Tariff War - Who won?

 Dotard Trump and the Daft Hillbilies and the Rest of the Daft World thought that the UAssA with her 30% against China's 10% is the winner.

Xi main Agenda is that to his exports of their 15% of GDP earnings essiential goods that the Americunts must have moving again.

Why bother their Tariff of 30 or 50% aa long as thd demand is there thr Hillbilies Americunts are going to pay for them NOT China.

China just token 10% is just for show. Maybe on their products that may compete with their local industries and also those fake inflated jack up prices goods that are NOT essiential to them.

China alreday divisified her essiential imports from other countries NOT more from the UAss.

So jus6 kept her Econmy moving especially those that affected the SME companies.

Let the Americunts rejoiced in.their Superiorty complex that they had won the Trade War!

Virgo49

Temporary reprieve in tariff war, but American farmers are still suffering

In the eyes of everyone, on most MSM and social media as well, it was a huge caving in by Trump to China over the tariffs, despite all his gloating about how tough he is acting in the face of falling demand for USA Treasuries, idle cranes at ports, empty shelves at retail outlets on top of truckers and dockworkers being laid off. The strange thing is that job creation, as reported in the USA, is still touted to be bullish, something that defies logic. Anyway, all credit goes to Trump when things look good, but Biden will be blamed when things go bad.
The tariff preoccupation also diverted attention away momentarily from the agricultural sector that suffered a double whammy. The deportation of undocumented immigrants deprived farmers with cheap labor and the gradual loss of the Chinese market is crippling the USA farmers. How desperate they are now is shown by the fraud that is being committed by soya bean farmers in the USA trying to enter the Chinese market by documenting their products as originating from Argentina and Brazil and exporting them to China, hopefully undiscovered. The Brazilians and Argentinians want no part of the scam and are working with the Chinese to stamp out the fraudulent practice.

China just turned away 300,000 tons of soya beans originating from USA which were documented as being from Argentina. This was found out by the Chinese authorities when they tested the protein contents of those beans from USA sources that were found to be dramatically different from those traditionally originating from Argentina. This line of fraud is now being cut off and USA farmers now have no way to export soya beans to China stealthily without being discovered. Brazil and Argentina are not reliant on USA soya beans anyway and will not be a party to the fraud being carried out by the USA. They have a big stake in the Chinese market and are not in any way going to cut their noses to spite their faces.


Anonymous

India Pakistan War - Putting the pieces together to unveil the devil behind

 Top national leaders do not go country hopping for fun unlike little third world leaders when an overseas trip could be a shopping spree in some European cities. JD Vance did not make a trip to India to pay a courtesy call on Modi on taxpayers' money, bringing his whole family along. This apparently superficial social visit hides a very dangerous agenda.

The Americans have been preparing to launch a major war with China. Unfortunately, all their simulated war games in the western Pacific always ended up with China the winner. China's huge landmass, armed forces and war machine, and the logistic challenge posed by the Pacific Ocean were too big an obstacle to overcome. But the Americans must start a war with China very soon. Time is running out as China is growing stronger by the day. The Americans need more assurance and confirmation.

An Indian Pakistanis War could provide a lot of answers the Americans needed and also serve many purposes. India would be a good staging ground to attack China when attacking by sea is unwinnable. And India would be an eager beaver given its hostility against China. India has been praying for the Americans to be their backup in a war against China.

An India Pakistan War would definitely drag in the Chinese. It could be another Ukraine to drain the resources of China, and why not, if India is agreeable to be Ukraine and Modi as the Asian Zelensky, with enough heft to give China all the problems it needs. But there is also an immediate objective, to test the effectiveness of Chinese military hardware that China sent to Pakistan, the tanks, artillery pieces and most important of all, the JF17s and the J10 Cs.

Vance was a special envoy with a special agenda and message for Modi, to start a border war with Pakistan. The Americans knew that Modi would be most willing to do so, with Pakistan its arch enemy, and small enough to be swallowed. And with the recent acquisition of the Rafales, India thinks it is the mightiest military power in South Asia and about time to throw its weight around. And why not, with the Americans fully behind them. India also stands to get the F35s that it wants for a long time to take on China. The Rafales are good enough, but with the F35s, and with the Americans full military might, there is no need to fear China anymore.

The Americans would let a bunch of losers trained by them to attack Indians and called themselves terrorists. India would just point the fingers at Pakistan and attack with no restraints. India is free to unleash whatever they want at the Pakistanis. And the Americans would act innocent, pretend that it is none of their business and turn to look the other way.

The American objectives were many, but the immediate task is to see how the Chinese jets and weapons stand against the Rafales. So, they ordered the Indians and Pakistanis not to fly their F16s at each other. It would be Chinese jets and weapons against the French Rafales. And the Americans would observe the battle with their satellites and whatever visual or listening devices to assess the war. Thus, the Americans were the first to confirm that the Rafales were shot down even before the French or Indians admission. How did the American knew so early and so sure. It's a no brainer question.

