South Korea, China, Japan agree to promote regional trade as Trump tariffs loom

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-china-japan-agree-promote-regional-trade-trump-tariffs-loom-2025-03-30/

33 comments

  1. So they should after being stabbed in the back by trump and his lackeys

  2. Watch China come out on top if and when this circus ends

  3. I love it.

    Hollywood, being aware of how big the market is, is re-creating their movies to pass Commie filter. Everything for the profit.

    And then there is this orange dipshit not understanding simple mathematics, creating an environment so the same country PROMOTE not buying U-ASS-A.

    I just love it.

  4. The one good thing this orange dude does is he managed to unite everyone against him (except Russia), rich and poor alike. Even rival nations that usually hate each other like Japan and China is now united against him.

  5. Britain: ‘Look how devastating BREXIT was for our economy.’
    trump: ‘Hold my ketchup…’

  6. Aussie here. This is fantastic news. They had slowly worked diplomacy towards a tripartite deal for years but US influence over SK and JP basically shut it down the same way they tried to stop TPP.

    Next we just need the US to crack India’s protectionism and push them into getting involved in RCEP (it is possible – Indonesia is the first member of BRICS to join only a few months ago). And add another 10% or something global gdp to our networked free trade blocs that we have all been working on for the last few decades. Maybe that could even soften the border clashes between India and China at the LAC.

    Then another dream outcome. India, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and France all working together to keep open the Indo Pacific shipping lanes. Then it won’t matter what silly shit China or US try and get up to above the equator.

  8. Putin’s bitch is doing such a shit job that he’s actually getting China, Japan and South Korea to put aside some of their difference and history. Quite impressive.

  11. Republicans are the most proudly stupid and ruinous people on the planet.

  12. By the end of Trump’s second term, it looks like the US will be the only country without an economic Trading Bloc. I don’t see how they will recover from this.

  13. How to ruin a country (fast), USA edition.

    Trump only needed like 10 weeks to get the whole world to work on alternative partnerships without the US.

  14. Do you know how empires end? They end when all of their adversaries feel it is better to support each other than the empire. Turning allies into adversaries will only hasten the demise. Clear demonstration of stable genius.

  15. Alternative title: Orange man successfully united rival nations that hated each other for centuries

  17. Australia here we want in on that action, Trump told us that he was doing reciprocal tariffs, but we had a free trade agreement, so zero tariffs, he called us one of the “Dirty 15”, and applied a 25% tariff to Australian goods.

    They are closer to us anyway.

  18. US under MAGA: “China is our main adversary, screw everyone else!”

    Everyone else: “Hi China!”

  19. If this means I can get computer components for cheap on the local economy in Korea, then I’m all for it.

  20. If they decide to take a look on what they can du with all the US debt they own, then it will get REALLY interesting.

  21. Canada says what’s up. Hope you all are well.

  22. How the fuck did he get the 3 biggest asian countries with beef lasting centuries to cooperate?!?

    By being a terrible terrible person. DT bringing common enemies together against him. I hope it improves those countries relationships at least.

  23. Donald just creating new trade powerhouses in EU and Asia

  24. Im really sure the one thing Donald Trump didn’t want to do with his tarifa was promote other trade agreements but I’m pleased it has become a concept

  25. If there’s any indication that what you’re doing is wrong, it’s that it somehow got SK, Japan, and China working together. These nations have had animosity for millennia that isn’t easily overcome, and for them to come together like this means the alternative is much, much, worse.

  26. Trump is just doing his best to make America great isn’t he? What a genius. Lmao. Keep it coming Donald.

  27. If ww3 happens, will it be the Us and Russia vs everyone else?

  28. History will tell how one man managed to unite the whole world whilst ending the hegemony of the leading world power

  30. Good guy Trump, acts so insufferable that countries who hold ancestral grudge finally works together

  31. I have a feeling that Americans mistakenly believe that all these countries will come rushing back to trade with the US whenever Trump lifts these tariffs.

    These tariffs are so arbitrary that they reveal the US to be an unstable partner. You can’t build long term relationships this way. Trump is causing generational damage.

    To the extent possible, a lot of countries will try to steer clear of the US if equivalent or better alternatives exist.

  32. Trump is amazing at uniting every country but Americans.

  33. When South Korea and Japan are doing things to not help the United States there’s a fucking problem. think we’re running out of allies pretty fast.

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