American agricultural products, Trump would lose his votes in the agricultural states, which would force him to compromise. This idea is really a stupid thought from the brain of a pig. What is the population in these so-called agricultural states? The vast majority there are still industrial workers who had lost their jobs in the past two decades. Even if Xi's plan went on successfully, the elected Democratic Party members will still effectively be in support of Trump by taking back the jobs that were lost. It is now both political parties in the USA supporting the trade war -- who does not support it will have to step down. That is why this idea really is a stupid one which came from some advisors with the brains of the pigs.

What happens to China if Xi Jinping loses his gamble? Experts and scholars both inside China and abroad generally believe that as China is approaching an economic crisis now, a trade war means economic collapse in China and the collapse of the Communist Party. I would not pity Xi Jinping at all. But I feel pity to most of the Chinese who already have a tough life to live on.

Some friends have asked me how to solve this problem; I don't know. Anyway, as Xi Jinping keeps gambling, China will not be able to strike back at the next wave of strikes from the USA. When Xi turns back to compromise, he will have to pay an even a higher price, with the ultimate goal of reforming China's legal system and returning to the normal trade rules. If Xi Jinping will not be overthrown by an internal coup, the Communist Party will be overthrown by the uprising of the Chinese people. In either way, Xi Jinping will not be able to find a burial place when he died.

The difference between the two consequences is that the Chinese people will suffer more, or suffer less. However, if the Communist leadership does not fall in China, the Chinese people will have to endure even more suffering.

Original link of this RFA commentary by Wei Jingsheng:

https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/pinglun/weijingsheng/wjs-07022018105919.html

To hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's related commentary, please visit:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2018/WeiJS180627onXiJPtrade.mp3

(Written and recorded on June 27, 2018. Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia.)

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1122-W754

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1122-W754

Release Date: July 7, 2018

发布日：2018年7月7日

Topic: Xi Jinping Says "A Tooth For a Tooth" for the China-US Trade War -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：习近平说以牙还牙 -- 魏京生

Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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习近平说以牙还牙

-- 魏京生

面对川普的贸易战，习近平说以牙还牙。马上就有网络写手笑话他说：你拿什么牙还人家的牙呢？这可真是个大实话，不但网络写手，就是明白事儿的专家学者们也在暗地里嗤笑他：就你那两下子，不就是小狗汪汪叫，吓唬人呢。

据说还有高参给他出了个馊主意，叫做质量性惩罚。就您老那点儿质量，连一个中兴公司都罩不住，看不出还有什么质量型的手段。大多数媒体都猜测，就是那些在中国设厂的美国公司。所以狠话一出笼，那些公司在美国股市上就惨跌。这哪里是惩罚别人，这就是天津卫的混混吃烧红的煤球，自己惩罚自己吓唬人呢。

这样的惩罚谁害怕呢？它惩罚的是二十年来在中国投资帮助中国快速发展的外国企业。结果是什么呢？就是过去谁帮助了共产党谁倒霉，今后也没人敢再帮共产党赚昧良心的钱了。这些公司在美国的部分也跟着吃挂落，他们对共产党也会恨上加恨。王岐山再去拉拢那些所谓的老朋友，估计也没什么戏了。

国内也不是没有明白人。多数懂点国际贸易的人，都知道两个最基本的常识。一个是中国几十年来发展迅速，靠的是占人家美国的便宜。另一个就是以现在的发展水平，不应该和美国打贸易战，打则必输。靠占人家便宜的发展没有底气；人家不想让你继续占便宜也是理所应当。于现实于道理都没有必要打这场贸易战，为什么习近平非要这么干呢？

有些朋友把这归结于他的好大喜功的性格，还有些朋友说他当了皇帝轻飘飘了，不知道自己是老几。那他的朋友近臣都是臭棋篓子吗？又有朋友说了；他和许多末代皇帝一样，只听得进美言，听不进逆耳的忠言。这就是消灭了言论自由的结果。看看他周围能够说得上话的都是什么人呢？蔡奇、王沪宁等等。不是蠢得出奇，就是三朝元老，狡猾得出奇。

那为什么小习还那么底气十足的要打这场贸易战呢？除了听从蠢货和奸猾之徒的阿谀奉承之外，就是赌徒心理。他们觉得川普过去的手法是先威胁后妥协，这次也会如法炮制。等川普妥协的时候再实行缓兵之计，把他老家伙给拖死。

再加上我不买你美国农产品，让你丢掉农业州的选票，看你妥协不妥协？这个主意确实只有猪脑子才能想得出来。所谓的农业州有多少农业人口？绝大多数还是工业人口，而且是在前二十年丢了工作的家庭。就算你的奸计成功，选上的民主党议员还是会支持川普夺回丢掉的工作。现在是两党支持打贸易战，谁不支持谁下台。所以才说都是猪脑子智囊。

而习近平万一赌输了，会给中国带来什么后果呢？国内外专家学者普遍认为：以中国现在正临近经济危机的状况来看，贸易战就意味着经济崩溃，共产党垮台。我根本不可怜习近平，我可怜那些本来日子就很勉强的大多数老百姓。

有朋友问这个局怎么解，我也不知道。反正习近平这局赌下去，美国后面的大招中国接不住。再回过头来妥协，价码就更高了，直到最终的目标，改革中国的法制体系，回到正常的贸易规矩。而习近平如果不被内部的政变所推翻，就是共产党被人民的起义所推翻。反正小习是死无葬身之地了。

两种后果的差别，就是老百姓受的罪多一些还是少一些。反正共产党不倒台，老百姓就有得罪受呢。

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