China to retaliate after Trump fires first salvo in trade war

https://www.politico.eu/article/china-vows-retaliation-after-donald-trump-likely-trade-war-tariffs-chinese-imports/

25 comments

  1. Did people think they’d just sit there and take it?

  2. “China’s ministry of commerce said in a statement that the Chinese government would file a complaint with the World Trade Organization and take unspecified “corresponding countermeasures to firmly safeguard its own rights and interests.””.

    Looks like there are no counter tariffs yet.

  4. I legitimately don’t understand what the point of this all is. The moment prices start going up people are gonna get mad.

  5. The baseline belief some Americans have that “The world needs us more than we need the world” will blind a lot of them to the fact that isolationism is a insanely ineffective foreign policy and it is killing decades of diplomatic advances in favor of strongman politics. I miss when politics were just a bunch of boring people at least trying to have the veneer of respectability.

  6. 2 inches to the right would have solved this problem in Pennsylvania.

  7. The US is handling the world to China in a silver plate. Most countries are furiously drawing up plans to decouple, either in the short or long term from such untrustworthy “partner”. Make America Irrelevant Biggly.

  8. I can’t believe I’m fucking agreeing with China. What the hell is going on U.S?

  10. Never thought I’d see the day China being the reasonable one but apparently here we are. The cheeto manchild and his baying sycophants have pretty much torpedoed America’s soft power and international reputation back to the age when the founding fathers weren’t even conceived yet.

  11. All these countries that are being tariffed by the US, need to band together and create a free trade agreement immediately.

    Freeze the US economy out period.

  12. Next up: “Europe enacts tariffs on US in preparation for trump starting trade war”

    Then

    Russia enacts tariffs, “Hooray, this is fun!”

  13. We’re a few short months away from hearing Trump say “**who knew tariffs would turn out to be so complicated?**”

    Not even a few months ago, Trump was emphatic that tariffs on imported goods are a “tax that’s paid by the exporting country” that can be used to bring “billions of dollars” of revenue into a country.

    Watching him COMPLETELY trash that same insisted claim, and admit that tariffs will make prices go up, leaves me bewildered as to why about 70,000,000 voted for him at all. Were they all drinking paint?

  14. When the dollar is no longer linked to oil prices, we’ll see where the US sits. It would also be interesting to see China call in US debts.

  15. He runs this country like a company!!! Into the fucking ground, like the rest of his companies.

    While bailing out with billions. Leaving rest of the American pop in deep depression. 

  16. Does trump think the rest of the world has no power?

    We can collectively make the US miserable

  17. This is going to get really really messy. It’s one thing for Trump to restart the trade war with China which already hurt Americans. It’s another to also start trade wars with Mexico and Canada, nevermind Europe and Asian allies on the horizon.  

  18. Fuck around and find out. He launches tariffs on everyone they are even more encouraged to retaliate

  20. The world needs to work together against America and Trump’s insane regime.

  22. Southerners won’t give a damn when factories in the north start closing. When shit starts getting more expensive at Walmart? That they’ll notice.

  23. China will only come out of this stronger while US global hegemony gets weaker and weaker.  

  24. When people tell You not to fight back it’s usually bc they’re scared of your response. Canada and Mexico will and are hitting back

  25. Speed running China into becoming the world’s #1 superpower. I am literally stunned that a US president has this much power, no Congress, no House needed. Just executive order after executive order trashing alliances, ripping apart Federal Government, destroying decades of human rights advancements. And it seems there is a stunned silence everywhere you look. Where are the protests? The strikes? The outrage?

    This was one of the closest peaceful alliances in the world. It’s hard to understate how close Americans and Canadians are culturally, in military and intelligence, in cross border trade. As our Ontario premier said: “It’s like getting stabbed in the heart by your closest friend.”

    As a Canadian this has done more to revive National pride and patriotism than anything else I’ve ever seen. The ‘buy Canadian,’ and find new trade partners is louder than it’s ever been. Normal people are even cheering being able to take pride in the Canadian flag back from the Maple MAGAs who co-opted it and made it distasteful for most during their Freedom Convoy stuff.

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