About darned time, someone stood for America.
It has been an entire generation and a half, since anyone has done this.
Anyone.
Republicans. Democrats. Everyone has been sold out.
Every single person.
About darned time, we had someone in charge who is for America again.
Well apparently it is en vogue to stand up to China now. Even Chuck Schumer is carrying the torch on this issue.
Leave it to Reuters/Yahoo are dangerously deranged with hyperbolism.
Us media is dependent on advertixements of Chinese imports.
‘this will be the death of US “news”.
Language!
We import a lot more of their junk. I do not believe their imports are as trivial as much of ours are. Even their steel tends to be lower grade than it is sold as.
Apparently the article title has changed.
I did not, write that title.
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Where did you get that title?
As tariffs strike, China blames U.S. for ‘largest-scale trade war’
True title
The Presstitutes are declaring a war that doesn’t exist. They are taking the side of out trading pardners in order to try to heap discredit on the president.
The oly good Reuters is a dead Reuters
Go Trump.
About darned time, someone stood for America.
It has been an entire generation and a half, since anyone has done this.
Anyone.
Republicans. Democrats. Everyone has been sold out.
Every single person.
About darned time, we had someone in charge who is for America again.
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Worth repeating. I was going to post something - but you already said it perfectly.
Amen!
“China would never start a trade war but if any party resorts to an increase of tariffs then China will take measures in response to protect development interests.”
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Bullcrap! China has been engaging in trade and economic warfare against the US for decades.
So let me get this straight. China has been manipulating it’s currency so we export very little to it. Now it plans to place tariffs on our goods to punish us for doing the same to it’s goods. Of what benefit would that be, when we sell so little to it? 25% import fees on nothing is still nothing. Just how much do they think this will reduce our exports by? LOL
Placing tariffs on their goods when we import so much from China, now there’s a bunch of merchandise that will be impacted. And it’s about time.
The Chinese imported about $130 billion in US goods in 2017. We imported about $505 billion of their goods. Methinks they have the most to lose, and really, the end goal isn’t a trade war. A trade war isn’t even wanted, but it may very well be needed to force the Chinese to trade more equitably with the USA. I don’t actually blame them for looking out for China. I DO blame US politicians for not looking out for the USA—until Trump.
Now...please correct me if I’m wrong.
The Chinese are known as extremely shrewd businessmen, and of course some of their practices are a bit one-sided if not unethical. However when most people in the US take a stroll around their home and look at the little tags on the bottom of most anything they pick up, it says “Made in China”, or some equivalent. If a lot of those items from China suddenly have a 25% tariff doesn’t that mean those costs are passed off to the consumer? Collectively, that amounts to a huge “tax” on a huge percentage of goods bought in most American stores.
The US isn’t in an industrial position to suddenly replace billions of dollars worth of Chinese “junk” with American-made products. People in the US will continue to buy Chinese products because they can’t get them anywhere else. At least not immediately.
How is a 15, 50 or 100 billion dollar tariff hurting China when it is being paid by American consumers?
First off....
Where the heck is the information supportive of this pronouncement? I went on to the .gov website and there are no changes. Where are these thousands of articles on a trade war getting their information on the 500+ articles that are going to have tariffs?
Please can some one give me a link to the list of tariffs? I am really interested to find out what Americans will have to pay more for in the next few years while America tools up some more factories.
Meanwhile...
Interspersed in the tsunami of tariff articles (all without sources, mind you) are a multitude of articles talking about Chinese war preparations. All of which come from unnamed officials, unnamed sources, experts, advisers, and confidential sources. They refer to “secret” memos and studies.
What it is?
After nearly two years of Russia, Russia, Russia? Now it is China China China! Man can’t we ever get a break?
Enough already!
FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS
Can some freeper please give me a link to the implemented listing of all the 500+ tariffs that are now, according to the articles, placed on China. I cannot find them. I have looked. This list apparently does not exist?
And while I am at it, can someone point to an article that has substance and not developed by a think tank, a analysist, or comprised around an unnamed source...
Thank you.
Free Republic was started, and those of us who have been here from the start has used this as a place to do hard checking and dig into the issues. Now, it just seems that FR has devolved into just another echo chamber that parrots the nonsense that is spoon fed to us though big media.