President Trump: U.S. Will Impose Additional 50% Tariffs on China Effective April 9TH if China Does Not Withdraw 34% Increase by Tomorrow
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He should do it anyway.
WE GOT HIM NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U R A moron
This is Trump deciding he should determine the policies of foreign countries too. If a country retaliates against his tariffs, he threatens to double them. He is still an uneducated, childish goon, whose biggest move is bullying. I will,raise tariffs against you and you are not allowed to respond in a way I do not approve. Trump is a bad, bad joke.
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Exactly!
Xi and China have been planning for this.
Trump doesn’t have the leverage he thinks he does.
How China plans to bounce back from Trump’s tariffs
A meeting between Xi Jinping and 40 leaders of multinational companies reveals Beijing’s larger plan to sustain economic growth
www.independent.co.uk
“Xi is hoping to build on an anti-Trump bounce and inspire businesses to back Beijing as some signs emerged that China’s economy was doing a little better than expected in early 2025. Industrial production went up by 5.9 per cent in January and February. Credit growth, which measures the amount of loans banks give out, also appears to be picking up, suggesting that businesses might be growing in China.”
How China plans to bounce back from Trump’s tariffs
A meeting between Xi Jinping and 40 leaders of multinational companies reveals Beijing’s larger plan to sustain economic growth
www.independent.co.uk
“Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged foreign business executives to defend trade and said globalization was unstoppable, drawing an implicit contrast between Beijing’s policies and President Trump’s tariffs.”
gfm7175
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How so? China can respond however they wish to respond.
Precisely. Trump is in the stronger position in this scenario. Since China is dependent upon our food, China will eventually cave.
It's called using leverage to the USA's benefit.
WRONG. It's more like "I'm sick of you taking advantage of the USA, so now tariffs are going to increase to the point that the USA is not being taken advantage of anymore".
WRONG. They can respond however they wish to respond, but they are not free from any and all future responses to their response (or from any and all consequences of said response).
Nah... that's YOU, Nordy.
Never make a threat that the other party cannot comply with. It forces you to either carry through with the threat, or chicken out on the threat.
So trump made this threat at 11:14 AM DC time, which is 11:14 PM Beijing time, so 46 minutes before tomorrow. The Chinese leadership is not going to be woken up over a Tweet, so they will not even see this until the morning. They would have to make a decision fully in one business day, when it usually takes them a week to do anything.
So their obvious reaction is to ignore trump, which is exactly what they did.
100% tariff is basically a trade embargo...so no.