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>>13552835
>when has Trump been bluffing like this in the past?
Last year
>do you have any real-world negotiation experience?
Yes
>do you have any business place experience where you see things like this happening?

When there is more than one counterparty in a negotiation, the interdependencies scale. Ex. buying a property with 3 partners. (n=4) 4th party is the seller. 2^4=16 have to come to agreement.

Each party creates interdependencies that scale with the number of parties.

Now scale up to 40Tn of GDP...

People?

>China: But in modern China, there are up to 50 million officials, amounting to about one official for every 27 people.,
vs.
>US: The federal bureaucracy is huge: roughly 2.6 million employees, plus many freelance contractors

If Trump is signalling Tariffs it means some groups is applying leverage. Where and how is anyone's guess.