China has warned it will hit back at countries that make deals with the US that hurt Beijing's interests, as the trade war between the world's two biggest economies threatens to drag in other nations.

 

The comments come after reports that the US plans to pressure governments to restrict trade with China in exchange for exemptions to US tariffs.

The Trump administration has started talks with trading partners over tariffs, with a Japanese delegation visiting Washington last week and South Korea is set to start negotiations this week.

Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has imposed hefty taxes on Chinese imports, while other countries have also been hit with levies on their goods.

"Appeasement cannot bring peace, and compromise cannot earn one respect," a Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesperson said, external.

"China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China's interests. If this happens, China will never accept it and will resolutely take countermeasures".

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2708dl9n1o

 

China is right. Give in and trump will come back for more.

Something else to worry trump

 

https://theconversation.com/taiwan-dominates-the-worlds-supply-of-computer-chips-no-wonder-the-us-is-worried-188242

 

And what a surprise (not). As factories fall silent with cargo ships stuck in port China panics and starts wigging out.

 

Funny how leftists have such love for China and such hatred for the USA. China is right bla bla. China could easily have wiped out mankind with their lableaks and not allowing investigations, and still the forum left take their side when the US makes sincere efforts to balance the defecit. Quite sickening.

It looks like China has beaten the US in the tariff war and dictates its terms.
Z guys always read with interest about the successes of China, Iran and Democratic Korea.

China's manufacturing output is double that of the USA. In terms of domestic demand, the Chinese middle class is bigger than the entire US population.

 

Approximately 70% of economies in the world trade more with China than America.

 

In terms of GDP, the US is bigger. In terms of Purchasing Power Parity ( PPP) China is bigger.

 

I am Australian. China does not apply tariffs to Australia. The US does, despite having a positive trade balance with Australia.

 

I would like an American to explain why we should continue to ally ourselves with the USA, because we certainly are not being treated as one.

45 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

And what a surprise (not). As factories fall silent with cargo ships stuck in port China panics and starts wigging out.

 

Funny how leftists have such love for China and such hatred for the USA. China is right bla bla. China could easily have wiped out mankind with their lableaks and not allowing investigations, and still the forum left take their side when the US makes sincere efforts to balance the defecit. Quite sickening.

"....the US makes sincere efforts to balance the defecit"

 

Oh, is THAT what he's doing?! Well thank you for explaining that, because based on all the flip-flopping, the u-turns, the 360s and other head-spinning moves it looked like he was auditioning for a Chinese acrobat act.

1 hour ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

And what a surprise (not). As factories fall silent with cargo ships stuck in port China panics and starts wigging out.

Trump really expected China to panic. But the Chinese behaved very self-confidently. What was America's miscalculation in the trade war? In that China understands that this whole show about the US no longer supporting Ukraine is just an attempt to transform a proxy war (US->ProxyUkraine->Russia) into a double proxy war (US->ProxyEU->ProxyUkraine->Russia) without changing the essence of what is happening. And this means that the slightest diversion of US forces from Ukraine to China will mean an immediate restoration of the Soviet Union and a strong geopolitical defeat for the US. Therefore, China is behaving very brazenly, understanding that the US will not be able to respond.

1 minute ago, zmisha said:

Trump really expected China to panic. But the Chinese behaved very self-confidently. What was America's miscalculation in the trade war? In that China understands that this whole show about the US no longer supporting Ukraine is just an attempt to transform a proxy war (US->ProxyUkraine->Russia) into a double proxy war (US->ProxyEU->ProxyUkraine->Russia) without changing the essence of what is happening. And this means that the slightest diversion of US forces from Ukraine to China will mean an immediate restoration of the Soviet Union and a strong geopolitical defeat for the US. Therefore, China is behaving very brazenly, understanding that the US will not be able to respond.

Did you even notice this thread title? China threatening other nations that take up the demand. Are they threatening out of love or fear? Please think for yourself in this matter.

1 minute ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

China threatening other nations that take up the demand. 

Exactly. This is what I call "China is behaving very brazenly"
5-10 years ago, in the same situation, China would have simply silently agreed to the US conditions. And that would be the end of the trade war.

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

China's manufacturing output is double that of the USA. In terms of domestic demand, the Chinese middle class is bigger than the entire US population.

 

Approximately 70% of economies in the world trade more with China than America.

 

In terms of GDP, the US is bigger. In terms of Purchasing Power Parity ( PPP) China is bigger.

