Some of you may be taking pride in China's resolute stance against Trump's tariffs. But one small nation is TRULY ready to defend it's interests at all costs!
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Liberals won't do anything before the election.
After the election, if they win, I give it 50% chance they fold fully to US including 10% chance of becoming 51st state voluntarily (it's a biological desire after all), 25% chance they lean toward China and abolish EV tariff, and 25% chance they do nothing.
Yes, so it can be increased to 180%, 200%, and beyond in the future. It will be good and beautiful I can tell you now. Good and beautiful.
So they hate the people as well?
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"Evidence of 22,000-year-old vehicles was hiding beneath the sand"
(Doss it convince you?)
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"Evidence of 22,000-year-old vehicles was hiding beneath the sand"
(Doss it convince you?)
They always have.
The number doesn't matter now, it is just a mutual embargo really. For China it is losing 2 to 3% GDP's worth of export, for US it is 15% of their import. China can dig in and see whether US can survive without China's industrial input, but I don't think China cares that much either way.
This is not Trump's nuclear option, he used his nuclear option in his first term which was the tech ban, back then it was unclear to a lot of Chinese whether China's tech industry can survive that and there was a genuine sense of uncertainty. But as we've seen the tech industry not only survived but actually thrived thanks to the tech ban.
There is nothing that really scares China now, we can just eat water melon and see how the drama inside US unfold, it is going to be entertaining
Some argue that maybe they want weaker $ for export benefit, but other claim they want strong $? Which one does Trump2.0 want?
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Maybe not all, but a number of them...
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Everyday I yern for the cleansing warmth of nuclear fire to wipe these evil little cretins off the face of the earth.
(figure of speech)
Yes, I believe so. I briefly mentioned it in the Trump thread, but Trump's tariffs had been 20%, 34%, then 50%, which signaled that he was willing to escalate indefinitely. However, China called his bluff and matched it every step of the way. That the latest increase was a decrease in the rate of increase to 25% followed by the comment that he doesn't believe there'll be further China tariffs signals that he's now willing to stop the escalation. I believe that China will signal the same and answer that with non-tariff retaliations. At the current rate, any further increase by either side doesn't really matter that much, as most trade will be stopped and fewer and fewer companies will be affected. The first battle is over and the main takeaway right now is that both sides are willing to fight.
Each side will now take a pause, assess the battleground, and prepare for the next salvo. As I've mentioned before, I believe that China's best strategy is to strengthen itself. Use the current anti-US mood to broaden and deepen trade relations with other countries. The US's best strategy IMO is to change tactics. Rather than continuing to try to attack China it needs to shore up the flanks and close the ranks. They need to offer carrots instead of just sticks to the ROW to prevent China from making inroads elsewhere.