This was interesting if true in regards to the tariff wars between the US and China. Today, there was as surprise move where the US was going to delay its tariff for virtually every place except China as they have specifically decided to retaliate against the US. In contrast, a lot of other countries decided to simply re-negotiate which seemed like the intention before. Because China just jumped at the US people were saying they fell for the trap as they essentially panicked and are ow in a bad position.
Whether or not that actually was intentionally planned as a business move of sort is up for debate. But it does make you think of a business strategy that many people actually do where they setup a bait of sort in hopes that their competitors react irrationally to the point where they will lose a lot of money. I usually only see companies try to do a fake out where they pretend they are going to do say some kind of expensive event that gets their competitors worried where if they don’t do something they will be overshadowed. Therefore, the company just spends all this money to host an event just to find out they have been misled. Or, this can happen when it comes to buying inventory where they are tricked to buy more than they should with fake fear that another business is going to buy everything.
This is like playing a game of chess in many ways huh? Shows how alert you have to be in thinking ahead and whether or not you are being played per se.