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The real question mark is if the counter-actions are only counter-US, or also include other country-specific grievances. We are already seeing European establishment media consider the quote/unquote 'necessity' of countering Chinese dumping for Chinese goods that redirect from the US to EU.
The more this becomes a global everyone-vs-everyone, rather than US-only trade war, the greater the negative impacts to countries that depend more on foreign trade. And if you rank countries by their trade-to-GDP ratios, i.e. how much of their GDP comes from selling abroad, or even imports-to-GDP ratio...
Well, the United States is ranked 183 of 195 countries in terms of exports as % of GDP (11.6%), and 191 of 195 in terms of imports as % of GDP (15.4%). It is one of the least global-trade economies in the world in terms of %s. There are certainly grounds for not over-stating that statistic alone. Even small %s to the scale of the US economy can be big absolute numbers. But the general point is there are reasons to suspect the US will do relatively well the worse global trade environment gets for everyone even if that matters little for domestic political purposes.
Some asian countries are already signaling an intent to negotiation rather than stick to 'fuck trump,' so the nature of political suicide may be more limited than the anglosphere media generally recognizes.
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