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Trump will win this second trade war. China is in too much trouble. The US has more bullets.

All good experience. One would expect suitable mechanisms in place with the next deal to ensure China keeps the terms of the agreement. Now that the diabolical promise breaking practices of the Chinese are well known.

Only 400 billion, lol. But you're right, Trump lost the first trade war. China just went via Mexico and Canada. Impossible now.

She actually did that with me. Literally begged on her knees not to throw her out. Kissed my feet. Submitted sexually in many ways. Just so she could stay in Cayman with me. All of for nothing in the end. Poor girl.

They will want allies to come to the table and negotiate good deals with America. Other countries will still have to deal with the tariffs. Clearly it's working so far, Vietnam, Japan many have signalled they will negotiate.

What he is doing carries an element of risk and some people have and will get hurt. However, Bessent and the other guy have published a paper on reshaping global trade. The aim is clear. Devalue the dollar and still keep the dollar as reserve currency. It's a genius move if they pull it off.

Lol, another opinion piece. From MSN no less. China is going down, on her knees. China will kneel before America. And beg for mercy.

Together with another guy, he's the main architect of Trump's economic policy. This tariff episode is just phase 1. Phase 2 will see negotiations and a new Bretton Woods reshaped in America's favour. What they are doing is very clever.

You don't understand economics at all, if China tried to sell off its horde of more than $760 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds, which would drive up interest rates in the U.S., that would also increase the value of yuan, making Chinese exports even more expensive. Again, that’s the opposite of what China wants.

Trump has singlehandedly reshaped global trade in his image. All on the back of the awesome strength of the American economy. But people like you cannot see the big picture. This is just phase 1 in a major plan that will result in a new Bretton Woods accord. Trump and his team are playing 4 dimensional chess whilst you lot are still listening to Taylor Swift.

' Lol, the trust in the almighty Dollar will never disappear, because it is built on the solid fundamentals on the world's strongest economy. Not on whether you like Trumps economic policies which you can't understand anyway. The Dollar will always be trusted. It will always be the Reserve currency. However, Trump WANTS to devalue the Dollar. Some people are too thick to understand this.

The tariffs are on all countries, because the first trade war allowed China to evade tariffs by going via Mexico or Canada. Now China does not have that option anymore. Trump learnt from the first trade war. No escape for China this time.

Lol, it's not "hero worship", it's just the truth. Bessent was a hedge fund manager who worked with Soros. He was part of the team that came up with the trade that broke the bank of England. He lectured economics at Yale. These are just the facts. Though I realise you leftists need to deny reality now, you should still recognize it. Any one of Trump's economic team has more brains than the entire anti-Trump brigade on Asean put together.

Absolutely correct, it is actually "deflation", far more dangerous than inflation. The Chinese economy has a myriad of problems. A colossus built on feet of clay. Imagine producing so much empty housing that you could house 1.4 billion Chinese all over again, but nobody wants to buy them. They are demolishing these empty condos now to stop the price rot of houses in China.

I actually feel sorry for Trump haters who are not getting it. The tariffs are just phase 1 in a plan, to achieve a new financial world order. One in which the dollar is greatly devalued. That is what Trump wants. Whilst still reserving top reserve currency status. Bessent worked with Soros, he was one of the key architects of the trade that broke the Bank of England. He is not just a hedge fund manager, but lectured on economics at Yale. You guys are completely out of your depth and have no idea whom you're up against and what's going on.

So as we witnessed the awesome power of the US economy, with the greatest politician alive today restructuring global trade AT WILL, the free newspaper CITY AM thinks the dollar is doomed. You can't make it up really.

No. China is an overproduction hub, it is, BY FAR, mostly Chinese companies producing and overproducing and exporting to the US. The Iphones, ok, a few other things, but for the greatest part, these are CHINESE products in the 400 billion USD basket. To pretend those are Iphones, Japanese or Korean cars, is just deluding yourself. The rest of your post is just amateurish red herrings. Things I never said.

Indeed, that was, however, only an opinion piece, and a very poorly written one, which clearly lacked substantive economic insight. One of the worst things the FT has ever published, and thoroughly wrong.

