Tariffs - Walmart prices are going up by at least 30% to 100%?

 The USA is all about maximizing profits for the top 1%. The rest of the 90% or thereabouts is not the Government's priority. As a Plutocracy, it is a government of the 1%, by the 1% and for the 1%. Who else can run for President without such deep pockets but the 1% elites. They have no idea how the bottom 90% are going to cope with expensive EVs and other consumer products with tariffs added on. Even USA made EVs will probably cost double or triple the price of Chinese EVs.

What are tariffs being erected for? Not to help the 90%, as they have to pay more with the tariffs added on. China is not going to lose anything, save selling fewer EVs in the USA market. China can sell to the rest of the developing world, tariff free. Tariffs are to protect the turf of the super-rich in the USA, those who owns the conglomerates on Wall Street, the big businesses having to compete with China. Their campaign donations have to be repaid with policies tailoring to their lobbying in Congress. The unseen corruption going on within the Government.

Anonymous

PS. Because of high tariffs, Walmart prices are going up by at least 30%. Also, because of sanctions, Walmart would have lesser goods from China to sell.

History is contorted to whitewash the crimes of the Anglo-Saxon Imperialist...Singapore was founded by Raffles?

 Even history is contorted to whitewash the crimes of the Anglo-Saxon Imperialist. The two nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were spun into saving lives by stopping the war. The real historical reality behind it, according to some historical analysts, was the USA wanting to take the spot as the first nuclear power to possess the bomb ahead of the Soviet Union. In case the message was not clear enough, they needed to drop the second bomb. Sacrificing millions just to tell the world that the USA has arrived?

The USA lost the first man in space title to the Soviet Union, so they faked the moon landing to go one up on the Soviet Union. John F. Kennedy told the country that the USA must go to the moon to regain its prestige, at all costs. Even by fakery?

History is what was written by those who wants the world to believe in what they wanted the future generations to remember, not the reality, but the fabrication. The first pilgrims landing in North America were touted as wanting to spread the message of God. Or was the intent to commit genocide of the Native American Indians in order to rob their land. What that also a con written into the history books?

All those Anglo-Saxon discoveries of continents are just hogwash. Who were those already living on those continents and were they not the original discoverers and inhabitants without needing the Anglo-Saxon pirates to add their names into the history books? Marco Polo would have been the discoverer of China, had the Chinese Civilization not already existed thousands of years before him.

Anonymous

China's war with the American terrorists is unavoidable

 The American terrorists are doing everything they could to start a war with China in the South China Sea. Their strategy is to use the Pinoys as their proxy, the same formula they are using in Ukraine. And the Mickey Mouse in the Philippines are as willing and as eager as the Mickey Mouse in Ukraine. And the people in both Mickey Mouse states are just as enthusiastic to go to war, both believing that they can win a war against Russia or China. How the Mickey Mouse could think they could win is not puzzling as the size of a Mickey Mouse brain is no bigger than a pea.

China has been tolerating the provocation, agitation and advances of the Pinoys in the South China Sea for more than 20 years, trying to be nice and accommodating since the deliberate beaching of the Sierra Maidre in Renai Jiao. China did not know that being kind and nice to pea brain people is a waste of time and would be seen as a sign of weakness. For more than 20 years, China did not learn anything and keeps committing the same mistake of appeasing the Mickey Mouse, hoping that the Mickey Mouse would come to its senses and realise how silly and futile is their silly antics.

The Mickey Mouse in Ukraine and the Philippines both think that with the Americans behind their backs, they can commit murder or can win a war with Russia and China. The more China avoid kicking the asses of the Mickey Mouse, the more embolden it becomes, becoming more cocky and daring.

The American terrorists are not sitting idle at the same time. They are building more military bases in the Philippines, beefing up their boots on the ground, stocking up their weapons for a war with China. The Americans are even deploying their nuclear capable mid range missiles in the Philippines that can hit China mainland. For sure, the Americans would not remove these missiles for they know that China could not do a thing, and would not do a thing. Despite all the thousand years of wisdom, the Chinese must be looking really stupid in the eyes of the Americans and the Pinoys. Provocation after provocation, the Chinese only complained and put up some verbal threats but looking every bit like a paper tiger. All noises and nothing else.

China thinks it can avoid a war with the American terrorists by lowering its head when provoke and look elsewhere, and appeasing the aggressors. The more meek China behaves, the more the American terrorists and the Pinoys think they can chase the Chinese out of the South China Sea, and the more aggressive they become to the point of insanity.

Finally, I think, China has realised its stupidity, that kindness and avoidance of conflict cannot work with American terrorists and Mickey Mouse. China has lately taken more robust actions to push back the Pinoy advances and provocation. China has no choice. The American terrorists are pushing for war whether China likes it or not. If China still thinks it can avoid a war by behaving meekly, it would not only have a war sooner, but also be seen as a hopeless paper tiger that even Mickey Mouse Philippines would dare to threaten to go to war with.

