The best part about it is that almost no US tech would work without Taiwan's chips
Oh and that China somehow did not get angry at that publicly as of yet, very weird
China is just going triple the price of everything and blame the tariffs for it.
It could help with global warming by decreasing consumption.
looking for a silver lining.... good on you friend. thank you for the perspective shift
lol. That's what the new coal mines are for, silly! The children yearn for the mines... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/climate/trump-order-coal-mining.html
sorry, my family only uses all natural bone coal
Other than the crippling economic crisis it's putting us through, I really like that things in the grocery store are better labelled to show they're local or Canadian now. I've always preferred to buy local because it's better for the environment, now it's easier.
Art of the Green Deal
Good question. How is he going to sell oil, which are his main sponsors?
The EU. Everyone's favourite country.
Well it's a single trading block with free internal trade, it would be Impossible have different import tax levels for different countries within the union without them being trivial to circumvent.
EUSSR, the country of healthcare and public transport.
Jealous :P
Yep, because Taiwan is a country, and the real China.
China is West Taiwan
Occupied mainland Taiwan
That's kinda like if the Confederacy, upon losing the Civil War, fled and occupied Cuba, and was propped up millitarily by, say, the UK as a millitary foothold to keep the US in check back when the UK still had Imperialist chops, then saying the Confederate-occupied Cuba is the real US.
The fact is, the Communists and Nationalists had a 2 decade long civil war, and the Communists won against the Nationalists, who then fled to Taiwan, where the Nationalists have maintained that they are the legitimate government of China.
As with any revolution, such as the French, American, Vietnamese, Russian, Cuban, etc, I don't think it makes much sense to declare the French Monarchy, British Empire, French Colonialists, Russian Tsarists, or fascist Batista regime the "rightful" rulers of the countries the people themselves overthrew, and that extends to China.
As for Taiwanese people, the overwhelming majority support maintaining the status quo, with few wanting hard independence or reconcilliation. This may change now that the US is pivoting away from them as well, but both the PRC and ROC seem to be content to maintain the uneasy status quo for the time being. War would be devastating for Taiwan in particular.
That's kinda like if the Confederacy, upon losing the Civil War, fled and occupied Cuba, and was propped up millitarily by, say, the UK as a millitary foothold to keep the US in check back when the UK still had Imperialist chops, then saying the Confederate-occupied Cuba is the real US.
The fact is, the Communists and Nationalists had a 2 decade long civil war, and the Communists won against the Nationalists, who then fled to Taiwan, where the Nationalists have maintained that they are the legitimate government of China.
As with any revolution, such as the French, American, Vietnamese, Russian, Cuban, etc, I don't think it makes much sense to declare the French Monarchy, British Empire, French Colonialists, Russian Tsarists, or fascist Batista regime the "rightful" rulers of the countries the people themselves overthrew, and that extends to China.
As for Taiwanese people, the overwhelming majority support maintaining the status quo, with few wanting hard independence or reconcilliation. This may change now that the US is pivoting away from them as well, but both the PRC and ROC seem to be content to maintain the uneasy status quo for the time being. War would be devastating for Taiwan in particular.
I said that in a thread the first day felon 47 showed us that .
I said this "New headline. Trump tariffs confirm Taiwan sovereignty."
He had some things like that his first term too. I'm pretty sure he does just to piss China off. He's not really interested in helping Taiwan.
Oh I know. I'm pretty sure though he doesn't understand why it pisses china off.
Putting tariffs on Taiwan is the first step to making them reconcile with China.
Cambodia at 97% highlights how fucking moronic this all is. Let me reindustrialize the economy by cutting off our raw inputs.
Why would Taiwan reconcile with China, dude?
Better trade relations if we keep imposing tariffs on them, obv.
Or were you asking why the Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of China would ever have anything to reconcile over?
The REAL reason China slapped the US with those reciprocal tariffs.
xi is gonna be pissed both that they recognize taiwan and that they charge them less
Well that's because they're different regi--.. oh it says Countries
Yes, countries like the EU, which is also on the list.
And one more to the Mueller stack
Russia received no additional tariffs
Bro looks like a corpse
lemmy dot ml is now confused.
I don't think tankies are keen on recognising Taiwan. They think it should still be part of China.
Wow, Trump really is undermining US foreign policy. Damn, Trump really wants to go out of the way to finally destroy Nixon's legacy.
offtopic: why do i feel like palantir has a lot to do with this current administration's policies
I’m sure they have their own perverse AI calling all the shots
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Never realized how left leaning Lemmy was.
It varies by instance, some are more Marxist, some are more Anarchist, some are more liberal, some are blends of 2 of those. However, the 2 biggest factors are that the Developers are Marxists and thus Marxists have been building communities here from the beginning, and the rejection of Reddit, a highly corporatized social media platform, in order to jump to a smaller FOSS platform, fits neatly with general anticapitalism.
Cowbee thank you for the thoughtful and insightful reply. I wasnt aware of the roots of Lemmy being Marxist or a mix of the two. I appreciate you representing what brought me to Lemmy and away from Reddit which is having a discussion and not down voting and insulting users for a genuine realization. Reddit is a hateful nasty place and many of us left bc of that. So thanks for not being like them
