Americans are eating the tariffs...NOT China. Xi is driving Trump crazy

 The silence by Xi Jinping is driving Trump crazy. So crazy that he has to resort to lying. He is still in delusion, claiming that China will have to eat the tariffs. Where did he get all his feedback and who is advising him?

Walmart was reported to have instructed Chinese suppliers to resume shipments, which means that they are paying those tariffs to keep their outlets functioning instead of closing, but whether it will absorb those tariffs or pass some on to USA consumers is yet unknown. Absorbing the tariffs of 145% is definitely out of the question.

Amazon, if I am not misleading, was also coming up with a new measure by displaying the price of the goods and showing separately the tariffs being added. But after Bezos had a talk with Trump, and under pressure I would assume, is now not going to display the tariffs separately. That displaying of the tariffs may shock buyers I think, with the tariffs being possibly more than the price of the product and is a way of telling customers that they are paying the tariffs, not China. So, China is really not eating the tariffs, as these two giant importers of Chinese goods are already blinking on Trump's behalf. And Trump, in honesty, should already know that China is not eating those tariffs instead of still lying about it.

In the face of the tariff war, UPS is cutting 20,000 jobs and closing delivery outlets after facing fewer deliveries for Amazon. I guess others like DHL would be facing similar problems now. The chain reaction is moving across the whole USA economic landscape. Loss of jobs means more unemployed, which means lower consumption spending, which means less business for others like food and beverage, which again means more job cuts, and which may even mean more homelessness. The cycle is getting vicious by the day. Yet, with all the so-called experts and advisors in the Trump administration, no one sees the train wreck approaching.

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USA is not a reliable and trustworthy trade partner

 Did some kid tell Trump that he is the emperor without clothes? Somebody ought to wake him up from his delusion, thinking himself to be grander than others with his grandstanding.

Even allies are not following his dictates. Japan refused to cut off trade links with China even though they are not close buddies. The EU is doing the same now with increase trade relations with China and Canada. Disillusioned allies are coming together and ditching the USA. After all, they are also being targeted by Trump with tariffs. In fact, they are finding out that China is much more trustworthy and reliable, after having now found out that the USA is not a reliable and trustworthy trade partner. Any trade agreements will just be torn away like a piece of toilet paper. So will those 'iron clad' pronouncements that they have been given.

Amidst all the gloating about 200 countries queuing up to kiss Trump's arse, not one agreement has been reached or announced yet. Out of the 195 countries in the world, with 5 countries added to the list from outer space or thin air, to make it into a more explosive round figure of 200 now queuing, including the poor penguins, the negotiating is going to take more than 90 days before the reprieve ends. Isn't that a sick joke from sick man? No strategy, no background support, just plain hot air. Even farting is not as haphazard as what comes out of Trump's dirty mouth.

Anonymous

Lunatic Trump started this tariff war and begging China to deescalate for him

 Tariffs on China is not only affecting the retail sector in the USA; it is destroying jobs in many other sectors as well. The creation of jobs has not been seen yet, but the destruction of jobs is happening right before our eyes.

The trucking sector, in the frontline, and dock workers are feeling the first whammy right now, with truckers idling with fewer jobs. With lesser or no earnings, what would they depend on for survival? If they are working for a trucking company, there is the bigger fear over the loss of their job. If they own their trucks, a day idling is a problem for them to pay the loans for their trucks, on top of maintenance costs.

Factories also depend on imported parts from China, and with tariffs and parts stuck at ports or cancelled, factories cannot operate optimally to make affordable goods and may have to cut production lines and do away with jobs that are not needed. With more people losing jobs, even Federal jobs, how is the retail sector going to survive with people having little to spend? Again, the same result of closing outlets and letting people go. This is all the compounding problems resulting from just the simple effect of the imposition of tariffs. Problems that have obviously not been foreseen.

Trump and his administration are really desperate now to end this madness, but being a problem that they created, China is not going to back down and will dig in. Sure, China is also feeling the effect, but not as serious as the USA. China still has the Global South market to fall back on, an area that it can compete effectively.

