If this affection of yours, or whatever you call it, is going to make you a miserable slave, it is not for you good to be affectionate.

What will happen if almost all trading partners succumb to Trumps tariffs, make deals with the US and the Chinese remain the (almost) only one outside? Was this perhaps the plan?

If you take everything with equanimity you mount to a place from which no force can drag you down, where neither fear, nor hope, nor pain find access.

What Trump did changed the ideological projection of our time. After the tariffs initiation a return to globalization will be quasi impossible as there is no hegemon who guarantees both the trustworthiness of the globalization process and the trustworthiness of the participants

When fits of dejection become infrequent and the protests of the sound sense come quickly to our support, we may believe that our progress is firmly founded. Plutarch

Now that US has nothing to lose, US companies might sue China for IP violation in US courts, win tens of trlns and, as a next logical step, enact control over Chinese passage through Malacca (nomen est omen), Panama and Suez straights. And that’s it for China.

Is there, then, anything that a disturbed mind can do better than one which is calm and steady?

The mind by its right use of material assets makes them profitable, and by wrong use renders them harmful. Plato