Posted on 03/03/2025 3:43:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
When President Trump threatened tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China in January, saying those countries needed to do more to stop the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States, Canadian and Mexican officials raced to Washington, bearing charts and videos detailing their efforts to toughen their borders.
Canada created a “fentanyl czar” and committed fresh resources to combating organized crime, while Mexico dispatched troops to the border and delivered cartel operatives into U.S. custody. As a result, Mr. Trump paused tariffs on America’s North American neighbors for 30 days.
China never made these kinds of overtures and, in Mr. Trump’s view, did not take any big moves to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States. So on Feb. 4, Mr. Trump moved forward with imposing a 10 percent tariff on all Chinese imports. Last week, the president said that on March 4 he would add another 10 percent on top of all existing Chinese tariffs.
Mr. Trump is moving quickly to transform the U.S.-China trade relationship. The Chinese are moving much more cautiously and deliberately as they try to assess Mr. Trump and determine what it is he actually wants from China. Some of Mr. Trump’s advisers, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have held calls with their Chinese counterparts. But a call between Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has failed to materialize.
The situation underscores the quandary for foreign leaders in dealing with a president as unpredictable and unconventional as Mr. Trump, who is making substantial changes to trade terms with little advance notice or preparation.
The Chinese do not want to initiate a conversation because they do not want to be seen as pleading, and are wary of offering concessions before they understand the parameters of the...
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He spelled it out. Stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal aliens. Evidently China doesn't want to stop. FAFO.
the slimes wasn’t making that statement with any seriousness so it didn’t deserve a serious reply.
But you are correct :)
At this rate the cheapo off brand TVs will cost you more than LG and Samsung.
"Mr. Trump, who is making substantial changes to trade terms with little advance notice or preparation."
Thanks to the Alt Left voter fraud machine he had 4 years to think about, and prepare, for this.
RE: After Beijing Fails to Come Running
Should read instead — Beijing refuses to budge.
What are the chances that they will let that happen? It means that they won’t sell. China will likely be forced to eat some or all of the tariffs.
China is a tapeworm. Their trade policy is simple, eat out the US’s substance. Time to decouple with China. The US can’t afford to import any critical products from China. Covid revealed that US was overly dependent on Chinese medical supplies, and pharmaceuticals.
“ Evidently China doesn’t want to stop. FAFO. ”
No, they don’t.
It’s an illegitimate totalitarian regime.
We (US and other major economies) pumped so much money in to their country and Putin (and Clinton) sold and gave them so much military technology that they think they somehow did it all and have become the most powerful nation on earth, which in their master race ideology is only right.
But all they ever did was sell their people for the closest thing to slave labor there is now.
They are Marxist to the core and think they are the oppressed victims and thus anything they do is correct and pay back.
Ana and Alexandra. A couple lesbian lovers?
“ China is a tapeworm.”
That is a perfect way to put it!
Yes, decouple.
Trump is giving them a lot more opportunity than they deserve.
According to plan. China deems it better this wsy: their right to choose.
I may be heckled for saying this, but outside of American relations, China is not a country we should enthusiastically support - with anti-Christian persecution and the use of prison labor.
I never saw a Mr Biden but there were a lot of references to Mr Trump. Mr Sulzberger, do you want to be taken seriously?
Less television for the American citizens is probably a good thing.
I am more worried about China than Russia. Russia has expended most of their conventional weapons in Ukraine, China seems to be more aggressive toward its Pacific neighbors.
China is the real enemy. Russia is not. The globalists want Russia’s natural resources.
“Less television for the American citizens is probably a good thing.”
65” 4K TVs are the most effective brainwashing device ever invented. Elvis had it right when he shot his TV. Allegedly when Robert Goulet was singing.
Cut China off completely. Eliminate taxes. Stop funding our demise. We’ll be fine.
Yes I agree. They have stolen US technology.
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