By now China better make up its mind to go head on with the American terrorists and the Mickey Mouse or they will be sitting on China's head and shitting on it. There is no escape from a hot war with the Americans. Face it now and stop deluding that war will go away. It is better to prepare for war, take the animal by the horn or be gore to death. The good news is that if China is prepare to take on the Americans like what Putin did in Ukraine, there is a higher chance that the American terrorists would back off and a war avoided. The Americans and Mickey Mouse are getting more aggressive not because China was aggressive, but because China was meek.

The Mickey Mouse is watching every move made by China. So far, Mickey Mouse have concluded that China is a paper tiger, afraid to go to war with the Americans. Thus they could claim Chinese islands as theirs as when come to a crunch, and China would flee with its tail between its legs.

The ball is now in China's court, to flee like a paper tiger or to stand firm to defend its territorial integrity against a Mickey Mouse. A weak China would also mean that it will lose its stature as a world leader, and respect from the African and Middle Eastern nations, also from nations of the Global South. This is a war that China must fight.

If Mao dared to take on the Americans in Korea, would the Chinese today have the guts to take on the Americans in the South China Sea? Japan is also waiting to jump in to wallop a weak and meek China when they think China deserves to be whacked, by joining force with the American terrorists. So are all the weak little European states and little Canada and Australia. 

When China is seen as a loser, even Asean would turn against China. That is the price to pay for being weak and meek. And the most silly thing is that by behaving meekly, China is still being accused of being the aggressor by the Mickey Mouse.

Toilet paper, oops, I mean American dollar is a dual use item and should be banned!

 The USA really lost the edge in high tech and is very desperate. It is using the modus operandi where if it cannot compete with, it has to make the competition disappear. Not making any effort to take on the challenge of making better stuff and taking the easy way out is self-defeating.

After attempting to ban Tik Tok, the USA is now targeting Telegram, founded by a Russian and competing very successfully with USA platforms. So successful that the USA now probably wants it under USA control or targeting it.

Decoupling is going on fast and furious, no two ways about hiding it. The USA is about to ban DJI drones, which many essential USA entities depended upon for its superior performance and cheaper price. This comes on the heels of China's ban on unregulated civilian drones that can be converted to military use, or dual use. Is the ban just putting the cart before the horse to put the USA in a position of strength and look more independent than in reality? Many entities in the USA are against the ban, because they are unable to find comparable drones made elsewhere, even in the USA. According to Kevin Walmsley on 'Inside China Business', for search and rescue jobs on mountains for example, USA made drones failed even to reach the mountain top and failed to do the job.

On the other hand, the USA Government is giving waivers and exemptions to its own military, police surveillance activities from the ban, and still allow them the use of Chinese drones. The same exemption given to the USA military using Chinese semiconductors in their weapons system, while prohibiting businesses and citizens from using such semiconductors in their products. The same immunity given to their drug tainted athletes while accusing others of violating the drug rules. 

Anonymous

Anglo-Saxons and the American Jews falsely accused China to cover the dark side of their horrendous crimes against American natives

 The Anglo-Saxons and the American Jews in the United States who had genocided more than 99 percent of my fellow native Americans like to falsely accuse China of genocide of the Uyghurs just to cover the dark side of their horrendous crimes and killings of the American natives. No matter what they will never able to cover up or whitewash their criminal activities of merciless tortures and slaughter of native Americans. History has told us that the Uyghurs who formerly came from Turkey to escape wars in Turkey and the Middle East were formerly allowed by the emperors of the Han and Tang Dynasties to settle in the Chinese land of Xinjiang out of kindness and generosity. So the Uyghurs are actually immigrants in China. 

Throughout history Chinese governments have treated the Uyghurs well. Their numbers swell with the flow of time and their turkic language was allowed to be used . Uyghurs way of life and their culture continue to flourish and be very vibrant now as seen in all towns and cities in Xinjiang especially during festivities. Uyghurs population has increased from about four or five million in 1945 to about twelve or thirteen million at the present. 

The Uyghur turkic language is preserved and is an official language in Xinjiang in addition to the Chinese national language Mandarin or Putong Hua. Uyghurs leaders are well represented in China's parliament. Uyghurs cultural troupes, their singers and dancers are proud to constantly taking part in national festivities in public performances. In fact the Uyghurs way of life is part of the overall vibrancy of Chinese ways of life all over China from small districts, villages and towns to major cities.

Can the Anglo-Saxon controlled United States boast of these similar activities to showcase the native Americans. No, impossible because they had genocided almost all the native Americans. Even now the white invaders, the Anglo-Saxons have plans to finish off to the last native American so as to erase any trace that America was once the homeland of native Americans, just as after that they can shamelessly claim to be the original occupants of America.

Alex Duran : A native American from Chicago