Can confirm the shitlibs in my family are in shambles. Definitely a "I told you so" moment.
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X isn't the real world. There are real people but also political "bots" (prob some dude in africa, india etc) from the libs and from maga. Now, only maga side is left in that context. It is not only the US government that sponsor bots like NAFO, but the political groups and rich pacts do as well. For example, i came into contact with one of the "democrats are ruining my city of san francisco" bot... but replying to that bot, i could tell that its only knowledge of sf was just from media.
Also, America is mostly boring and really isolating so they end up picking sides/college teams/sports team/concole/dc vs marvel etc as their identity to fight and argue over. You got some general keyboard warriors there as well
The normies are hanging out at like tik tok, instagram, facebook and even reddit.
I wonder how many people in the US government actually know what the tariff rate is.
Because this is really something customs officials should know, not something only known by "WH officials"
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Oh, another "win?" Cus Trump was supposed to stop Vietnam from displacing American power over the globe right? Another rat-skull-for-a-bear-pelt cope from 75 IQ Trump supporters.
No other president would have wanted to trade such an unprecendented amount of disrespect and disdain over the whole world for the meager amounts of things that these small countries can be bullied into buying. And that's to the backdrop of a reduction in all the things they used to voluntarily buy. What a salesman Trump is; this is what "winning" looks like to Trump supporters... in a trade war with China LOL:
For trade, 125%, 145% or 1,488% makes no difference. All of these are prohibitive levels. With such rates, it makes little sense to import goods from China. Once the rate threshold reaches a prohibitive tariff level, the rates lose their effect.
I can't really be mad at the people you described in your family because I guarantee you that people like that exist and live among many Chinese families, especially in the West (not surprisingly), but also within mainland China itself.The reason for this is a lack of interest in history and sometimes a deliberate, self-imposed amnesia about the traumas that the Chinese people and China have experienced throughout their modern (PRC) existence - I am referring to people that have left mainland China living in the west. This is due to the pain and shame, which result in a lack of confidence in Chinese culture and identity.Despite China's rapid ascent—which many Chinese people overlook the incredible fact that this rise is unprecedented in modern history—there are persistent fears and concerns about the fragility of these gains, worrying that they could easily be taken away by Western powers. Some of us will even blame the government itself and the very system that many Chinese have benefited from as the main cause of the struggle in the first place.
Some will lament that if only China would agree to the U.S. demands, it would never have come to this. If only the CCP did not exist, all of these issues wouldn't be this acute. If only China gave up its illusion of taking Taiwan back, it wouldn't be experiencing this dilemma.
Having said that, I can't just blindly blame the folks who harbor such views and label them as nothing but self-hating sellouts. In my view, this reaction is part of human nature—the need to survive out of pure self-interest. Not to mention, it's the most basic reaction when we are confronted with danger: to either fight or flee.Most people aren't wedded to an ideology, especially when they have already mentally and physically resigned themselves to another country and culture for decades.
A decision that was never taken lightly or made on a whim. Let's not forget that today's China isn't the China of 20 years ago. Heck, in the China of the 1980s, the most readily available mode of transportation was a bicycle!
Decades ago, China did not have the skilled labor force, the technology, or the infrastructure to make such a transition. Selling to the US enabled it to buy / transfer technology, train up its work force, and build infrastructure.
Also, China is ultimately a resource poor country, particularly in farm land (where it just has 8% of the world's farm land vs. 20% of the population two decades ago) and oil (which was much more important two decades ago than today).
Without exporting to the US, it would've been much harder for China to develop since the global resources (and technologies) trade was in dollars. We should not pretend otherwise. China doesn't exist in a vacuum - it has had to compete with other developing countries like India, Indonesia, Brazil, etc. for investments and trade. If those countries sold to the US but China didn't, they would've had a huge advantage in the catch up race and may have displaced China in the manufacturing competition.