China slaps retaliatory tariffs of 84% on U.S. goods in response to Trump
China slaps retaliatory tariffs of 84% on U.S. goods in response to Trump
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China slaps 84% retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods in response to Trump
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If they negotiate and this fizzles out the nothing ever happens gang will be insufferable
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I don't think Trump's ego can let him back down on this.
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What’s the over/under till he gets JFK’d? 3 months?
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IDK, he's got the devil's luck. There's already been two failed attempts (that we know about)
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The one we didn't hear about was a successful attempt, and he has since been replaced by his Disney Hall of Presidents animatronic. Thus far, no one has been able to tell the difference.
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Wait but...
That animatronic is actually a hastily rebuilt Hillary Clinton animatronic.
If Trump's been replaced by that animatronic, then that means IT'S HER TURN!
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Three if you count the British guy in Las Vegas the first time around grabbing a cop's gun
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This is what I keep wondering. A lot of extremely powerful people are losing a lot of money right now. They have the ability to get rid of him by throwing massive amounts of money at people behind the scenes. Time will tell. I think the powers that be are still very much in a weather the storm wait and see stance, and I can't honestly guess how long they feel like they'll be able to. Once they feel like they're almost at the end of what they can sustain then we'll see a violent change.
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It's my turn
But actually I feel like this is why SV elite wanted JD Vance as vp. For a backup in case Trump doesn't work out
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I figured Trump's mostly doing this to bring those powerful "domestic" actors to the table, right? He's consolidating power for something worse, probably.
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I think there is a lot they can do before resorting to that. They haven’t even turned the propaganda machine against Trump yet. They could pay off congress to impeach him.
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Me neither, also after JD Vance publicly called Chinese people peasants, I don't think the CPC will back down at all and they can easily get the public on their side by just playing that clip on national TV. Meanwhile tariffs being unpopular in the US will only make Trump double down.
I think this is only going to stop escalating when the American bourgeoisie forcibly stop Trump from escalating.
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from my admittedly limited conversations with irl Chinese people I think they have been ready to rumble for a few years now, I think America is severely underestimating their will and drive to avenge past humiliations. I keep thinking about this event that happened a couple years ago:
The incident happened Saturday at Lujiang Middle School in Anhui province, some 400km west of Shanghai. A video clip posted on social media shows a student walking onto the stage, taking a microphone from a professor and shouting, “He only has money in his eyes, thinks learning is just for money, worships the West and panders to overseas powers.”
“For what purpose do we study hard? It’s for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!” he added, echoing a phrase popularized by President Xi Jinping. “Do not cross-breed with Americans!” the student also said.
Libs will say Xi is just brainwashing the children or whatever but we know better. They know their own history, and these really want this next fight to show the world just how far they've come.
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Thinking about the opening to the blowback ep in the Korea season where the Americans are just crushing turkey dinner at Thanksgiving and the hardened PLA fighters are hiding in the hills with a small bag of oats and sneakers on in subzero weather.
That revolutionary spirit is still very much alive. We would get our asses handed to us just by virtue of the fact that they own the means of production even if we were equally treat brained. But Trump is also dramatically underestimating the human will to sacrifice for a noble cause, which this very much is. They dont only have the means they also have solidarity, and a state that would be willing and incentivized to act with tools like price controls or direct subsidies. US doesn't stand a chance.
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don't cross-breed with Americans
hmmm
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I saw a shirt with a peace hand signal in a shenzhen shopping mall with the text "double peace love fingertip" this stuff doesn't necessarily translate 1:1
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It can. Look at what he crumpled into when the took his Twitter away.
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That's because without twitter, he wasnt able to scream at people as easily.
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