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Sunday will mark the next escalation in the trade war between washington and beijing. 15 import taxes on about 120 billion of chinese imports. Whether either side might be getting ready to blank. My discussions with chinese and american friends and china is looking more and more alike we are not any closer. It seems that china has begun to hunker down. China has waited this out, and china thinks that they can weather the storm more easily than President Trump or americans think they might. China is beginning to look for other markets for their exports and they are doing a pretty good job doing that, so it is the longer haul. There is also a sense that it is becoming more political than economic. President trump might be timing potential deals closer to the election rather than earlier. That is the next couple of three weeks. People are starting to adjust to all of the changes. The trouble is there is still in immense uncertainty. ....