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This is going to get interesting.

Who is tougher the base or the Oriental man?

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The fool builds walls': China takes aim at Trump trade war threats

Chinese state media has attacked the White House for escalating the prospect of a trade war, calling the administration of president Donald Trump “selfish” and “rude” and “mundane” in its capriciousness.

Related: China retaliates against Trump's $50bn in tariffs, escalating possibility of trade war

“The unpredictability of [the] Trump administration has become mundane, or even boring for China,” an editorial in the state-run tabloid Global Times said on Sunday.

“It reinforces the difference in images of the two countries: one challenges the foundation of global trade through sudden attacks; and one that is prepared to defend itself in a trade war that it cannot avoid.”

After months of negotiations, China and the US are on the brink of an all-out trade war. On Friday, the US unveiled a list of $50bn in Chinese goods to target with 25% tariffs, pledging more duties if China retaliated. Within hours China released its own list of retaliatory tariffs to place on $50bn in US imports.

An editorial in the People’s Daily on Saturday said the latest trade provocations allowed China “to see more clearly the face of the Trump administration, one that is rude, unreasonable, selfish and headstrong”. China’s official Xinhua news agency added: “The wise man builds bridges, the fool builds walls. With economic globalisation there are no secluded and isolated islands.”

China’s proposed tariffs on more than 500 categories of US goods, a list more extensive than the one it released in April, appear aimed at hurting Trump’s Republican base before the US midterm elections in November. The list includes beef, poultry, pork, dairy products, seafood, tobacco and soybeans. China is the largest buyer of US soybeans. Beijing said it would also target $16bn of US products like coal, crude oil, natural gas, and medical equipment at a later date.

The situation could still escalate. US trade representative Robert Lighthizer has said the White House will release a plan by the end of the month on restricting Chinese investment in the US and limiting Chinese purchases of advanced technology from the country.

Trump has said he would triple the value of Chinese imports subjected to tariffs to $150bn.

Other levers Beijing has already begun to employ include extra inspections on current US imports into China.

“The economic damage of the tariffs announced so far won’t be too big in the scheme of things. But that could quickly change,” said Roland Rajah, the director of the international economy programme at the Lowy Institute in Sydney.

Chinese state media still left room for the possibility of negotiations. “Given the frequent flip-flopping of the Donald Trump administration, it is still too early to conclude that a trade war will start,” said an English-language editorial in the China Daily.

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Surgically implementing tarrifs can work but raw material ones like steel and aluminum will never work and only cost Americans billions.

America is going backwards and become a recluse country. We have lost our world leadership and become a laughingstock around the world. 

We have a president who embraces dictators and insults and tarrifs our very own loyal allies.

God Bless America

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A fool describes Trump perfectly.  He has started a trade war on many fronts.  Usually fighting a war on several fronts goes poorly.

Unless of course his aim is to hurt the US because Putin told him to.  

 

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1 hour ago, Mainecat said:

Surgically implementing tarrifs can work but raw material ones like steel and aluminum will never work and only cost Americans billions.

America is going backwards and become a recluse country. We have lost our world leadership and become a laughingstock around the world. 

We have a president who embraces dictators and insults and tarrifs our very own loyal allies.

God Bless America

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5 minutes ago, revkevsdi said:

A fool describes Trump perfectly.  He has started a trade war on many fronts.  Usually fighting a war on several fronts goes poorly.

Unless of course his aim is to hurt the US because Putin told him to.  

 

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11 minutes ago, favoritos said:

Title seems a bit ironic coming from a country that has built the largest wall in the world.  Maybe this guy knows something no one else has learned.

Chinese propaganda aimed at making them look strong and Vince gobbles it right up. The “fool” wants fair trade. 

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30 minutes ago, favoritos said:

Title seems a bit ironic coming from a country that has built the largest wall in the world.  Maybe this guy knows something no one else has learned.

Good point on the Great Wall of China. Your dear leader’s thinking is as current as their wall. 

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38 minutes ago, Edmo said:

Chinese propaganda aimed at making them look strong and Vince gobbles it right up. The “fool” wants fair trade. 

Not at all. This is propaganda. It’s propaganda to prepare the Chinese people to abandon American goods. Unlike Americans who will never give up Chinese made goods. 

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1 hour ago, spin_dry said:

Not at all. This is propaganda. It’s propaganda to prepare the Chinese people to abandon American goods. Unlike Americans who will never give up Chinese made goods. 

I'm thinking the Oriental man will outlast the base in this trade war.

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It's like a tear in the hands of a western man

Tell you about salt, carbon and water

But tear to an Oriental man   

He'll tell you about sadness and sorrow or the love of a man and a woman

Paul Kantner/Grace Slick/Byong Yu

Dragon Fly

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Edmo said:

Chinese propaganda aimed at making them look strong and Vince gobbles it right up. The “fool” wants fair trade. 

Relatively recent history tells us the death toll the Chinese suffered under the Cultural Revolution was 3 million dead and at least 100 million who suffered greatly.

This is just a guess but I'm thinking it might be us who blinks first :news:

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Here is some math to make the Trumpsters heads spin. 

According to Trump if he puts 50 billion worth of tariffs on Canada, it will hurt our exports. So he attacks Canada and the rest of the g7!  That’s 6 countries plus China and now India is putting tariffs on the Us.  So 8 countries for arguments sake put tariffs on 50 billion worth of Us goods.  Each of those countries have 50 billion worth of their goods suffering from punishing tarrifs.  The US. Has 400 billion worth of goods with punishing tariffs. 

Art of the deal. Lol

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1 hour ago, revkevsdi said:

Here is some math to make the Trumpsters heads spin. 

According to Trump if he puts 50 billion worth of tariffs on Canada, it will hurt our exports. So he attacks Canada and the rest of the g7!  That’s 6 countries plus China and now India is putting tariffs on the Us.  So 8 countries for arguments sake put tariffs on 50 billion worth of Us goods.  Each of those countries have 50 billion worth of their goods suffering from punishing tarrifs.  The US. Has 400 billion worth of goods with punishing tariffs. 

Art of the deal. Lol

And tonight Dump doubles down and threatens to tariff $200 billion more ore Chinese goods

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Everything made in China is toxic junk. Fuck them and their crap products. Fuck the GREEDY AMERICAN bastard businessmen who outsourced their products FOR MORE PROFIT. They ruined our country.    

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