manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Facebook comments were pretty ugly before since Trump started attacking all US allies with tariffs but they are really, really ugly now with Trump and Bessent squealing like pigs at China's rare earth and boy bean purchase bans. Basically everyone who's commenting is saying they brought this on themselves.
2 most common points echoed by almost everyone:
1. "You're allowed to attack China with chips bans and tariffs but they can't hit back with rare earth bans and soybean snub?"
2. "It's their rare earth; they can do whatever they want with them."
The last remaining and disappearing bastion of spinning for Trump/Bessent is getting weirder and weirder and right now, it is:
China mined these rare earths from Tibet/Inner Mongolia/Xinjiang; they have no right to keep them (because the rabid anti-China nutjobs want to portray these regions as pro-Western and not parts of China).
The voices that defended Trump's global tariff war with, "We need to level the playing field; they were taking advantage of us," have largely died out because as it turns out, hitting someone, then crying when they hit you back and put you on the floor is a really bad look, even for the MAGA peeps.
This is an increase of Chinese soft power made possible by the hard power defeat of America's trade and tech wars.
2 most common points echoed by almost everyone:
1. "You're allowed to attack China with chips bans and tariffs but they can't hit back with rare earth bans and soybean snub?"
2. "It's their rare earth; they can do whatever they want with them."
The last remaining and disappearing bastion of spinning for Trump/Bessent is getting weirder and weirder and right now, it is:
China mined these rare earths from Tibet/Inner Mongolia/Xinjiang; they have no right to keep them (because the rabid anti-China nutjobs want to portray these regions as pro-Western and not parts of China).
The voices that defended Trump's global tariff war with, "We need to level the playing field; they were taking advantage of us," have largely died out because as it turns out, hitting someone, then crying when they hit you back and put you on the floor is a really bad look, even for the MAGA peeps.
This is an increase of Chinese soft power made possible by the hard power defeat of America's trade and tech wars.
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