Which means the next round is going to hurt them hard. Their retaliation covers pretty much everything we now send to China, but Boeing Airplanes and parts. Their economy grinds to a halt if China tariffs and blocks that.
They have nothing else after that to fight back with, other than funding the Democratic Party attacks on Trump, (Which I bet they already are)
We actually don’t need to talk with you.
It’d be faster and in everyone’s mutual interest
Bit, you enjoy that revolution
I don’t think it’s unreasonable what we’re asking for. Put an immediate end to the joint venture rule for foreign companies to do business in China. Joint ventures are euphemism for we’re going to steal your intellectual property blind. Lower your tariffs for manufacturing goods (e.g. cars), if you really want “fair” trade.
I don’t think we can go as far as to demand an end to subsidies because we use these too.
I AM 'holding a knife to your neck'!
Now give me back my wallet!!!
Little dramatic there from the communists.
How do you say “Boo-hoo” in Mandarin? When those thieves pay us a few hundred billion dollars back for stealing our technology, we may ease some of those tariffs.
“It would not be negotiations of equality.””
Sucks to lose, get used to it.
Doing business in China should be an automatic disqualifier for any outfit that wants to do business with the US defense department.
The tech transfer that China demands as part of the deal is ruinous for us.
Add 200 billion more and upgrade it to a machete.
If I’m not mistaken, some Leftist wrote an article recently that the US could never win a trade war with China. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............
Not so much.
They’re screwed. They know it. They’re trying to garner sympathy. Hmmmmm .... just like the Dem’s
That’s a rather large country and sizeable population that is going to go thru some legit turmoil, pretty soon.
We really need an economic divorce, and technology embargo on that communist dictatorship anyhow - not negotiations.
They are not going to voluntarily change their ways - they never were. They are not our friends, they are the largest human rights abusers on Earth.
Free China!
10% can become 25%; then 25% can become 50%; then 50% can become 75% and so on.
Keep the faith, President Trump, we’ve got your back. WE WILL PREVAIL.
Start cutting. China needs a good recession.
We need a tariff on everything from China. Then when we wish we can increase it or decrease it depending on their actions and our desires. Its like training your pet.
The art of the deal - realizing that they need us WAAAAYYY more than we need them...
“Now that the United States has adopted such huge restrictive measures, like holding a knife to someone’s neck, how can negotiations proceed?”
Let’s kick those tariffs up to 25% and add another $200 billion in Chinese imports to the mix.
Then we’ll find out “how can negotiations proceed?”.
China’s only option is to retaliate “via other means”, or succumb. Capitulation is political suicide, both internally and internationally. The “Prime Imperative” in China is no nation can be allowed to protect itself from the economic imperialism and mercantilism of the Chinese regime. There simply must be pressure applied, from some “whole nation” perspective, to force the US to capitulate.
Otherwise we are the first of many dominoes to fall and China will be relegated to regional hegemon status. And once retrenchment starts, economic collapse due to debt deflation will consume them like a funeral fire.
Thank God for DJT at the helm.
The Chinese Communist Party is worried the People will raise up and remove their heads
Lovin’ our POTUS.
Wow. The change in tone is astonishing. The Chinese WERE saying how they can easily win the “trade war” because they could withstand far greater pain. Now, it’s not a “trade war,” it’s a knife to their throat.