Another piece of the puzzle is the call by Trump to both parties to cease fire.  Trump was the first to announce the ceasefire, not Modi. The Americans ordered the war. The Americans cancelled the order. The winner is clear. The Chinese jets walloped the Rafales. And to continue with the war, India would lose more and badly and may pressure the Americans to come in, which is not what the Americans wanted. Vance had earlier been quoted that they did not want to engage in a war they cannot controlled. The Americans got their answers on the effectiveness of the Chinese weapons and quickly walked away like nothing has happened. The Americans have totally nothing to do with the war. No one is wiser. The Pakistanis came out the victor while India has to walk away like a lame duck, still not knowing what the war was all about.

The above is just my extrapolation of the war with the pieces of information available. The Americans would be rethinking their strategy of opening another front from India in a war against China.

PS, comment in RT. 

Tyrone
5/12/2025 at 8:33 AM

Former CIA analyst L.S. Johnson believes that the CIA and MI6 are behind the war between India and Pakistan

See nothing to do with fair reporting to cover up for Indian terrorists.

Vatican City - The world's biggest communist organisation selected its Chief

 The Catholic world was held in suspense for a few weeks after the death of Pope Francis. After a few days of closed down juggling and discussion, the cardinals selected the next Pope among themselves to head the Catholic Church. The whole process was similar to how the communist countries select the Chairman of their parties. Xi Jinping was selected in the same way, though the nomenclature and rituals were different. This is the same form of democratic election as the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church organisation structure and hierarachy are very similar to the Communist Party of China. How a young priest or a cadre is enlisted and rose through the ranks, after serving the lowest parish or commune and get promoted along the way to eventually becoming bishops, cardinals and popes is a mirror image of the CPC where a young cadre moved from village secretary to regional secretary, city and provincial secretary to the politburo and standing committee and eventually the Chairman or the CPC.

The wealth of the Catholic Church is communal wealth, like a communist country. The whole organisation is divided into different levels by region, districts, towns, cities to little villages. And they also have cell groups for discussion and confession, the communist system called it self criticism for admission of errors and mistakes.

Actually, the CPC structure and political processes were copied from the Catholic Church and adapted to run a nation state. Karl Marx, a Jew, got his inspiration from the communes run by Jesus, where their wealth and properties belong to all and shared by all the members of the community. The wealth in the Vatican City is supposed to be the wealth of all the Catholics in the world. Everyone is equal in the eyes of the Lord. Every citizen is equal in the communist system. Of course, some are more equal than others in the CPC and the Catholic Church. Some still enjoy great luxury while some lived the life of poor sisters in India eg Mother Teresa.

Is the Catholic Church system a democratic process? Is the CPC system a democratic process?

Tariff War - Trump caves in. Would it be in time for Christmas?

Trump was gloating just days ago about sticking to his stand of not reducing the 145% tariffs against China. A day or two after, he changed his tune and claimed that 80% would be suitable tariff for Chinese goods and is up to Scott Bessent to do the necessary. Would Scott Bessent really be bold enough to reduce his tariffs from 80% to 30% without his concurrence? Why had Trump suddenly caved in by falling flat for a 30% tariff against China and for 90 days only?
The whole thing about the celebrative mood after the so-called success of the talks over the tariff reduction and the stock market shooting up over the news is a tad too early. This is a tactic I am apt to believe is Trump trying again to manipulate the stock market. Those of the rich friends of Trump and his family would probably have bought into the market during the lows of the past weeks, and with his 65% reduction initially giving a discreet signal that it is going to rise, those cronies and family members will now be reaping in billions. What is going to happen 90 days from now? Another manipulation will come after those billionaires have unloaded their stocks and waiting for another crash to buy in again? Poor guys like us can only watch on the sidelines how the super-rich made their money.

Having said that, I think the Chinese have learned a profound lesson not to trust Trump's tariff reduction too much. The tariff war is not over yet. There are pertinent reasons why Trump's tariffs are crumbling against China. First was the low take-up of the bonds auction that global investors are avoiding, and that is spooking the market. The second reason is that Trump is trying to prevent the empty shelves inside retail outlets from getting worse over the coming days and weeks. He is hoping for more Chinese ships carrying products to dock at USA ports to provide retailers with a lifeline and keep truckers and dockworkers employed. In essence the reduction of tariffs from 145% to 30% had little effect on Chinese manufacturers, as importers and consumers are going to bear the tariffs anyway. This was a question thrown by a congressman who asked Scott Bessent - 'Who is paying the tariffs' and when was cornered he went into a gibberish talking about China manufacturers suffering and avoided the question altogether.

Suffice to say, Chinese manufacturers should be cautious about moving product shipments back to USA ports with the 90 days truce in mind and should continue to do more business with global south countries and forging new markets. China has learned some lessons in the past by keeping away from relying too strongly on particular markets that have an agenda to do China in.

On another note, I wanted to talk about how China discovered USA soya beans using fake country of origin as being grown in Argentina and Brazil, being sold to China under the radar. Argentian and Brazil are furious that the USA is destroying their Chinese market with such underhand tactics. They are now working with China to tackle the problem. This shows the level of desperation that farmers in the USA are doing without the Chinese market.


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