Trump has China boxed in. It will only get worse for Chinese manufacturing. The Trump tariff war with China forces most of the rest of the world to begin implementing anti dumping trade policies against China.

Vanity ^ | 4/9/25 | Vanity

[Political Junkie Too]

What question did you ask Grok to get this response?

-PJ

[rodguy911]

What are the odds of any of that happening? And, if it does it will be short term. The chicoms remind me of the dirty dems.If they can’t cheat they don’t exist.

[rodguy911]

Plus, we “just” discovered a massive lithium deposit. Before this, China was the major source of critical lithium. My bet is that the good guys knew about the lithium for a long time, but “just now” announced it.

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Good catch,I have always wondered since hearing about all the rare earth in NC just how "rare" it actually is.Seems almost every country there is has some "rare" earth.Suggesting it may not be as "rare" as we thought it was,just hard to mine.

[rodguy911]

We should always remember that communism only exists with someone to pay for it using capitalism.In other words capitalism pays the bills for communism.

[kabar]

Decoupling will be messy. The Chinese have “captured” many prominent people in politics, business, academia, entertainment, media, etc. Trump will face domestic opposition as well as the Chinese using whatever leverage they have to make this as painful as possible.

This tariff reciprocity push by Trump has always been primarily about China. Trump must stay the course. My main concern is that if China’s economy crumbles, they will lash out militarily, which changes the dynamic.

If Trump is successful, it will be long term. It takes years to change supply chains. We will need the assistance of our allies to make the transition. Will the EU side with China? The problem for China is who can replace the US as a market? The answer now is no one. We are the world’s largest consumer market, which is why we run an annual trade deficit with the rest of the world of over a trillion dollars.

[kabar]

In 2024, US goods and services exports reached $3.192 trillion, while imports totaled $4.110 trillion, resulting in a goods and services deficit of $918.4 billion.

[poconopundit]

Thanks for this story, hardspunned. Very timely.

You can bet that Germany doesn't like Chinese electric cars flooding the market where Volvo, Mercedes Benz, and other vehicles rein.

But blocking Chinese electric cars is reluctantly conflicting with the European fashion of climate change activism -- which is a sham anyway and is really an effort to counter American dominance in global commerce and wealth.

Note: A found a remarkable table: World's Realtime Billionaires that lists global billionaires by wealth, country, industry, etc. — from Elon Musk down.

The table shows America's dominance in spades at the highest levels in global enterprises.

[poconopundit]

[Manufacturing out own pharmaceuticals] was going to be Trump’s next move before the ‘20 coup.

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Absolutely, hardspunned. And China may have anticipated Trump’s move, hence the Wuhan Labs “leak” of Covid to spread the global virus. Which enabled the Dems to flood the zone with illegal mail-in ballots.

[Liz]

China may have anticipated Trump’s move before Biden’s 2020 steal......making our own pharmaceuticals........hence the Wuhan Labs “leak” of Covid to spread the global virus.
Which enabled the Dems to flood the zone with illegal mail-in ballots.

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No doubt.