Posted on 04/16/2025 4:02:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
"Trump is a crazy man," says Lionel Xu, who is surrounded by his company's mosquito repellent kits – many were once best sellers in Walmart stores in the United States.
Now those products are sitting in boxes in a warehouse in China and will remain there unless President Donald Trump lifts his 145% tariffs on all Chinese goods bound for the US.
"This is so hard for us," he adds.
Around half of all products made by his company Sorbo Technology are sold to the US.
It is a small company by Chinese standards and has around 400 workers in Zhejiang province. But they are not alone in feeling the pain of this economic war.
"We are worried. What if Trump doesn't change his mind? That will be a dangerous thing for our factory," says Mr Xu.
Nearby, Amy is helping to sell ice cream makers at her booth for the Guangdong Sailing Trade Company. Her key buyers, including Walmart, are also in the US.
"We have stopped production already," she says. "All the products are in the warehouse."
Amy hopes her ice cream makers will head in a new direction.
"We hope to open the new European market. Maybe Saudi Arabia - and of course Russia," she adds.
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He should ask his elected representatives to negotiate. Oops, no elected representatives.
He stole that product from an American entrepreneur who researched it and created the market for it.
Hey, BBC...
Where’s the pity party for the thousands of NYS dairy farmers who’ve gone under thanks, at least in part, to Canada’s tariffs on dairy?!
Embrace the suck, Hop Sing.
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Literally don’t care, his government used tariffs and manipulated their currency to steal those businesses away from America. China has been running an economic shadow war on the US for years.
They deserve literally no sympathy and no economic mercy.
Chinese businesses are not our problem.
I’ve said it before - and yes I know some disagree with me. This is sad. I don’t enjoy seeing common people in China suffer (lose jobs, go bankrupt, etc) because of the decoupling from China. Most people there are decent folks and I have no ill will against them.
The above being said, our first priorities MUST be on taking care of OUR people and looking after OUR national security. That means we need to restore our manufacturing base and we need to put tens of millions of our people back to work in jobs that will afford them solid middle class lifestyles.
Its really that simple.
remember all the sob stories about americans losing their manufacturing jobs to china, and the stories about american inventors who’s intellectual property was stolen by china? Neither do I.
The MSM are domestic enemies.
He can learn to code...
remember when China killed millions of people around the world when their gain of function virus ‘escaped’ from their lab?
I don’t disagree with you on the big picture. I just separate the predatory, dictatorial, cheating, stealing, CCP from the average people in China. The latter are stuck living under the tyranny of the CCP and have no choice. The CCP came to power over 75 years ago and almost nobody currently in China had anything to do with it. Its unfortunate but we will have to hurt innocent people in China in order to take care of our own people and to halt the expansionist ambitions of the CCP.
To Mr. Xu, the Moron.
It’s *Your* guy that is causing the problem!
There is no path to the end of the CCP where the people of China are not impacted, that is a reality that one must face in life, with the CCP it is either America or us. The “innocent people” of China are perfectly happy to see the CCP cheat on the national stage as long as it benefits them. The people as a whole are not as innocent as you are presenting them.
The protestors in the street trying to bring about change I have sympathy for, the small business / big business people, the workers happy with how China is governed, who benefit from our being deceived, I have none.
May this be the first in the Domino Effect. Xi might win a few battles up front but he can't hold off billions of Chicoms for long.
sell it to the UK
I just made this comment on another thread but it is applicable here as well:
I don’t see any way out of this for China except the collapse of their economy, the Xi government—and maybe even a reformation of the CCP itself.
This isn’t just a case of China “taking advantage” of the West. Their entire economy has been built on theft and dishonesty. Cut off the IP theft, forced tech transfers, and access to U.S. capital—and their model collapses.
That’s why Xi hasn’t responded positively to Trump’s tariffs. He knows Trump isn’t bargaining for fairer trade terms—he’s targeting the foundation of China’s economic power. Xi’s system doesn’t survive under fair trade rules. It only thrives on exploitation—and that’s what Trump is ending.
The real question now is: how will Xi and the CCP respond? Is there any reformist force left within the Party that could shift China back toward Deng’s path of market-oriented pragmatism? Or has Xi’s centralization made that impossible?
Mr Yung was wounded during an airplane hijacking when FBI agents stormed the plane. The 2 hijackers and a passenger were killed .
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 July 5th 1972.
Dear Mr Xu. The USA is less than 5% of the world’s population yet you claim it is 50% of your sales. Seems like you need to do a better job of marketing to the rest of the planet.
I loved that show.
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