Not at all. EVEN THE CHINESE THEMSELVES HAVE ADMITTED THEY LIED about GDP figures: "Local officials from China’s key Northeast region have reportedly admitted that they faked economic data over the past few years when the real numbers were much lower. Several officials have said they’ve significantly overstated data ranging from fiscal revenue and household income to GDP, and that this was a reason why the drop in the figures appears to have been so dramatic this year, reported China Daily while citing further reports from China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency. “If the past data had not been inflated, the current growth figures would not show such a precipitous fall,” one official was quoted as saying." https://fortune.com/2015/12/14/china-fake-economic-data/

It doesn't bar governments from doingi so really, as we saw with Woodrow Wilson. If governments want to restrict free speech they do it. Even in the US. Aaaaah, when universities restrict free speech it's "legitimate", so the restriction of free speech can be legitimate then? So first you were attacking the restriction on free speech, but now you are defending it? So you're flip flopping basically?

Hahahahaha, a pathetic article from a FREE newspaper with a circulation of 67000. Analyst Shahab Jalinoos? Talk about scraping the barrel. Good luck buying oil in Pounds. Joker.

What you don't realise is that China's overproduction will be a root cause of its downfall. The problem of Chinese overcapacity is real. The capcaity of foreign markets to absorb the giant Chinese overproduction is limited, there is only so much demand for Chinese products. Of course this is a problem not just for exports, in that China will not be able to substitute its 400 billion US market elsewhere so easily, but it is a actually a domestic problem as well. The Chinese have built so many empty condos that they could house 1.4 billion Chinese. As a result the value of homes in China is falling dramatically, and some cities are demolishing these empty condos. How much sense does that make, to build houses and condos that are then just demolished, without earning rent or making profits? If Britain's problem is underproduction, the Chinese problem of overproduction is also a disadvantage. Not an advantage at all times. Trump has chosen an exceptionally favourable time to take on the Chinese economy. Perfect timing.

You have to be a very blinkered leftist not to appreciate the delicious irony of seeing leftists trying to defend universities on the grounds of free speech, when it was these very universities, 350 of them, who adopted "speech codes" to severely restrict free speech at their universities. The irony is just too delicious. You do realise you are invoking the "free speech" defense for institutions who have themselves restricted free speech in the most glaring, and heinous, ways? You probably didn't, but how do you reconcile the 350 universities in the US adopting "speech codes" to restrict free speech, with your free speech defense? Just curious.

By our estimates, China’s GDP growth in 2024 improved modestly to around 2.4% to 2.8%, China’s 2024 claim that GDP growth was on track to meet high targets was impossible to reconcile with increasingly frantic efforts to prop up a flagging economy all year long. Collapsing property construction slowed growth to a crawl in 2022 and 2023, and in 2024 the spillover from real estate sidelined local government investment and consumption as well. By our estimates, China’s GDP growth in 2024 improved modestly to around 2.4% to 2.8%, well below than official claims of nearly 5%. https://rhg.com/research/after-the-fall-chinas-economy-in-2025/ China lies about its GDP figures. Everyone knows it. THE CHINESE THEMSELVES HAVE ADMITTED THEY LIED ABOUT GDP FIGURES: "Local officials from China’s key Northeast region have reportedly admitted that they faked economic data over the past few years when the real numbers were much lower. Several officials have said they’ve significantly overstated data ranging from fiscal revenue and household income to GDP, and that this was a reason why the drop in the figures appears to have been so dramatic this year, reported China Daily while citing further reports from China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency. “If the past data had not been inflated, the current growth figures would not show such a precipitous fall,” one official was quoted as saying." https://fortune.com/2015/12/14/china-fake-economic-data/

The dangers are obvious. Britain would be unable to fund itself at current interest rates in the event of any sudden loss in international confidence, causing the pound to plummet and gilt yields to spike higher. This would in turn further increase the already mountainous servicing costs of the national debt, forcing the Government into deep spending cuts and further tax increases. All manifesto pledges would be shredded as the UK entered a doom loop of economic contraction and ballooning debt servicing costs. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/25/britain-is-on-the-brink-of-a-full-blown-fiscal-crisis/