Posted on 04/07/2025 7:11:18 PM PDT by DallasBiff
BEIJING, April 7 (Reuters) - Threats and pressure are not the right way to deal with China, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday after describing U.S. President Donald Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" as bullying. The tariffs are "typical unilateralism and protectionism, and economic bullying", spokesperson Lin Jian told a regular press conference. He said that U.S. tariffs in the name of reciprocity only served its own interest at the expense of other countries.
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Bullying?
Taiwan has joined the chat
But it's okay for the chinese to threaten and bully (e.g. hong kong), etc.
Sticks and stones.
Bullying is China coming here buying up farms and other property, sending spies to the U.S. to steal our secrets and infiltrate our schools and government agencies, deliberately creating and leaking a virus to destroy the world’s economy, and threatening other countries in attempts to control them. When has the U.S. ever done any of those things to China?
That dude is clueless...
trade deficits <-> budget deficits <-> too much vote buying
bigger payrolls -> smaller welfare rolls-> long-term US stability
Even if China was 100% (or even 90%) legally innocent does not excuse it from the need for reform.
Our problem is China’s problem too.
Rough international and domestic finance is a must for the USA (and most other countries). The ‘can’ can’t politically or economically be kicked much further down the road.
The Congress is nearly completely dysfunctional.
God bless the work of our ‘bully’!
Bullying? Did China just hire Karmelo Anthony’s lawyer to be their spokesman?
Rough international and domestic financial balance is a must for the USA...
...said the fascist totalitarians.
This is rich.
The man and country about to ‘fall off the [economic and political] cliff’ need to act unilaterally.
“The Congress is nearly completely dysfunctional.”
Buncha [Rich] lazy b@st@rds they are.
Delegate every thing to others.
Refuse to do their job, but want to keep the job.
China is definitely suffering. If that’s what Trump wanted to achieve, he achieved it.
Like any leftist, it’s about language control.
Remember blacks can’t be racist, and the CCP is never a bully.
Bullying is killing 1 Million Americans.😡😡
It’s not bullying. They are free to not sell us anything.
First they laugh at you, then they call you Hitler, then they declare war on you, then they shut up and do as they are told.
It would be a shame if there was a large federal tax on all foreign owned land for people that are from countries with tariffs over 100%.
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