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

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.

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

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

 

 

 

 

26 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

And there you are wrong.

 

How so?

52 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

How so?

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

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

 

this hurts.

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

51 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

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

 

You can't back up your point?

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!

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.

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 ...

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 !

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. 

5 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

 

Lemme guess................China Observer?  China Insight?

Both funded by USAID Falun Gong.

 

If you search out disinformation, you will find it.

3 hours ago, sharot724 said:

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

 

this hurts.

 

But I saw videos on YouTube showing fields of abandoned EV's as far as the eye could see!  That means their economy is cratering.

 

Oh, and ghost cities!  They have cities with ghosts!  Must be the ten million missing cellphone subscribers along with the thousands of dead slave laborers who perished before Foxconn installed suicide nets!

 

We're winning, dammit!

Winning!

2 hours ago, BLMFem said:

You can't stop trolling?

 

Why is that trolling?  You should always be able to explain your point (particularly when that point is "you're wrong"), or provide evidence to support your claim.  If you cannot do that, then you shouldn't make the comment in the first place, as you show that you are either not genuinely knowledgeable or are unwilling to engage with someone on the topic in an adult way.  Either of which will make people not take you seriously.

6 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

 

You can't back up your point?

No, I refuse to spell out the same over and over again for each poster who either can't be bothered to enhance their knowledge by themselves or is just trolling. 

24 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

No, I refuse to spell out the same over and over again for each poster who either can't be bothered to enhance their knowledge by themselves or is just trolling. 

 

Then you are assumed to be trolling, if you are unable to explain why I am wrong.  🤷‍♂️

3 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

Then you are assumed to be trolling, if you are unable to explain why I am wrong.  🤷‍♂️

BLFMEM has told you in detail already.

Goodbye, have enough of you trolling, on ignore.

9 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Goodbye, have enough of you trolling, on ignore.

 

"Anyone who criticises me is trolling, then I don't have to take those criticisms seriously."  🙃

Trump keeps on winning:

Huawei’s New AI Chip Just Declared War on NVIDIA — And It’s Winning in China

 

Foreign Central Banks Are Loading Up on T-Bills, Selling U.S. Bonds

 

Only joking of course and his whole story about others ripping off the USA is BS too:

 

Trump thinks ‘cheaters’ are hurting us on trade, but here’s how the U.S. employs a number of sneaky ‘non-tariff barriers’ to repel foreign goods

 

USA just can't make enough goods people want to buy

This Chinese export got through

Chinese diplomat Zhang Zhishen shared an image of Leavitt wearing the dress on X/Twitter along with screenshots from Weibo of users discussing it as it was recognised by one of the factory’s employees.

Alongside the images, they wrote: “Accusing China is business. Buying China is life.

 

Zhang Zhisheng 张志昇

@salahzhang

1 hour ago, bannork said:

This Chinese export got through

Chinese diplomat Zhang Zhishen shared an image of Leavitt wearing the dress on X/Twitter along with screenshots from Weibo of users discussing it as it was recognised by one of the factory’s employees.

Alongside the images, they wrote: “Accusing China is business. Buying China is life.

 

Zhang Zhisheng 张志昇

@salahzhang

Well, if she's going to wear only apparel made in America she might need to consider hazmat suits. Or a space suit.