What a fucked up world where we are cheering on China. Fucking trump.
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Predictable dictator is better than batshit crazy dictator.
Xi is more than happy to have a scapegoat for his economic troubles so the people and the powerful don't hang him. Trump sometimes wants to speed run into the hanging and then realizes he really can't piss off his own power base if he wants to keep his neck.
They both suck.
And now:
Trump clarifies some of the tariffs were actually 245% for some unknown reason
Big flex from China. I'm waiting for a country to call trump's bluff by putting an export tax on their own goods sent to the USA.
Canada should have done this on everything. If the Americans can afford the tariff then there is room for us to charge more. Not really but yeah should do it.
Didn't this happen last time? Less dramatically, but still.
He puts in a bunch of tariffs. China reciprocates. The market is thrown into chaos. He shouts and screams. China ignores him. He backtracks. China ends the tariffs but doesn't do anything to try and appease him. He claims it's a victory. His fluffers say the tariffs were just to bring China to the table, which justifies the hit to the market, despite the fact China didn't come to the table and President Pigshit didn't articulate what China could actually give him to end the tariffs.
Yes, but this time he also decided to tariff the whole world.
Wish somebody told him he didn't have the cards.
The cards are made in China
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Trump never dropped tariffs on China, did he?
No they didn't. This is in reference to the announced exceptions for electronics like phones, which is a pretty big category. That's effectively dropping tariffs on a big chunk. That announcement was then unannounced by trump but who knows. The general perception is that trump wants tariffs but will fold when the economy catches fire and wants China to make a big deal with him so he can claim victory.
His fanboys will praise his indecisiveness and claim it a victory regardless of the outcome
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Trump keeps begging for China deal while bragging about phone calls kissing his ass. No foreign meetings. No envoy sent to China.
China limits US studio film releases
Bessent says Tariffs are no joke. China must make a deal.
Chinese airlines refuse Boeing+parts deliveries (reported as "China orders", but leopards were not going to make US aerospace affordable at 125% tariffs.
That is The Art of the Deal. But the Chinese version.
🤔 it's almost like tarrifs were a bad idea.
All the more reason for MAGAs to hate China - they were MEAN to Daddy!
Despite that, Fox News will continue stacking his invisible laurels. Doesn't matter if his policy does anything. All that matters is that his followers are convinced that the policies are doing something.