China and US are at each other's throats on tariffs, and neither is backing down
China and US are at each other's throats on tariffs, and neither is backing down
It's so weird hoping that China tears America a new ass hole.
Fuck him up Xi.
It feels a bit like the fat bully in the playground picking a fight with the weird asian kid who is actually a kung fu black belt.
It might shock Trump to learn that most of the shit American's like to buy comes from other countries, and no one really likes to buy American stuff. Wild.
Except the fat bully doesn’t get punished. Just a significant number of people who voted for him, and even more who didn’t. Too bad we can’t just pay tariffs based on political party.
Yeah. We're all on board this wild ride and none of us are experts, but I really do have a strong suspicion that this thing is going to go real bad for Trump in a very meaningful way.
It's not just like the time he said whatever stupid thing. He's really fucked everyone for no reason and even his supporters are going to judge him harshly when they lose their jobs and everything costs twice as much.
This whole situation is just embarrassing and scary, as is the entire Trump presidency, but I'd like to point out that the US exports a fuckton of goods and services around the world. At least, the US used to export a fuckton of goods and services around the world.
The US’s largest “share” of exports to china vs other countries are soybeans and jet engines. China has spent the past decade and a half working to diversify their imports so this exact thing wouldn’t destroy their economy.
Yeah. I'm hard pressed to think of any physical goods of American origin that I would have in my home. I have noticed grapes and mandarines from the US at the supermarket but definitely no household items.
You're right about services, like digital products and software. In my own personal case there isn't much but I don't think I'm indicative of Australians generally.
I think this is why the Australian government chose not to implement tariffs. We buy American things like airplanes and microsoft windows. There's no substitute for them locally so what would be the point of a tariff ?
America experiencing it's own Moss from the IT Crowd's Fire Extinguisher made in Britain moment.
I quite like your glasses.
Even if people like American stuff they're not getting paid American salaries to buy those things.
I really like some Peak Design products I bought last year but those were quite expensive for me.
China will squeeze the Tariff-wokism out of Trump.
China is very much aware that this is its moment. Position itself as an alternative to Trump’s chaos that isn’t afraid of him and offers a different path.
Militarily, China is outmatched by a wide margin, but combine economic strategy with diplomacy in the face of a superior rival’s extreme, unforced mistakes, and China is seeing a path to win the 21st century without having to fight.
No, there will absolutely be a fight.
The moment Trump fully realizes how incredibly he's lost, he will immediate switch to military threats to save face.
He has no choice, it's one thing if the American economy collapses, but his ego is at stake here!
Nukes evens the playing field. US don't even dare touch tiny nuclear armed Nkorea. china already said they will fight to the end.
Not gonna lie, kind of rooting for China here
But China will not root for you. It follows its own interests and gives a shit about human rights. It is no better than what USA has become. It just seems to be more stable and reasonable.
China is more stable and reasonable. Normally, the problem with China is that they are authoritarian despots. In the current situation, the US is matching them on the authoritarian despot front. So, China wins by being more stable and reasonable.
Moving away from doing business with China is a problem that has to be solved in the next ten year. Moving away from the US needs to happen now.
Some of you might lose jobs, home and even die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to take.
How can they ? Trump has cancelled negotiations.
Anyway, he'll just change his mind tomorrow. Or sign an agreement and then renege on it.
GO CHINA GO!!!
China has the advantage that they still have the rest of the world to make business with.
On the long term, the US won't work without Chinese products and markets. It will not be funny for China, but it will seriously hurt the US.
Whole world, including island with only penguins, should join China on this.
The difference is that in china, they see tarifs crisis as an opportunity.
We buy a LOT more from China than they buy from us. In a protracted trade war, we will lose badly.
I honestly never thought I’d be rooting for the PRC over the USA… but here we are.
These are very fucking weird times, fellow meatbags.
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China will kick the Tariff woke-ism out of Trump
