China is better positioned for an All out Trade war than the U.S.

Why?

Because 2/3 of the Chinese people are in poverty and therefore are not addicted to the lifestyle that most Americans are. So, if an all out trade war occurs the biggest victims likely would be the poor and middle Class in America.

300 million Chinese actually have tuberculosis and another 300 million are lower middle class and middle Class (different standard than the U.S.) and 300 to 400 million people have middle class and Upper class lifestyles similar to the U.S. and are well educated. But, this isn't true of 2/3 of Chinese population. Basically as you can see below from google Search the present population of China is about 1.4 billion people. However, I do know that 200 to 300 million Chinese have tuberculosis mostly out in the country. And some forms of this TB are not curable by modern medicine.

Begin quote from Google Search with the key words "present China population". The U.S. percentage of world population is about 4%.

The current population of China is 1,419,380,971 as of Monday, May 13, 2019, based on the latest United Nations estimates. China population is equivalent to 18.41% of the total world population.

China Population (2019) - Worldometers

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/china-population/

Also, Trump is playing a very short term selfish game with the chinese but they are playing a 50 to 100 year game or longer. From their point of view, their success came from making a deal with kissinger and Nixon in the 1970s. This is where their success actually started from kissinger and Nixon.

So, from a Chinese point of view Trump is some temporary asshole making waves in their financial success and likely will be dead or gone soon through impeachment. In fact, it likely would be in their interests to help impeach Trump with information they have on him, so far.

So, it is really dificult for sure to say what the Chinese are going to do with the U.S. because we are a long term economic ally even if we are a system of government adversary in some ways since Mao Tse Tung.

In some ways we became an economic ally of China to avoid a nuclear war with them. Kissinger and Nixon thought this up and made it actually work.

So, it depends upon many different things where all this Trade War stuff goes now. Is China into a Long Game still or is it worth them economically destroying the U.S. (and themselves to some degree) through a Trade War?

The problem with Trade Wars is usually (almost always) both sides lose. So, this is why Trump is so Crazy because usually everyone loses through a trade war like he is having right now with China.

There is usually no upside to a trade war, except for the countries watching who aren't involved in it at all.

Who at present is the biggest winner of this Trade War with China? Putin who is controlling Trump into having this Trade war with China in the first place. I wonder how much Putin is going to pay Trump for having this Trade war with China? Likely Putin will arrange loans for Trump to stay in business after office with Deutchebank in Germany.