 

I am Australian. China does not apply tariffs to Australia. The US does, despite having a positive trade balance with Australia.

 

I would like an American to explain why we should continue to ally ourselves with the USA, because we certainly are not being treated as one.

As an American I can firmly recommend that you cease being the American ally. Instead join with China... I am sure your countrymen are dying to learn Chinese and allow their people to take over control and to dictate terms to you rather than offer negotiation... Jeez, the Chinese are already circling your country to find ways to undermine your communications and to make plans to take your country anyway. Inviting them in would save lives but take all freedoms from you. 

57 minutes ago, thesetat said:

As an American I can firmly recommend that you cease being the American ally. Instead join with China... I am sure your countrymen are dying to learn Chinese and allow their people to take over control and to dictate terms to you rather than offer negotiation... Jeez, the Chinese are already circling your country to find ways to undermine your communications and to make plans to take your country anyway. Inviting them in would save lives but take all freedoms from you. 

Deflecting much? Australia runs a deficit with the USA and Trump is imposing tariffs on them anyway. Not a way to win allies.

3 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

And what a surprise (not). As factories fall silent with cargo ships stuck in port China panics and starts wigging out.

 

Funny how leftists have such love for China and such hatred for the USA. China is right bla bla. China could easily have wiped out mankind with their lableaks and not allowing investigations, and still the forum left take their side when the US makes sincere efforts to balance the defecit. Quite sickening.

 

Yes.

And funny how the leftists were saying Harris would win, and by a landslide.

 

Therefore; it would be best for all concerned to wait another two weeks, maybe three, before making any firm predictions.

 

4 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Yes.

And funny how the leftists were saying Harris would win, and by a landslide.

 

Therefore; it would be best for all concerned to wait another two weeks, maybe three, before making any firm predictions.

 

Who were these leftists saying Harris would win by a landslide. Stop making things up.

The paper tiger is flapping with panic already?

 

Maybe they heard how Vietnam was offering the US to stop Chinese passthrough exports?

 

Either way, clearly the Chinese are very afraid of what's coming.

 

How long before China folds, gets on its knees and begs for negotiations?

Just now, Cameroni said:

How long before China folds, gets on its knees and begs for negotiations?

How long before Trump China folds, gets on its knees and begs for negotiations?

1 minute ago, rough diamond said:

How long before Trump China folds, gets on its knees and begs for negotiations?

 

Too late.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-begging-china-deal-over-163200207.html

 

Trump Is Begging China to Make a Deal Over Tariffs

1 minute ago, rough diamond said:

How long before Trump China folds, gets on its knees and begs for negotiations?

 

Trump is already offering negotiations because he knows he will negotiate from a position of strength. It is the Chinese who are reticent to come to the table, because they know they can only lose, because they are in a much weaker position.

 

 

3 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Trump is already offering negotiations because he knows he will negotiate from a position of strength. It is the Chinese who are reticent to come to the table, because they know they can only lose, because they are in a much weaker position.

 

 

There is this strange notion that because the US is buying and China is selling, that puts the US in a stronger position. Because of Chinese dominance in manufacturiing there isn't anywhere else to go for a lot of the stuff that China makes. Not just finished products but intermediate inputs as well.

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

There is this strange notion that because the US is buying and China is selling, that puts the US in a stronger position. Because of Chinese dominance in manufacturiing there isn't anywhere else to go for a lot of the stuff that China makes. Not just finished products but intermediate inputs as well.

 

Of course China is in a weaker position because China hardly imports any US products, so its retaliation is  much less significant than America's tariffs. 

 

In short, the US can hurt the Chinese a lot more than China can hurt Americans.

 

The Chinese know this. That's why they are in a much weaker position to negotiate and reticent to come to the table. They know they will be savaged in negotiations. Because they don't have the cards.

3 hours ago, zmisha said:

And this means that the slightest diversion of US forces from Ukraine to China will mean an immediate restoration of the Soviet Union and a strong geopolitical defeat for the US.

 

Kool Aid is an American product.

15 minutes ago, rough diamond said:

How long before Trump China folds, gets on its knees and begs for negotiations?

 

Oh, is it time for a visit from Tel Aviv again?

1 minute ago, Cameroni said:

 

Of course China is in a weaker position because China hardly imports any US products, so its retaliation is  much less significant than America's tariffs. 

 

In short, the US can hurt the Chinese a lot more than China can hurt Americans.

