Trump threatens China with tariffs on another $300B of goods

President Trump on Thursday threatened China Opens a New Window. with possible tariffs on “at least” another $300 billion worth of goods, escalating tensions in the trade war Opens a New Window. between the two countries as negotiations drag on.

Trump, before heading to France for D-Day commemorations, told reporters that “a lot of interesting things are happening” during talks with China, but did not provide further details. The countries have been stuck at a trade standoff which escalated last month when Trump increased tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports to 25 percent.

“Our talks with China, a lot of interesting things are happening. We’ll see what happens... I could go up another at least $300 billion and I’ll do that at the right time,” Trump said before boarding Air Force One, according to Reuters Opens a New Window. .

Trump did not specify which Chinese goods would be affected but said he believed China is opening to brokering a deal that would squash the trade dispute. He also mentioned Mexico, following a threat to impose a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican goods starting Monday if the neighboring countries do not find a solution to the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs into the U.S.

“I think China wants to make a deal and I think Mexico wants to make a deal badly,” Trump said.

> traffic with China has not slowed down in the least...both ways.

Hasn’t reached the proper pain point yet. Rest assured that supply chain planning is proceeding at a furious pace on both sides of the Pacific. We are at about the 1938 relationship with the Japanese.

The Chinese communist are truly evil totalitarians

Thank goodness our great and wonderful president Donald J Trump is finally stop licking their boots for their money and taking on these evil bastards for what they are

These evil bastard’s take young political prisoners slice them open steal their organs and then throw their bodies in the trash

These evil bastards throw millions of people into gulags and force them to do slave labor that make the Nazis look like petunia up salesman

These evil bastards will run over millions of people to build a dam a chemical plant and employees and millions of people and lie about it just like the Russian communist did at Chernobyl except 100 times worse and you’ll never hear about it

Just look at how they can completely scrubbed all the references to Tiananmen Square which was a pathetic little a tab for the young people to try to get some kind of freedoms

Far too many American corporations are willing to overlook all of this just to make the dollars they can be made from the cheap slave labor over there

It is time to put a tremendous pressure on these evil bastards and make them succumb

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