Trump 2.0 official thread

[GulfLander]

Wasnt "balance of power" been the goto principle for years by US?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1984124024675590554

 

[SteelBird]

After negotiation, we know that the US agrees to reduce tariff to 47% from 57% (still too high, I think) and China agrees to buy American soybean. However, I do not read anywhere that how much tariff does China impose to American goods? Can someone explain please?

 

[tygyg1111]

So Mango Man made a working perpetual motion machine? Someone nominate him for a Nobel Prize in Physics.

This is the second one; perpetual motion in economics. The first one was making Kissinger spin in his grave

 

[FriedButter]

After negotiation, we know that the US agrees to reduce tariff to 47% from 57% (still too high, I think) and China agrees to buy American soybean. However, I do not read anywhere that how much tariff does China impose to American goods? Can someone explain please?

32.6%

 

[arthur2046]

After negotiation, we know that the US agrees to reduce tariff to 47% from 57% (still too high, I think) and China agrees to buy American soybean. However, I do not read anywhere that how much tariff does China impose to American goods? Can someone explain please?

The 57% tariff figure consists of the newly imposed 20% "fentanyl tariff" and 10% "reciprocal tariff" this year, along with the 27% tariff from Trump's first term. China has implemented retaliatory tariffs and other countermeasures in each round, though its retaliatory tariffs are not uniformly applied and vary across different products. Following the recent negotiations, the U.S. maintains new tariffs of 20% (10% fentanyl tariff + 10% reciprocal tariff) on Chinese goods, while China's retaliatory tariffs targeting these new U.S. tariffs are estimated to range between 20% and 30% (excluding previous tariffs), in addition to other countermeasures. The United States has made significant concessions after China played the "rare earth card."

 

[uguduwa]

As others have mentioned already, Trump‘s ”negotiations” amount to nothing and the US comes out worse for it. Everything about MAGA is self destructive. A movement based around promoting the most incompetent, corrupt and cruel people into positions of power will never result in any positive change and will only lead to ruin. That is America’s future under the current Trump regime, and given how deeply ingrained MAGA ideology is in the country I am not sure Democrat electoral victories will result in long term change without radical action.

And people here blame minorities for the mess created by Trump and his mob of white supremacists. Tell me China won‘t be just as dysfunctional if it were a democracy, maybe even worse.

 

[manqiangrexue]

There has been much online hubbub about what Trump whispered to Xi before they parted. Caption contest!! My entry:

"Help; the Jews have taken us all prisoner. Please send J-36/50."

 

[Sinnavuuty]

While America might be fixated on China, China doesn’t just make moves because of America.

One thing that strikes me with this truce is the timing. Right as China is posed to take the proverbial wrecking ball to European manufacturing thanks to Dutch lunacy at the behest of the Americans.

With his much sort after deal in hand, do you think Trump would give that up to stand up for the EuroCucks?

I expect Chinese pressure to increase against the Euros now. China will basically be demanding the impossible from them, without it being obvious to the average European on the streets by demanding settlements in RMB for bilateral trade as one of the many conditions for resuming Chinese critical supplies.

I think China is going to seek to cause real lasting damage to the EU because it has concluded that it’s inevitable that the EU will side with America against China in any hot war. So one less European car factory today is one less tank factory in the future.

Winter has come for the EU.

A saying goes: A bird that hangs out with bats wakes up upside down.

 

[GulfLander]

The Trump administration is preparing to attack military installations inside Venezuela, targeting facilities used by the Soles drug cartel allegedly led by President Nicolás Maduro, according to the Miami Herald, citing sources familiar with the situation.

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