> Norway does more goods trade with China and for more advanced / complex goods. Norway is funding USA’s direct geopolitical competitor.

Generally, if you want other countries to do what you want, then you aim for that rather than pushing them towards China, or worse, making China seem like the best trading partner in the world.

But whatevs, you guys do you I suppose.

Interestingly I've seen a few commentators in the UK suggest we should be more open to China as a result of all this.

China always seems to play the long game and it's so much better to buy from a reliable trading partner rather than one where the rules can change with no notice. Almost the entire point of having trading deals between nations is to provide predictability. The U.S. is now going to be treated as an international pariah with pretty much every nation aiming to reduce trade with the U.S.

That makes sense to me. They both banned Samurai swords.

That's moving the goalposts though, there was nothing in any of the idiotic statements about the tariffs on trading with China.