Posted on 04/17/2025 8:14:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
China tried to wreck our economy with a biological weapon.
Didn’t work.
Now it is Trump’s turn.
Tariffs will decimate their economy possibly leading to a revolution.
suck it XI.
Panama will be a huge loss of face for China and diminishes its posture as a military power capable of standing up to the US. In addition to tariffs, Trump is forcing China to defend its incursions into the Americas. Somethjng they can’t do. He’s pantsing them from every angle.
China’s economic and political well being depends on free and favored access to American markets. Both Xi and Trump understand this fact. As layoffs and unemployment start to sting badly within china, Xi will become belicose with his big military. Doubt Trump will blink but the MSM will go crazy.
The MSM is already crazy. Has been since they sold their souls to the left.
I’ve seen a lot of woe is China articles. Much more than the usual weekly propaganda.
China’s support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should be a factor in tariff policy.
Been telling people this.
Isn’t fentanyl an act of war?
I don’t believe Xi did it on his own I think Fuaci the Democrats of America led the way.
Yeah I know I misspelled Fauci.
A few days ago, I was attacked for saying basically the same thing. One of my oldest and best friends owns a Customs Brokerage. His business has been devastated, but he said that China was going to be in much more trouble than the USA. He felt that they would come crawling back to the table soon. And the wisdom of President Trump’s actions would start to become obvious despite the economic turmoil that it is currently causing his business.
Is China forcing Americans to use fentanyl ?
How is it that you’re ALWAYS on the fkd up side ?!
Why are you always on the anti-U.S. globalist side?
Totally get it.
Not helping my business either as handle E-waste and End of Life assets, which had been shipped to China.
Now the tariffs have increased our export fees and customers are balking at the price for recycle.
We are telling them “Keep it for now and when the tariffs come off, let’s deal with this then”
Thing is: China is FUBAR and they will say “Uncle” pretty soon.
Their banking situation is so unstable this may tip it over.
Their working population is beginning to age out.
We are their largest customer
The yuan is losing value faster than a Confederate dollar.
The US is the world reserve for currency.
Let’s FAFO
Xi screwed up by adopting a more threatening/confrontational posture. His predecessors were smart enough to lay low while China’s economy and especially its manufacturing sector grew and grew. This has made it far easier for President Trump to come to office in the first place and to completely change our trade and foreign policy stance to the CCP once he got into office.
I wonder if our FReepers who track maritime traffic have noticed any significant beginnings of Chinese cargo loaded container ships turning back to China or pulling into port somewhere short of American destination ports.
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