Allllll up and down the pacific rim, dawg. Much of LA you couldn't buy a house for less than $500k because a Chinese REIT was there with cash. Apparently over $500k and you're in a new finance regime and all of a sudden you're bargaining against humans again.

Trump's trade war with China is, indeed, forcing some behavioral changes in the Chinese marketplace. Nothing is without externalities, though. I mean, all the libs hated the shit out of the TPP because it basically made foreign citizens subject to corporate penalties in countries they didn't live in. But it was also the "contain the shit out of China" act.

Gavekal called this whole Huawei dustup "this century's Suez crisis" because a thousand years ago it was roads, a hundred years ago it was ships and now empire belongs to whoever controls the data.

The bottom line is this: if the symbol of British domination was the steamship, and the symbol of American strength was the Boeing 747, it seems increasingly clear that the question of the future will be whether tomorrow’s telecom switches and routers are produced by Huawei or Cisco. In that regard, the US attempts to take down Huawei and ZTE can be seen as the existing empire’s attempt to prevent the ascent of a new imperial power.

Curious as to your opinions on the other side of the class. I'm armchair at best.