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Overbom

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Biscuits said:
Today, even as US economy keeps weakning, their threats of redrawing borders are increasing. These are fake threats as US does not have the physical means or is attempting to make a serious buildup that could possibly take over Taiwan. Instead, the threats serve as a way for the US regime to enhance it's machismo domestically, displaying to financially struggling Americans the dream of succesful aggression and looting.

Nevertheless, despite these threats nearly only existing to shore up domestic control, I don't think China should take it calmly at all. It should use every opportunity to reorient the US China relationship to one sidedly favor China, keep nothing off the table in terms of coercion methods.
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China could nuke Apple and other big US companies today, and along with tariff news, basically annihilate their stock market and that whole pyramid scheme.

Stock market, hedge funds, retail investors, stock, bonds, intra-loans, pension funds, collaterals, capital reserve ratios etc

Won't do all of that ofc because it doesnt want to actually collapse the US but expect a dragon-sized bazooka flying towards the US in the following hours/days
 
siegecrossbow

siegecrossbow

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Xiongmao said:
Are the tariffs additive? He said earlier that there was a 25% tariff on all imported cars, so does that make imported European cars 20%+25% = 45%?
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They stack like critical perks in Fallout… Just like how a properly built character could one shot a deathclaw by the end game New Vegas, buying a motor scooter could probably bankrupt an American household by the end of the Trump Presidency.
 
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US is demanding everyone else to not retaliate lmao. Threatens higher tariffs. Began the trade wars has.


Bessent Urges Against Retaliation, Says ‘Wait and See’​

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged US trading partners against taking retaliatory steps against President Donald Trump’s new set of retaliatory tariffs.

“I wouldn’t try to retaliate,” Bessent said in an interview Wednesday with Bloomberg

Television. “As long as you don’t retaliate this is the high end of the number.”

Bessent spoke shortly after Trump unveiled a 10% universal baseline tariff for many trading partners, with much higher surtaxes on others — including a 34% rate for China and 20% levy on the European Union.

“This is the high end of the number barring retaliation,” Bessent said. “As far as negotiations go — we’ll see.”
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“As long as you don’t retaliate this is the high end of the number.”
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Biscuits

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Overbom said:
China could nuke Apple and other big US companies today, and along with tariff news, basically annihilate their stock market and that whole pyramid scheme.

Stock market, hedge funds, retail investors, stock, bonds, intra-loans, pension funds, collaterals, capital reserve ratios etc

Won't do all of that ofc because it doesnt want to actually collapse the US but expect a dragon-sized bazooka flying towards the US in the following hours/days
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Yeah no on a re read I actually don't know.

This is huge not because of whatever Trump economic suiciding harder, but because this is US' Feb 24 2022 moment.

Trump just delivered the equivalent of the (in)famous SMO speech. He "recognized" the Chinese separatist regions and added a different tariff to them than he did with the rest of the country.

The tariffs are entirely unimportant.

China will most likely summon all US officials within reach soon and demand clarification, if none is given, this means relations between China and US will go to the same type as that between Ukraine and Russia after Feb 24(!!) It can only be seen if US intends to follow up it's "recognition"/war declaration by immediately moving their invasion forces, or if they will stand around doing nothing for awhile.

Much more likely the latter, because I don't think Trump coordinated this with his military at all.
 
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Overbom

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tokenanalyst said:
What a disaster.

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I think more people in the US are going to use more of this from now on. Favela style.
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You see, people can hate and criticize Vietnam all they want, but they smelled the coffee just before sht went down. Late enough to leave US, to extract all benefits from US; early enough to join China to get some first-mover benefits.

And people say Vietnamese are totally not related to Chinese lmao
 
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tokenanalyst

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Overbom said:
You see, people can hate and criticize Vietnam all they want, but they smelled the coffee just before sht went down. Late enough to leave US, to extract all benefits from US; early enough to join China to get some first-mover benefits.

And people say Vietnamese are totally not related to Chinese lmao
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One of the reason the a lot US companies moved to Vietnam is to maintain their Chinese suppliers closer, this is going to totally kill a lot US companies if consumers and manufacturers don't pay for the tariffs.
 
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