{"id":689923,"date":"2010-03-12T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/another-huge-flop-all-those-predictions-of-protectionism-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-12T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:51:08","slug":"another-huge-flop-all-those-predictions-of-protectionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/689923","title":{"rendered":"Another Huge Flop: All Those Predictions Of Protectionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b8684687f8b9af13da90000-319-239\/warship-invincible.jpg?resize=319%2C239\" border=\"0\" alt=\"warship invincible\" width=\"319\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Throughout much of last year, if there was one thing everyone was SURE was going to happen, it was a trade war. It was probably going to be between China and the US.<\/p>\n<p>Now, granted, there has been a little bit. The US has slapped a few, narrow tarrifs on Chinese steel. Europe has done a little, and of course China maintains its uber-mercantilist yuan peg.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s be clear, in addition to every other doom scenario, there hasn&#8217;t been a massive trade war, and there are no signs one is about to break out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.cctv.com\/20100312\/103818.shtml\">Even the WTO<\/a>, which is as commited to free trade as they come, isn&#8217;t too concerned anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Flop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/another-huge-flop-all-those-predictions-of-protectionism-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/andy-xie-america-has-only-one-hope-to-get-jobs-back-go-nuts-with-exports-2010-2\">Andy Xie: China Better Open Up Its Economy Fast, Else An Obama Trade War Will Crush It<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-steel-turns-up-the-heat-in-the-antidumping-war-with-china-2010-1\">The Trade War Just Got Real: U.S. Steel Makes New Anti-Dumping Complaint Against China<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/michael-pettis-china-has-no-idea-how-vulnerable-it-is-to-a-trade-war-2010-1\">Michael Pettis: China Has No Idea How Vulnerable It Is To A Trade War<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/JT2Up0asvkA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout much of last year, if there was one thing everyone was SURE was going to happen, it was a trade war. It was probably going to be between China and the US. Now, granted, there has been a little bit. The US has slapped a few, narrow tarrifs on Chinese steel. Europe has done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2TtN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}