Posted on 04/07/2025 5:41:18 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Trump is swinging the BIG UGLY hammer against the panda and the Beijing dragon behind it.
President Trump (Via Truth Social) – “Yesterday, China issued Retaliatory Tariffs of 34%, on top of their already record setting Tariffs, Non-Monetary Tariffs, Illegal Subsidization of companies, and massive long term Currency Manipulation, despite my warning that any country that Retaliates against the U.S. by issuing additional Tariffs, above and beyond their already existing long term Tariff abuse of our Nation, will be immediately met with new and substantially higher Tariffs, over and above those initially set.
Therefore, if China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th. Additionally, all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with us will be terminated! Negotiations with other countries, which have also requested meetings, will begin taking place immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” [LINK]
It must also be noted, this global reset and tariff system is visibly the fracture point between the Tech Bros and MAGA economic nationalists. Elon Musk and Bill Ackman are now directly in opposition to President Trump and the global trade reset.
You know that ‘cleaving’ I was talking about? The issue of the Tech Bros -vs- MAGA? Well, tariffs are the trigger.
Tech Bros do not know borders. Their industry and business sector are borderless. Tariffs are bold economic lines around a border.
Tariffs are where the interests of the Tech Bros financially diverge from MAGA. The globalists and multinational corps who know this, specifically the EU team, will exploit this fracture point. They will target U.S. Tech industry in their tariff avoidance strategy to create division. This is what EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is talking about when she says “countermeasures”. Watch for it.
I wish we had a President who knew how to win.
End sarcasm.
Yo China - FAFO!
We’re finally starting to make China nervous (!) — and that’s no small feat, considering they’re part of the IRAN-RUSSIA-NORTH KOREA-CHINA axis. It’s about time we got tough with the real tough guys. Now that’s a challenge worth rising to.
President Trump is absolutely right to apply maximum pressure on China. Let’s be honest — much of what they claim to have “invented” has been either stolen from U.S. and EU innovation or reverse-engineered with little regard for intellectual property.
At the same time, I truly hope the U.S. and its allies move toward eliminating all tariffs between themselves. A unified front, based on trust and open trade, is the strongest way to counter global authoritarianism.
Oh no, what will Walmart sell?
Thank you for your attention to this matter....is Very funny.
lol
100% The time has come to throw down on China.
They have been waging full-scale economic war against the US for 20+ years. It’s time to fight back.
They CANNOT WIN a trade war against us. No way. Their economy is already on the ropes. We don’t sell enough to them for them to hurt us. We can CRIPPLE them if we stop buying their crap.
BRING IT, XI! We have a fighter, who knows your weakness.
The last time DJT backed China into a corner like this, the world was coincidentally introduced to covid a week later.
possibly relevant factoid... 70% of the world’s sex toys are made in China...
did walmart tell china they will have to eat the tariff?
That’s true. But covid was a means to an end for them, and that end was to help the Democrats steal the election. They’re going to have to come up with something else this time.
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