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'This is so hard': The Chinese small businesses brought to a standstill by Trump's tariffs
BBC News ^ | April 16, 2025 | by Laura Bicker

Posted on 04/16/2025 4:02:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Absolutely breaks my heart but its every coolie for himself now.


61 posted on 04/16/2025 6:30:08 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: mewzilla

“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?!”

BBC knows how the sad Chinese feel, having had their own USAID suckle slapped away.


62 posted on 04/16/2025 6:32:47 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: bert

Of course...thank you! And it was six variables, not five that were plotted.

I can see you are as much of a fan of it as I am...:)


63 posted on 04/16/2025 6:35:25 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now those products are sitting in boxes in a warehouse in China

Buy American

Problem solved

DUH


64 posted on 04/16/2025 6:37:56 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lionel and Amy? Not sure if I believe that.


65 posted on 04/16/2025 6:39:27 AM PDT by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Cry me a river


66 posted on 04/16/2025 6:42:50 AM PDT by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Too bad, so sad.

I have watched these same small businesses put countless American small businesses out of business due to unfair competition of the the last several decades.

This is way overdue. And by the way, anyone who has ever done business with these "small businesses" will attest to the fact that the last thing these people deserve is sympathy.

67 posted on 04/16/2025 6:56:14 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

At the rate things are going with China I think their economy is going to collapse and turn into a Great Depression. This will result in significant enough social unrest that the overthrow of Chi-Com rule could very well happen.


68 posted on 04/16/2025 7:05:51 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: rlmorel

I think Trump should offer the US Constitution to China and the rest of the world.


69 posted on 04/16/2025 7:20:13 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (on)
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To: rlmorel

My French is lacking. I wanted to observe the effect Ukraine had on the Armee coming and going.

I maintain that the Russian effort to occupy Ukraine is to re establish the buffer to deplete the invasion of armies invading from Europe before they could reach the soil of Mother Russia.


70 posted on 04/16/2025 7:38:30 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Lurker
I recall when most of the shirt, shoe, lampshade factories closed in NE PA in the 60s. They first moved to Tenn., Kentucky then Taiwan, China, etc. Labor unions did not seem to care ?? Many of those workers were the High School drop outs or those without a trade. Many were on unemployment, which I helped pay for and crickets from Congress, Media. SO WAAAAAAA!
71 posted on 04/16/2025 8:36:45 AM PDT by Hot Rod Garage (Sh)
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To: Lurker
I recall when most of the shirt, shoe, lampshade factories closed in NE PA in the 60’s. They first moved to Tenn., Kentucky then Taiwan, China, etc. Labor unions did not seem to care ?? Many of those workers were the High School drop outs or those without a trade. Many were on unemployment, which I helped pay for and our crickets from Congress, Media. SO WAAAAAAA!
72 posted on 04/16/2025 8:37:53 AM PDT by Hot Rod Garage (Sh)
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To: rlmorel

Agreed


73 posted on 04/16/2025 8:42:24 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( All Democrats need to go to prison.)
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To: The Free Engineer

Great response.


74 posted on 04/16/2025 9:09:17 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: FLT-bird

Why do you think this guy is “a common person?”

“A “common person” in China isn’t talking to a major foreign news organization. Communist party propagandists are.


75 posted on 04/16/2025 9:15:06 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Skwor

Those protesting got deaded during Covid.
Chicoms are busy persecuting Christians with arrests right now.
Chicoms and the wolf warrior mentality made enemies of everyone they encounter.
Their Bricc construction projects are absolutely garbage with them failing. Leaving behind huge debts for the countries that can’t pay.
They bully the crap out of Taiwan.
They steal organs.
They commit genocide.

So I have ZFG for folks who steal every idea from the inventors and rob our country blind. They can choke on their racist BS.


76 posted on 04/16/2025 9:56:12 AM PDT by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
"...I think Trump should offer the US Constitution to China and the rest of the world..."

I would agree-but...as we are finding out to our sorrow, unless it is followed, it is no better that the New York Times at the bottom of a bird cage.

In Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago he described how they had the Soviet Constitution, it was even better than the American one, and by law, they had to make it available at all times for the Zeks in the prisons to consult it.

But they simply twisted the Soviet Constitution (much as our leaders are now) to say whatever they want it to say today, not what the founders SAID, and MEANT it to say when it was ratified!

77 posted on 04/16/2025 10:05:17 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: bert

I think that if you ask the oligarchs in Russia, they would probably confirm that and agree. Doesn’t make it right, but...I could see them saying it.


78 posted on 04/16/2025 10:07:00 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: RoosterRedux

“ Xi’s system doesn’t survive under fair trade rules. It only thrives on exploitation”

Crux of it.


79 posted on 04/16/2025 10:24:03 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DAC21

Probably died from complications from alcohol. He was an alcoholic.


80 posted on 04/16/2025 10:27:39 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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