 

The Chinese know this. That's why they are in a much weaker position to negotiate and reticent to come to the table. They know they will be savaged in negotiations. Because they don't have the cards.

You have entirely missed the point. You believe that in this situation it's the buyer who holds the advantage. But that only works in a marketplace where the seller has competitors. Now it's true that individual Chinese manufacturers do have competitors. But it's other Chinese manufacturers. So when that whole extraordinary industrial ecosystem is blackballed, it's not the Chinese who will suffer the most. After all, the American share of their exports is less than 14 percent. But where are the Americans going to find these products?

7 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

In short, the US can hurt the Chinese a lot more than China can hurt Americans.

You should ask your American friends - can they find anything in their house without "Made in China" stamp. So angry China = Americans lost 99% of what they buy every day.  An unimaginable disaster.

1 minute ago, Cameroni said:

Of course China is in a weaker position because China hardly imports any US products, so its retaliation is  much less significant than America's tariffs. 

 

That is some strange logic.

So because their population is less prone to the effect of tariffs, they are considered weaker?

China exports to the US accounts for about 14% of their total exports. Other countries are also importing less from the US because Trump is bullying them, so they have to get their imports elsewhere. Maybe China?

In short, Trump is isolating the US from the rest of the world, and makes the US population suffer.

For now his maga crowd has only see figures mentioned, but soon they will experience the effects of the tariffs. Let's see how long they stay happy

1 hour ago, thesetat said:

Jeez, the Chinese are already circling your country to find ways to undermine your communications and to make plans to take your country anyway.

 

Is that the three little boats that never got closer than 250 nautical miles from Australia?

 

Whatever happened to "Freedom of Navigation" under the rules-based international order?

 

Shirley, it was a thing when Australia and New Zealand sent their warships through the Taiwan Province Strait last year.

15 minutes ago, placeholder said:

You have entirely missed the point. You believe that in this situation it's the buyer who holds the advantage. But that only works in a marketplace where the seller has competitors. Now it's true that individual Chinese manufacturers do have competitors. But it's other Chinese manufacturers. So when that whole extraordinary industrial ecosystem is blackballed, it's not the Chinese who will suffer the most. After all, the American share of their exports is less than 14 percent. But where are the Americans going to find these products?

 

That's not the most relevant issue. The most relevant issue is that China is about to lose 400 billion USD worth of market share. Whereas America is not losing very much at all from Chinese tariffs.

 

As Germany showed when it replaced 94 per cent of Russian oil imports with alternative suppliers from Canada to Norway, it is always possible to find alternative suppliers. Including for rare earths, btw, which can be recycled.

 

Clearly it is China that will suffer the most, 400 billion USD is not chump change to an economy that is already in trouble.

15 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

That is some strange logic.

So because their population is less prone to the effect of tariffs, they are considered weaker?

China exports to the US accounts for about 14% of their total exports. Other countries are also importing less from the US because Trump is bullying them, so they have to get their imports elsewhere. Maybe China?

In short, Trump is isolating the US from the rest of the world, and makes the US population suffer.

For now his maga crowd has only see figures mentioned, but soon they will experience the effects of the tariffs. Let's see how long they stay happy

 

It is your logic that is very strange. "Because their population is less prone to the effects of tariffs they are considered weaker?" What??? No dude, because the Chinese are MORE prone to the effects of tariffs, because they export more, that is why they are weaker. It's not rocket science.

1 hour ago, thesetat said:

As an American I can firmly recommend that you cease being the American ally. Instead join with China... I am sure your countrymen are dying to learn Chinese and allow their people to take over control and to dictate terms to you rather than offer negotiation... Jeez, the Chinese are already circling your country to find ways to undermine your communications and to make plans to take your country anyway. Inviting them in would save lives but take all freedoms from you. 

As an American, your egregious arrogance is the reason many Australians question whether an ally who cuts and runs from multiple conflicts when a fickle public gets tired is worth having.

 

You lost in Vietnam. You lost in Iraq. You lost in Afghanistan. You are hanging Ukraine out to dry. As an ally, you're not worth p!ssing on.

 

FYI, 5.5% of the Australian population is Chinese. They are probably one of the most law-abiding and hard-working racial groups, but then we don't share your bigotry and racism.

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

They are probably one of the most law-abiding

 

Yes, that's what Chinese are known for the world over. Sticklers for rules they are. Put the Swiss to shame.