Posted on 04/07/2025 7:39:01 PM PDT by Mariner
BEIJING (AP) — China threatened Tuesday to take countermeasures against the United States "to safeguard its own rights and interests” in response to President Donald Trump’s threat of an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports.
The Commerce Ministry statement said the U.S.‘s imposition of “so-called ‘reciprocal tariffs’” on China is “completely groundless and is a typical unilateral bullying practice.”
China has taken retaliatory tariffs and the ministry hinted more many be coming.
“The countermeasures China has taken are aimed at safeguarding its sovereignty, security and development interests, and maintaining the normal international trade order. They are completely legitimate,” the ministry said. “The U.S. threat to escalate tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake and once again exposes the blackmailing nature of the US. China will never accept this. If the US insists on its own way, China will fight to the end.”
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Think, what do they provide that we cannot get elsewhere?
That they cry saying this is a bullying tactic, reveals the are in the inferior position
Beach slap em next
China is betting they can wait us out. They have enough foreign reserves, gold and bonds to do so. We shall see.
What do they call the 69 position in China?
Typical commie bluster when they don’t have anything else. This is a desperate attempt at saving face at home. I feel not one bit of sympathy for any company that loses its IP or property in China.
China is going to collapse under the tariffs and they know it.
Wait us out? We can make the stuff ourselves.
Negotiations have a limit. If the Chicoms strut around too much then treat them like the pirates they are.
“I hope I shall never again be sent to Algiers with tribute, unless I am authorized to deliver it from the mouth of our cannon.” Message from naval commander in the 1800s.
——Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates by Brian Kilmeade.
Rots O Ruck.
Their debt situation is worse than ours on a debt to GDP ratio. They are the brokest of the broke.
“ Think, what do they provide that we cannot get elsewhere?”
All they provide is slave labor or as close as it gets to that.
This would be better done after we completely onshored medicines.
Threats to slap tariffs on products made by Chinese peasants on one-year labor contracts working for joint ventures mandated by Chinese law are absurd.
Can’t we get meds from India?
“Threats to slap tariffs on products made by Chinese peasants on one-year labor contracts working for joint ventures mandated by Chinese law are absurd.”
Are you saying our tariffs are absurd?
The tariff makes the onshoring possible. Thus your comment makes no sense.
The transition sounds pharmacologically dangerous to ‘mericans.
The beauty is in the crises to hurry up production here. I like the way the tariff gives us no choice.
Looking more and more that we need to start ramping up production of what we used to get cheaper from China.
They can wait out the middle management in the Senate
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