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Posted on 05/12/2025 8:13:27 AM PDT by appeal2
The AP calls it a “promising tariff reduction deal.” CNN calls it “a cooling of tensions.” I call it what it is: a 90-day white-flag window before China gets crushed.
Forget the polite headlines. This isn’t a trade agreement—it’s an ultimatum. And if Xi Jinping doesn’t play it right, he won’t just lose Taiwan or the West. He might lose everything—including his grip on power.
This Deal Isn’t About Soybeans. It’s About Sovereignty...
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Businesses have already hiked their prices from the last tariff numbers and they aren’t about to lower them.
No link to story, just a email harvester
According to Substack, a very new blog. This particular story was posted to it at 1110 AM today, while the post to FR was about an hour later, at 1113 AM.
No links to references. Just an appeal to "subscribe" to a substack about a week old.
Palm Beach Player with Johnny DepthYou'll observe the web page has Russian on it, about its art of seduction and such...."Why You Need to Listen Now: Because your last date left you confused — and your next one doesn't have toBecause no one ever told you the rules of the game you're stuck inBecause every man needs a voice in his corner that actually gets it You don't need therapy. You need Johnny Depth!"
Look down a bit for the tiny “No thanks.” Click that and you get to the story.
So many sites now put up intrusive pages with some small, obscure thing to find and click to get past it.
Oh, you do NOT need to provide your email address to get past it, either. Just click “No thanks.”
1. Fentanyl: No More Quiet Poison
The number of Americans dead from fentanyl now eclipses entire wars. And where do the precursor chemicals come from? Beijing’s export industrial base.
The message to Xi was clear:
“Cut the fentanyl, or we cut the trade.”
For the first time, China acknowledged some level of accountability—because they weren’t given a choice. When a nation exports poison, it forfeits negotiation power.
2. Intellectual Property: The Looting Must End
China hasn’t competed. It’s copied. For three decades, the U.S. has watched as entire industries—solar, steel, semiconductors—were siphoned off and replicated.
This deal doesn’t paper over it—it pressures it. The theft ends, or the tariffs return with a vengeance. This isn’t just economic policy—it’s reparations, Trump-style.
3. Taiwan: The Untouchable
While the press talks about tariffs, the real red line is Taiwan. Not in the agreement text—but the subtext is glowing:
“Touch Taiwan, and we shut your economy down from every port to every payment processor.”
4. Cut the Cables, Stop the Hacks
We all know every major U.S. institution has been hacked by China. It’s not a bug—it’s a feature of their foreign policy.
This trade agreement? It’s a quiet declaration:
“End the hacking. Or we start shutting doors.”
5. And Then There’s Russia
China’s shadow backing of Putin’s war has kept Russia’s engines humming. If Xi pulls the plug on that “strategic partnership,” the war ends in months.
That pressure is in this deal. It’s just dressed in diplomatic silence.
6. Trump Already Size-Checked Xi—At Mar-a-Lago
Trump invited Xi to Mar-a-Lago during his first term. In the middle of dinner, he excuses himself, launches a missile strike on Syria, then returns for dessert.
Xi’s response? Nothing.
That dinner told Trump everything:
- Xi’s a strategist—but not a gambler
- He’ll bluff—but won’t act if the cost is real
- And when push comes to shove, he folds before the tiramisu
That strike was Trump’s way of saying: “I can make moves while you’re still chewing.”
Epilogue: The Real Reckoning
Xi is playing defense on every front—economy crumbling, population shrinking, factories empty, allies unstable. Now he’s facing the impossible choice:
- Bend to Trump
- Or break under the weight of 30 years of unchecked ambition
And the truth is, he might already be lost.
Not even that tofu dreg AI braintrust at Deep Seek can model a way out of this mess.
Because you can’t algorithm your way out of decay, paranoia, and a global alliance that finally sees you for what you are.
And Still, the Media Doesn’t Get It
AP talks tariffs. CNN talks “cooling rhetoric.”
They call this news? It’s stenography with punctuation.
They missed the story because they don’t want to see it. Because the real story is too powerful, too strategic, and too Trump.
Final Thought: The Real White Flag
This wasn’t a deal. This was a staged surrender—delivered through a handshake.
Xi blinked. And in that moment, Trump saw the true potential for peace—or total economic annihilation.
And Xi knows it.
That’s why this time, the white flag didn’t come from Washington.
I pray this turns out to be accurate.
This article is basically a made up pile of bs. Are you “Johnny Depth”? Why else would you post it?
Provided a nice pastry cart for what otherwise would have been a typical lunch.
Then post the link behind it!
It wasn’t my post. I’m just instructing you what to look for. Just go look for the “No thanks” and stop bitching at me. I’m trying to help you.
Take a step back, Poo ‘xi’ has lost a step and in ccp land that means he’s done.
The ToFo cool aid has reached its killing level. The reality of the gross lies about well EVERYTHING is crashing over him and the ccp in real time. The scale has now tipped over and the long agonizing ride to the bottom and the eventual splash of collateral damage will be a slow motion horror show.
The sharp uncoordinated military actions by local and regional low and mid level ccp peoples army members and government bureaucrats against the populace will spark more and more unrest.
Everyone will have began to try and safe guard years of stolen gains from graft and out right theft.
Somewhere at the most inopportune moment a grubby little man will trip and the bag he’s carrying full of money will spill out on the floor of a bus, train station or an airport and the spark. A “phone video” will become super viral being shared by an almost sentient wave. Even the gate keepers will push it past the google created supposed great internet wall of chain.
Bkmk
<>Trump saw the true potential for peace—or total economic annihilation.<>
“Or total economic annihilation.”
That should be the goal.
I hope Trump does unto China that which Reagan/Bush41 did unto the Soviet Union.
Destroy the CCP without firing a shot.
Turn Sun Tzu on the commie Chinks.
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