Posted on 02/04/2025 8:53:43 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping were supposed to speak today about the tariffs sent by the former. Now, that’s not happening. The White House confirmed this change after China sued the US at the World Trade Organization (WTO). White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had announced earlier that a call between Trump and Xi was being scheduled and would happen “very soon.” Today’s developments put that on ice, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The fallout started when the US hit China with 10% tariffs early Tuesday morning. The reaction was fast and brutal. Beijing struck back with its own set of retaliatory moves. Chinese officials announced tariffs targeting key American exports and slapped new restrictions on the export of critical minerals—materials the US tech and defense sectors need badly. Beijing also threw an antitrust case at Google and placed sanctions on Nvidia’s chips. Then the lawsuit came, which has definitely escalated tensions between the two largest economies. “China has filed a case against the US tariff measures under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism,” its commerce ministry said.
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For once, we finally agree on something.
China is an enemy.
WINNING!
We have a five+ year score to settle.
Through translators it went this way:
And you can’t get in my treehouse.
Oh? Try borrowing my new bike. Forget it.
Winning.
WTO.....pfffttttt!
Excellent video. :)
Re capitalization formation and industrialization in and for the United States.
Jobs for United States citizens. 🎯
China is teetering on the edge of economic collapse.
They will lose a trade war.
Graft, corruption, nepotism beyond anything we have seen here - the CCP is about to be eaten alive by their own serfs.
bad move China
the wall, been on it 3 times in different locations
Tienemen Square, Forbiden City? Been there.
Burying concubines alive. GFY
Shark fin soup - mediocre
Stinky Tofu - total shit
You’re brutish and harsh an oppressive and souless.
You put brown sauce on river bank weeds and sell it as a delicacy.
You purged your intellectuals and instead have bred a corp of reverse engineers from stolen intellectual property.
Just like the Panamanian Economic War, the Venezuelan Economic War, the Salvadoran Economic War, the Mexican Economic War, the Canadian Economic War., etc., etc.
Man, I’d like to play poker with some of you guys.
Xi is in trouble within the CCCP. He might get fired over this.
American negotiators scrambled Monday to delay imposing similar trade penalties on Mexico and Canada
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they caved
What a joke! China repeatedly thumbs its nose at the WTO, violating rules set down by the WTO. Now they want to make a case before the WTO?? WHAT A JOKE!!!
9 older people at my mom’s church died of Covid when it first came out. 9 of her friends. China can suckee sucky long time
Poo bear is the stoic head of State. He’s like Zoolander.
Don’t think he has tons to say. He’s the voice of the borg.
He’s artificial.
Well, he’s likely to be replaced.
I think I’m sensing a pattern.
“Man, I’d like to play poker with some of you guys.”
Wrong. All of them need us more than we need them. They will all lose.
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