Trump 2.0 official thread

huemens

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This bit seemed interesting. Looks like they were willing to drop that 20% tariff, if China was willing to put a ban on export of fentanly and China outright turned it down. Also China wasn't interested in discussing the 25% tariffs from trumps first administration.
Well, you’ve got, remember, you’ve got all the tariffs, you got all the tariffs that President Trump set in his first term, right? And those never came up. We never discussed them at all. We have the fentanyl tariffs. And, you know, they said, look, it’s very hard for us to stop fentanyl. We said, well, you stop the magnets in like an hour. You stop the magnets in an hour. How can you not stop fentanyl ingredients in an hour? Come on. You could do it if you wanted to do it. And they said, look, that’s not on the table. So, we said, OK. So, we sent experts in the other room to discuss it. But the end result was they are on the 20% fentanyl tariffs are on and the 10% reciprocal tariffs are on. So, we have 30 for this, plus the 25 from his first term.

Is this true? Does China really buy all of it's ethane from US?
America is too great, too strong. We have too many things like plane parts, right? You can’t stockpile plane parts. If a part on a plane breaks, your plane’s on the ground. So, plane parts, ethane. We didn’t send them ethane. Ethane makes plastic. We supply 98% of their ethane. No ethane, no plastic. Imagine trying to run an economy with no plastic.
 

reservior dogs

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This bit seemed interesting. Looks like they were willing to drop that 20% tariff, if China was willing to put a ban on export of fentanly and China outright turned it down. Also China wasn't interested in discussing the 25% tariffs from trumps first administration.
The precursors are used in making other drugs. Since the Trump 1.0 days, it has been the CIA that was responsible for tracking down foreign company (outside of China) that were illegally using the precursors and notifying China. China then stops the shipments. This has become a whack a mole sort of operation. Why would the Chinese take up the responsibility of policing other countries and take the blame if they fail?
 
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