"We had a valid trade agreement that we negotiated, but now we will tariff your economy into recession. Or you can join us."

"You don't want to join us? Have more tariffs!"

"You are fighting back with tariffs? Have more tariffs!"

"You are discussing increasing trade with others? What happened to our friendship?!"

Maybe you should ask the same question to all the people in Taiwan who traveled to the mainland.

>Close to 3 million Taiwanese have travelled to mainland China for tourism, study and work this year, according to official data from Beijing.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3283272/bei...

And unlike the US, China is actually engaged in live fire exercises around the island: https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20241019_CNM...

I'm one such person. I just visited because the weather was incredible and the people were/are fabulous.