China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies

[SunnyinBangrak]

Just been watching Youtube vids from Shanghai, loads of shops and restaurants closed, supposedly factories too. Cargo ships stuck in port. Looks apocalytpic. Meanwhile Americans might need to pay a few more $$ for nonessential disposible garbage. 

#winning

[FritsSikkink]

On 4/14/2025 at 9:04 AM, BangkokReady said:

 

I would imagine China needs to sell them more than the US needs to buy them.

And there you are wrong.

[SLOWHAND225]

On 4/14/2025 at 8:09 AM, placeholder said:

No. The fault is Trump's. If so many of us here on aseannow.com could see the threat posed by this dearth, what excuse has he got?

You're so arrogant that you think you know better whats going on than the people actually involved ?

Are you in the inner circle of people involved  ?  Nice, so tell us about the conversations you've been having with them.  I can't wait to hear from someone like you, the one on the inside, you know, someone who knows more than the people actually involved.

Please enlighten us oh great one. lol

[Eloquent pilgrim]

42 minutes ago, Gweiloman said:

I know so from my various contacts in various ASEAN governments. You are obviously ignorant about statecraft whereby what politicians say don’t always reflect what they think. Not surprising, given your number of inaccurate posts over multiple subjects. 
 

As for Japan, I don’t care as I don’t consider them as being in the South China Sea and they have no say.

 

So, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei and Japan, all state publicly that they are extremely unhappy with China’s claim of the nine-dash-line, and some of them with the accompanying harassment of their fishing industries, but you have insider knowledge that they are only kidding and are really happy with Chinese expansionism.

 

…… you seem to have morphed into a total fantasist

 

 

 

 

[BangkokReady]

26 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

And there you are wrong.

 

How so?

[FritsSikkink]

52 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

How so?

Google rare earth and its use, then you will understand.

[sharot724]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-already-lost-trade-war-135941512.html

 

this hurts.

[PomPolo]

I am sure Trump has already been discussing with his brainless advisors about putting the tariffs up to 300% already

[BangkokReady]

51 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

Google rare earth and its use, then you will understand.

 

You can't back up your point?

[BLMFem]

2 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Just been watching Youtube vids from Shanghai, loads of shops and restaurants closed, supposedly factories too. Cargo ships stuck in port. Looks apocalytpic. Meanwhile Americans might need to pay a few more $$ for nonessential disposible garbage. 

#winning

Well, that does it for me! Sunny has been watching some YT vids and apparently China has experienced the apocalypse while the US is cruising along. So glad I didn't miss that post - so glad!

[BLMFem]

50 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

You can't back up your point?

You can't stop trolling?

 

PS. On the off chance that you really don't get that wrt rare earths the US needs China but not the other way around you really need to go back to school.

[Ben Zioner]

On 4/15/2025 at 3:40 PM, beautifulthailand99 said:

I'm in the market for a new phone and pc so I'm hoping a lot of stock will be dumped in Europe when the price gets too high in the US.

Good idea but ...

[beautifulthailand99]

11 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

Good idea but ...

Thta's a 4.5% drop in a week - but then I'm in the UK in sterling. The world and their dogs want to get out of dollars into a.n.other safe haven(s) - gold is the most obvious one and it's going great guns. The Trump Tax is real and growing bit like the pound and Brexit it plunged 17% and quickly - the dollar will probably be slower but I suspect the eventual devaluation could be similar. The teflon baht of course like the Swiss France might appreciate more than trend just because it is regarded as 'safe. Trump and his inner cronies of course will be on the right side of any trades. He has the keys to the bank !

[Ben Zioner]

1 hour ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Thta's a 4.5% drop in a week - but then I'm in the UK in sterling. The world and their dogs want to get out of dollars into a.n.other safe haven(s) - gold is the most obvious one and it's going great guns. The Trump Tax is real and growing bit like the pound and Brexit it plunged 17% and quickly - the dollar will probably be slower but I suspect the eventual devaluation could be similar. The teflon baht of course like the Swiss France might appreciate more than trend just because it is regarded as 'safe. Trump and his inner cronies of course will be on the right side of any trades. He has the keys to the bank !

Bought THB 1M at about 34, thinking of buying another million, but I don't think THB is as safe as you think, there could be another meltdown here as well.