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Soooooo apparently the Chinese tariffs on soy and cotton will badly hurt the very Deep South deadbeat farmers who put Trump in the White House in the first place.


Seems kinda fitting.

 -k

Soooooo apparently the Chinese tariffs on soy and cotton will badly hurt the very Deep South deadbeat farmers who put Trump in the White House in the first place.


Seems kinda fitting.

 -k

I doubt that's an accident.  The US has a distinct disadvantage in that the entire world knows them more than they care to know about others.

Trump says "China is hurting us" and they come up with a blunt attack approach, using the dumb Trump voters to support it.  The US's internal politics is open, and very well publicized, so China can be surgical with its response.

Both probably. The EU was going to impose tariffs on industries that were based in McConnell's and Ryan's states. No doubt the Chinese would like to target areas of Trump support.

For anyone pissing on the US they are not doing anything different than any other country in the world which is trying to look after their own best economic interests. Canada and everyone else does it. This high almighty approach to the US as if its the only hooker walking the street is a joke.

Next, China is a cancer. It has used its centralized government structure to create a large predatory monopoly using cheap labour and artificial lowering of its currency, to assure gross trade imbalances with every nation it trades with.

China has created its entire financial base on cheap, inferior, dangerous goods. It has undercut free trade by fixing prices and swamping markets with crap. Ultimately we the consumer created China. We use short sighted purchasing principles- we choose to buy crap because its cheaper and we no longer care about quality or use common sense thinking if we buy cheap Chinese crap it breaks, and we end up buying even more cheap crap to replace it rather than paying up front once for a product that lasts. We have all been hooked into that.

Walmart has made a fortune engaging in predatory marketing on behalf of China to flood its markets with crap perishable foods from China on its shelves courtesy of human feces irrigation systems.

Please don't pose China as a victim its a  victimizer-a vast, monopoly with no human rights, no health and safety regulations or consumer standards. Its a cancer on the world in terms of what it contributes. It sucks energy. Its sole offering to the world since 1949 has been to create **** inferior productsand excellent hackers who break in and steal industrial secrets from the idiot West.

Trump is a weasel as an individual. Playing the I hate Trump card is easy because it ignores what China is and what it has done to the free market supply and demand system.

Trump did not create China, human stupidity, laziness and greed did and it won't be stopped by Trump.

As for Trudeau, I find it rich some of you **** on Trump and stay silent on the Prancing Prince, Mr. Dress Up, St. Justine of Trudeau and his comments applauding China. Atta boy Fidel Jr.

Next, China is a cancer. It has used its centralized government structure to create a large predatory monopoly using cheap labour and artificial lowering of its currency, to assure gross trade imbalances with every nation it trades with.

notwithstanding the ever present most simpletonTrumpster view on trade deficits... a view that doesn't consider the bigger picture in terms of capital accounts, financial (current) accounts, capital flows, exchange rates, etc..

the U.S. is, quite obviously, an investor nation - it invests more than it saves and, accordingly, imports foreign capital and correspondingly runs a capital account surplus. That foreign imported capital allows U.S. citizens to consume more goods than they produce... hence... a resulting trade deficit. If you properly consider balance of payments, when you isolate solely on just the current account side of that balance (let alone just one facet of current accounts (goods trading)) you completely ignore the other side of that balance equation - you ignore capital accounts... the buying and selling of investment assets such as real estate, stocks, bonds, and government securities. And, of course, within that current-to-capital accounts relationship, you ignore exchange rates.

Ivanka Trump’s clothing company will be spared from tariffs, thanks to her dad --- https://thinkprogress.org/ivanka-trump-clothing-tariffs-437840f07b83/

Just the latest of the multitude of ethical conflicts between Trump businesses and White House influence.

They claim that clothing was exempted because of "a complex algorithm intended to minimize the impact of tariffs on American consumers", which seems like a plausible explanation.  Regular Joe and Jane buy lots of made-in-China things, including clothes, and a big tariff on that stuff would directly affect the average consumer.   But there is clearly a conflict of interest.

During the 1990s conservatives considered it a scandal that the Clintons may have used official influence to benefit the Whitewater development they had invested in.  During the campaign, conservatives considered it a scandal that the Clintons may have used official influence to benefit the Clinton Foundation.

But now conservatives no longer consider it a scandal that the White House uses influence to benefit private Trump business interests. "don't care about that, gotta get that wall built!"


 -k

I disagree that Trump and those like him didn't help make China. Most of his and his families product lines are produced in places like China and Bangladesh.

Do you think Trump will get around to imposing tariffs on goods he and his family have manufactured in China.

That said, I agree with you when it comes to what China is and that the US and others have valid complaints when it comes to China's trade practices.

Good pt. on Trump's connection to China. He had no problem using it to his personal financial advantage. That said the trade imbalances China creates using its very heavy tarrifs on foreign goods coming into it has to stop. It does not engage in fair trade and never has. In fact one of the reasons I am against the carbon tax system although I am very concerned about the environment is because I believe it will give China huge advantage in trade and industry over  any country honestly trying to reduce air pollution.