Anonymous

Why NASA Is Monitoring Methane Leaks From Space?

Why NASA Is Monitoring Methane Leaks From Space?

Have you ever wondered why a space agency like NASA would be interested in something as earthy as methane? Imagine a world where invisible gases silently shape and potentially harm our planet's future. The story of NASA monitoring methane leaks from space is not just about science; it's a gripping narrative of innovation, urgency, and the quest to protect our world.  MSN

When I came across this article I almost laugh. Anyone wants to offer an explanation? In Singapore, the job of monitoring gas leaks is the responsibility of the Ministry of Environment. In bankrupt America, bankrupt in the sense of clueless, running out of idea, NASA has lost its plot. NASA was created to explore the universe, not to smell farts.

After the hoax of a century in its Hollywood produced moon landing, NASA tried desperately to make it real, that they could really land on the moon, to cover up the hoax, but failed, NASA eventually gave up the idea of going to the moon. So the Americans started to invent more horror stories of aliens on the moon and warning the world not to go to the moon again and closed the chapter on moon exploration.

Now you get the idea why 'NASA Is Monitoring Methane Leaks From Space?' The simple answer, NASA has nothing useful to do. It has spent its limited fundings on peering at the telescope and fabricating pictures of the universe almost daily to show the world that it is still around. Since it has abandoned all hopes of going to the moon, and the picnic to the ISS is coming to an end when the ISS has to be closed down, or it would collapse on its own, all its parts are breaking down, what else can NASA do? Now it is trying to find something useful to do on earth, like smelling the air for methane.

NASA is a joke. It should have been closed down decades ago. Anyway, it would not exist for long if there is no more funding coming from Washington. Elon Musk, if he is still in DOGE, would soon turn his attention to NASA, to sack the whole team of unproductive and clueless administrators.

Marcos turned Philippines into a pariah state

During Duterte's presidency, one of his key tasks was to bring law and order to the Philippines. His main target is the drug industry, run by drug lords and the CIA. The drug operators were ruthless and did not respect the law and would kill the police and drug enforcers. Duterte's tough approach to these dangerous criminals did brought law and order to the Philippines, curtailing the drug industry and with the police and drug enforcers doing their job with more confidence, at least not to be killed.

The kidnapping of Duterte by the criminal ICC, behaving like the mafia, acting like there is no law in the Philippines, openly went to the Philippines airport and snatched the former President of the Philippines, with no one to stop them, is unbelievable, so shameful. The Philippines police and military could not do anything to these criminals committing an outrageous crime against their beloved and well respected former President. Some even worked with the ICC criminals to assist them to kidnap Duterte and helped them to smuggle Duterte out of the Philippines.

Is the Philippines a sovereign state with its own police and military, with its own laws? How could foreign criminals and gangsters conduct such a criminal act in the Philippines as if there is no law, no police, no military and no authority to stop them? And President Marcos could claim innocence, that he had nothing to do with it, did not see it his responsibility to stop the kidnapping of former President Duterte? The criminals could walk freely all over sensitive parts of the Philippines like it was a no man's land and do whatever they want, even flew in their planes to ferry Duterte out of the Philippines.

Are the Pinoys proud of the whole incident? Are they not ashamed for letting their former President to be kidnapped inside the Philippines and taken away by foreign criminal gangs, in broad daylight, under the supervision of their own police and military officers?

That day was the darkest day in the Pinoy history, as dark as the day the previous President Marcos assassinated Aquino in the same airport. And they are now happily reinviting the American forces to reoccupy the American bases they were forced to leave two decades ago. Now the Philippines is again a colonised country of the Americans.

The latest, Imee Marcos, a senator and sister of Marcos, conducted an investigation and found out that the kidnapping of Duterte was a coordinated plan by senators, the courts, military and police. The plan was cooked up months ago, and has nothing to do with her brother, Marcos. Marcos is innocent, not involved. The Pinoys would believe this is the truth.