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escalation as well. last year, 149.2% of china s overall trade surplus related to sales from the united states. that s up from an already-stupendous 90.1% in 2008. so they re not there to torpedo us? clearly not. they would just kill their economy, which means they would kill their political system, the communist party, be out of power. everybody would lose their power. is it fair to say, peter, the communist party, and the reason they re so fearful and aggressive in pushing for these riggings and extraction is to ensure full employment for the young people in that country, because they don t want people on the streets? that s right, dylan, but here s the thing. it s like, no question that over the last ten years, currency manipulation, illegal export subsidies, counterfeiting and pirs, all of the unfair trade practices that china engages in has worked for them, even as it s killed the american manufacturing base, but china has to realize that in order to move forward, from t