Posted on 04/13/2025 9:18:29 PM PDT by dennisw
China has been secretly halting exports of major U.S. commodities in a stealthy attempt to undermine Donald Trump's trade war and punish Americans.
While Beijing has matched Trump's 125 percent tariff with one of its own against US-imported goods, they have also been using nontariff barriers to hit the president's supporters the hardest, Politico reported.
Over the past four months, China has halted or significantly curtailed direct key U.S. agriculture and energy exports.
Many of these exports include U.S. farm goods, such beef, poultry and liquified natural gas.
Those resources are largely produced in red states whose voters are far more likely to be Trump supporters, with China likely calculating that any pain people there feel could be used to undermine the president himself.
'A tariff, you can just pay it, and things just get more costly,' said Ben Lilliston, director of rural strategies and climate change at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. 'But this is a full restriction on your ability to send product to that country.'
China declined to renew export licenses for hundreds of meatpacking plants, claiming the products are genetically modified or unsanitary.
The escalating trade war reached a fever pitch last week when the president boosted the tariffs on China to a whopping 125 percent.
Trump did grant some relief by sparring iPhones, laptops and other electronics from his brutal tariffs, with the majority of those gadgets made in the communist nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
'You don't want to see health and safety turned into political bargaining,' said Darci Vetter, who was chief agricultural negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration. 'It turns carefully considered barriers based on science into a political issue.'
'This is what China does — trade action masquerading as legit public policy based on science,' said Marc Busch, who has advised both USTR and the Commerce Department on technical trade barriers.
The method gives Beijing 'two bangs for the buck — plausible deniability and lethality,' Busch added.
'These nontariff measures allow China to maintain that veneer of, "We're just following the rules — we have legitimate reasons to do these things,"' said Greta Peisch, former general counsel of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. 'It's part of China's narrative, and it should be of concern.'
The ultimate goal should be zero trade with China, a mortal enemy.
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China owns Smithfield Foods, the biggest pork producer in the world.
Stop doing business with Communists who hate America, and who lie, cheat, and steal IP.
***K China.
Also there’s that slave labor, religious persecution, and killing political opponents.
CRUSH those shitstains the same way Reagan crushed the Soviet Union.
oh, and also, they killed millions of people with an engineered bat virus. There’s that.
"China's WH Group, formerly known as Shuanghui International, purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.7 billion. The deal was announced on May 29, 2013, and approved by U.S. regulators on September 6, 2013. It marked the largest Chinese acquisition of a U.S. company to date and included Smithfield's 146,000 acres of farmland."
Bought while the Kenyan (traitor) was president and in the same era that China was bribing Joe Biden and Hunter Biden....... Below is via Perplexity AI.
I didn’t know we got beef or chicken from China.
Thanks, but no thanks. I don’t want their polluted, contaminated poison.
If we struck first.
Just sayin'.
“I didn’t know we got beef or chicken from China.”
No, China is getting them from us, but they’ve stopping importing them.
Food as a weapon. Health care as a weapon.
Never forget that COVID19 was/is a bioweapon.
“Sizzle, Pork, and Mmmmmmm...”
Aided and abetted by the Biden administration’s shameful abandonment of Afghanistan and its mineral reserves.
Nor that Fentanyl is a chemical weapon.
DEI, racism and queer agenda would make good psychological weapons. We should deport them back to China too.
Which reminds me, why do we not hear of any Chinese fentanyl overdoses? It’s a mystery.
Chinee can go directly to hell. Period. It will never play straight. My dad was a European who grew up in China and he knows how they play. Dirty.
Yep.
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