An angle I didn't notice discussed here on HN is that while this confusion about DOGE among the general US public continues, it's a great time for China to advance it's agenda and to weaken the US.
I can almost guarantee that channels of communication have opened between the EU, Canada, and other allies and the Chinese gov't on ways to de-escalate existing tariffs and restrictions (that were often enacted in concert with the US) now that the US has turned on them.
Here in Canada we put 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs the same time as the US did, as part of an attempt to defend the local autosector, which lives on both side of the border.
But if Trump is set to demolish that anyways, and make it infeasible for the Big3 to work effectively across North America, how long before China comes knocking?
