{"id":21026,"date":"2026-01-10T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21026"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:17:03","slug":"nothing-terrifies-chinese-policymakers-more-former-chief-u-s-treasury-diplomat-jay-shambaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21026","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nothing Terrifies Chinese Policymakers More\u201d | Former Chief U.S. Treasury Diplomat Jay Shambaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US is in its weakest position compared&nbsp;to China. The US&#8217;s global trade war makes it less able to threaten China with a coalition of countries working together to counter it economically, and the US&#8217;s trade war with China revealed America&#8217;s&nbsp;severe weaknesses, which is why the US keeps backing down when the bilateral trade war reaches extremes. China was starting to understand and respond to a more coalitional strategy when that got blown up with a change of president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The uncertainty of Trump&#8217;s tariffs have hurt small businesses and people who buy from them. If people can&#8217;t be sure how much something&nbsp;will&nbsp;cost, sometimes they just hold off on that economic activity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cNothing Terrifies Chinese Policymakers More\u201d | Former Chief U.S. Treasury Diplomat Jay Shambaugh\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uE6U7SFZz-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US is in its weakest position compared to China. The US&#8217;s global trade war makes it less able to threaten China with a coalition of countries working together to counter it economically, and the US&#8217;s trade war with China revealed America&#8217;s severe weaknesses, which is why the US keeps backing down when the bilateral trade war reaches extremes. China was starting to understand and respond to a more coalitional strategy when that got blown up with a change of president. <\/p>\n<p>The uncertainty of Trump&#8217;s tariffs have hurt small businesses and people who buy from them. If people can&#8217;t be sure how much something will cost, sometimes they just hold off on that economic activity. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uE6U7SFZz-s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[729,89,221,1915,217,165,272,355,314,226,227,170,619],"class_list":["post-21026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-east-asia","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21027,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026\/revisions\/21027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}