China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.
China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.
Beijing's measures come in the wake of duties imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration earlier this week.
- China’s finance ministry on Friday said it will impose a 34% tariff on all goods imported from the U.S. starting on April 10.
- The ministry criticized Washington’s decision to impose 34% of additional reciprocal levies on China — bringing total U.S. tariffs against the country to 54% — as “inconsistent with international trade rules.”
- U.S. stock futures and European markets fell sharply on news of the reciprocal tariffs.
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With USA committing political and economic suicide, the road is now clear for China to become the world dominating power.
I just hope they will take a graceful approach to their role, when nobody is in a position to oppose them.Xi got China to #1 world superpower 24 years early!
Without a war.
Congratulations China.
Props to Pooty-poot for the assist
props to trump for the assist!
Xi? You misspelled Trump. Congratulations to China anyway.
Not a chance. China’s massive xenophobic approach to anyone non-Han Chinese will severely limit their potential.
Point out all the racism in various Western countries, and it pales in comparison to what goes on in China.
Point out all the racism in various Western countries, and it pales in comparison to what goes on in China.
Only applies to "Liberal" cities. A conservative town in the US could potentially be worse than a Tier 1 City in China.
Better to be a Black guy in China than a Black guy in the US.
Depends...
I would say: Blue Jurisdiction in the US > Tier 1 City in China (Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai) > Red Jurisdiction in the US.
But then you also have to factor in the reach of the government. You can't criticize the Central Government of China, likewise, nowadays, you cannot criticize the Federal Government of the US. (Also, don't have tattoos, authoritarians hate it)
Their potential is already proven. Xenophobe or not.
More like their potential is already realised.
There are plenty of economic and demographic problems to solve.
China will fail, because the 1st World Asian countries view the CCP and PLA like the Europeans do toward Russia. China under the CCP is not beacon, but a dump.
Good news, or bad news depending on how self reliant your government is. China is doing exactly what it promised it would do if they were the sole super power. Which is we will not militarily interfere with your nation no matter the situation.
So if your like Thailand, or Brazil, wonderful. You get to keep all your freedom and autonomy and China will happily trade with you.
If your Myanmar or Sudan, well good luck revolutionaries. There's no America to stand in your way of overtaking your government. If your the governments of these nations...
What if you're Taiwan...
Or Vietnam or Philippines or Malaysia
This again? Taiwan isn't a recognized country. So they would not be interfering with a nation. IF you disagree with that, petition your own country to recognize Taiwan. The funniest thing is I'm Taiwanese and frankly the Taiwanese don't want independence at this point. That's why the Taiwanese congress is majority status quo and about 50/50 on independence and actually returning to China. The reason president Lai won is because the split is so strong that a 40% vote for Lai got him the win. A few more from the people who wanted status quo voted for him instead of Hou at 34%. Yet if you saw what congress did immediately after, which is handcuff him from ever declaring independence, you'll know the will of the Taiwanese.
So all that is to say, no China won't be attacking Taiwan either. That's just nonsense noise from the west, which frankly I as a Taiwanese person is absolutely sick of. The agreement is simple, Taiwan doesn't declare independence and China will at most saber rattle.
*Edit: Oh and what's not reported is that right after Congress did that, China started a charm offensive. Inviting the former head of the KMT to China and undoing travel restrictions for Taiwanese citizens. So yeah, the war is only in your head, not ours.
Edit 2:. Loving. The down votes for a Taiwanese person explaining to a westerner what our actual opinions are. Why don't you all westsplain to me how I should feel.
This again?
Still.
Still what? I've already explained China isn't attacking. And if you would like Taiwan to be independent petition your own government.
That's a bad take. Independence should be in the view of the people living there. I'm not going to gauge if Taiwan is a country based on if I can convince the US to recognize them, that's nonsense garbage logic
Is it? So you're for the independence of Barcelona? Hawaii? Ireland? Falken Islands? When do they get to choose?
could you provide some evidence you're Taiwanese in Taiwan?
I already did, look through my comments.
then you are the only Chinese person I've ever heard say "Hans Chinese"
Wait, when did I say I'm Chinese?
you said you're Taiwanese above, do you consider yourself Taiwanese and not Chinese?
That's correct. Like I said, westerners have no understanding of what the Taiwanese people want or think. And instead of understanding, they make grand statements about what we want without our input. Again, if you look at the voting, we voted heavily in favor of status quo, which is what I want. If you look at polls, Taiwanese people consider themselves Taiwanese. It's confusing to people like you because you want it to be black and white, we are fine with shades of gray. Mostly though, I want people to stop talking for us.
Edit 2:. Loving. The down votes for a Taiwanese person explaining to a westerner what our actual opinions are. Why don't you all westsplain to me how I should feel.
This is exactly what happens on every .ml or hexbear discussion when someone mentions Ukraine, BTW.
.ml
Of course.
The one thing I liked about Connect better than Voyager. The instance blocking on Connect worked. A whole lot didn't, but that did.
I don't think user comments are typically blocked, just communities. Which is fine with me, I don't have a problem with every single user on instances I have blocked.
In Connect it would auto hide posts made by someone in a blocked community. They'd all be there, but you'd have to elect to have it shown to see it.
What? I’m guessing Taiwan isn’t a real country. People in Hong Kong didn’t have right to self determination.
The bulletts in fired on the Indian border were fake news?
I'm Taiwanese, I know much better what the Taiwanese want than you do. Go through these posts if you want to know my opinion, as well as you'll see my passport.
As to the other stuff, bullets were not fired at India. They don't even patrol with guns. Please read the news before making stuff up.
If they keep that promise, that's mostly good news IMO. Interference doesn't always go so well.
I think Afghanistan is a good example, we were there for 20 years, trying to establish democracy. And now they are right back where they were 20 years ago.
We can't keep policing such countries indefinitely. This is a link of our (Denmark) losses, as a small country that helped the UN effort.
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_tab_i_Afghanistan_siden_2002It's horrible how they treat their own population, but we can't control the entire Muslim world. And all Muslim dominated countries are horrible AFAIK. So I'm good with staying out, as long as they don't create trouble here. Problem is that they do, sometimes for stupid religious reasons.
Of course they will. They're winning. China is patient if anything. That's why even Rubio said they have a 10,000 year plan to take over America. Which is absurd since USA didn't exist then, but that's besides the point. What he's right about is China will wait.
To establish democracy? Are you joking?
That's State Department propaganda that's been completely debunked for a while. The aims of US foreign policy on Afghanistan were lucrative financial exploitation and destabilizing the region.
The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan was colonialism that prevented Afghan self-determination