#NationalSecurityStrategy #Credibility #DualisticTrdPol Bearing costs is the only credible way to signal a change in policy. Higher tariffs & NTBs on imports from China are credible, precisely because they also impose some cost on ourselves. Empty Talk is cheap and non-credible.
2/lad #Ladakh This thread seems credible given the clearer maps: https://t.co/jhJwNGZbFv
2/nss In a #democracy, a #voluntary #private #boycott of #CCPchinaInc organized by #civil #society, can be a powerful instrument, if and when, 100s of 1000s of free people voluntarily bear the higher cost of not buying cheap chinese goods. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
3/lad and this thread https://t.co/D4l89Y9MJ6
4/lad #Sustainability is however an important element of #Credibility. A sustainable NS&FP policy must impose more costs on the enemy than on oneself, and the benefit-cost ratio for policy must >1?
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