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The People's Daily - the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China - just published an editorial on Trump's tariffs and their likely impact on China
Arnaud Bertrand ^ | 4/6/25 | The Chicoms’ Peoples Daily

Posted on 04/06/2025 7:17:56 PM PDT by hardspunned

Quick summary of the main points 👇

1) The tariffs were expected and planned for

They write that "although international markets generally consider the US tariff abuse to be beyond expectations, the CPC Central Committee has anticipated this new round of US economic and trade suppression against China, fully estimated its potential impact, and prepared adequate response plans with sufficient lead time and margin."

They add that "last year's Central Economic Work Conference made comprehensive arrangements for responding to the new round of US containment and suppression against China."

2) Impact will be limited - "the sky won't fall"

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Just thought you might like to hear what whistling past the graveyard sounds like in Chinese.
1 posted on 04/06/2025 7:17:56 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

They will never tell the people the truth because the truth will be used against them and then they will have to kill you


2 posted on 04/06/2025 7:28:21 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: hardspunned

Wanna see a mandarin duck? Throw a tariff at him.


3 posted on 04/06/2025 7:29:05 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: hardspunned

Nice thing about being a totalitarian country is a leader can sprew BS and no one is going to disagree, object or point out flaws in logic.


4 posted on 04/06/2025 7:31:02 PM PDT by GOPJ (Elites want the gravy train to keep ripping us off for NATO, Tariffs and bad trade deals. NO MORE.)
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To: hardspunned

Nice thing about being a totalitarian country is a leader can sprew BS and no one is going to disagree, object or point out flaws in logic. That said, I hope China’s OK and that they’ll understand someday about things like ‘being fair’...


5 posted on 04/06/2025 7:31:57 PM PDT by GOPJ (Elites want the gravy train to keep ripping us off for NATO, Tariffs and bad trade deals. NO MORE.)
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To: hardspunned

Could a person find a clearer statement of:

The State Knows all Sees All has infinite wisdom and plans for all.

What a crock. We should see results in a year.


6 posted on 04/06/2025 7:39:09 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: hardspunned

The now official Communist Chinese Party Line on the tariffs:
1) The tariffs were expected and planned for
2) Impact will be limited - “the sky won’t fall”

...for 3 main reasons...
1) China has successfully reduced US market dependence
2) Many US product categories have high dependency on Chinese imports
3) even if (Chinese) companies couldn’t export at all, most can fall back on domestic sales.

3) This is a strategic opportunity for China

...it justifies China’s current transition to its new development model...
...Secondly, it helps China boost its technological self-reliance...
...Thirdly, it positions China as “a responsible great power” in contrast with the US...

Lastly, the tariffs provide additional motivation to “treat expanding domestic demand as a long-term strategy,” with specific emphasis on making consumption the “main driver and ballast of economic growth.”

So I guess the bottom line is that the Communist Government will embark on another wild money printing spree (i.e. “stimulus program”), like they always do.

A lot of this happy talk is just some empty hope to feed to their people, and a fig leaf to hide the leadership’s nakedness in the face of this wrenching realignment. They are still extremely overdependent on exporting manufactured products, and this is going to rapidly accelerate the ongoing exodus of manufacturing out of China.

They talk about the changes of the last few years (the exodus of foreign investors and factories since the COVID shock), as if it was a grand strategy they were driving, when in truth, they were doing everything they could to slow/halt/reverse it. China is the big loser from President Trump’s tariffs.


7 posted on 04/06/2025 7:55:46 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: hardspunned

Yeah OK. If there is a bigger bunch of liars than our own communist democrats, it would be their partners in commie China.


8 posted on 04/06/2025 8:04:13 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: chajin

What did the Peking duck say to the bartender after ordering drinks for the house?
Put it on my bill.


9 posted on 04/06/2025 8:11:28 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: tumblindice
What did the Chinaman say the first time he ate gator?

Tastes like cat.

10 posted on 04/06/2025 8:19:12 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Nine hundred million Chinese walk into a bar. They all order a beer, pay up and just sit there sipping their drinks, not saying a word.
Finally the bartender can’t stand it anymore and says “We don’t see many Chinese in here,”
All nine hundred million reply, “And with this atmosphere of hedonistic individualism and running dog capitalism exploiting the labor of the masses and wasting the people’s agricultural resources, you won’t see many more.”


11 posted on 04/06/2025 8:34:34 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: hardspunned

bookmark


12 posted on 04/06/2025 9:10:56 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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“you won’t see many more.”

Interestingly, the current Chinese population is estimated after latest round of covid to be 700-800 million - major cites, small cities, rural towns are all but deserted.


13 posted on 04/07/2025 6:15:05 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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