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China should just levy heavy duties on goods from states Trump won big, and the states where Republicans are in peril; while at the same time offering concessions to goods from states where Trump lost and Democrats are doing well.

Then it should start an advertising blitz to highlight how workers/farmers in the former states are suffering.

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Advertising would be considered influencing elections, like Russia is claimed to have done. Trying to split the American people that openly would almost certainly backfire and push undecided voters to Trump. China is already, in some ways, doing some targeting specific voters like the soy bean tariffs. What are you proposing to get the middle class growing again?

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