Todays Tariff News

[Yagoda]

The China shills and sock puppets are gonna thumbs down this one as fast as they can get all the Emojinauts on their email chain LOL

 

https://nypost.com/2025/05/03/opinion/despite-their-denials-china-is-losing-the-tariffs-war/

 

"Beijing officials continue to bluster in public, echoing Wang Qishan, the former vice president of China and a close ally of Xi Jinping, who says: “We are not afraid of a trade war with the US. The Chinese people can survive an entire year eating nothing but grass.”

 

Bet ya the guys in the Politburo dont eat grass, LOL

 

Hey, btw, how is the stock market doing?

[RayC]

4 hours ago, Yagoda said:

The China shills and sock puppets are gonna thumbs down this one as fast as they can get all the Emojinauts on their email chain LOL

 

https://nypost.com/2025/05/03/opinion/despite-their-denials-china-is-losing-the-tariffs-war/

 

"Beijing officials continue to bluster in public, echoing Wang Qishan, the former vice president of China and a close ally of Xi Jinping, who says: “We are not afraid of a trade war with the US. The Chinese people can survive an entire year eating nothing but grass.”

 

Bet ya the guys in the Politburo dont eat grass, LOL

 

Hey, btw, how is the stock market doing?

 

It's an bias opinion piece written by a neo-conservative, China hawk which is devoid of any empirical evidence. Apart from that it's an excellent piece of journalism.

 

On the positive side, I do like the word, 'Emojinauts'. Congratulations for coming up with that.

[Yagoda]

3 hours ago, RayC said:

devoid of any empirical evidence.

You sure about that?

[RayC]

38 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

You sure about that?

 

Yep. Nothing in the article supports the headline.

[Yagoda]

12 hours ago, RayC said:

 

Yep. Nothing in the article supports the headline.

Oh. Not this?

https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/business/shipments-from-china-to-drop-by-35-due-to-trump-tariffs-port-of-la-chief/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

 

Or this?

 

https://nypost.com/2025/04/30/business/chinese-factory-activity-plunges-as-trump-tariffs-hammer-bilateral-trade/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

 

Both from the opinion piece.

 

There usually are links in Opinion pieces where the writer supports his arguments with facts. You click on them to see what the opinion writer is relying on. Your welcome.

[RayC]

6 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Oh. Not this?

https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/business/shipments-from-china-to-drop-by-35-due-to-trump-tariffs-port-of-la-chief/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

 

Or this?

 

https://nypost.com/2025/04/30/business/chinese-factory-activity-plunges-as-trump-tariffs-hammer-bilateral-trade/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

 

Both from the opinion piece.

 

There usually are links in Opinion pieces where the writer supports his arguments with facts. You click on them to see what the opinion writer is relying on. Your welcome.

 

My bad.

 

However, following embedded links within the embedded links within the embedded links, etc. you often end up with something that undermines your premise. For example, "Apollo Global Management’s chief economist, Torsten Slok, recently laid out a timeline where lower imports from China leads to layoffs in transportation and retail industries in the U.S., empty shelves and a recession this summer" (Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/port-of-los-angeles-sees-shipping-volume-down-35percent-next-week-as-tariffs-bite.html)

 

Empty shelves and a recession doesn't sound much like "winning" to me - more like verification of the stupidity of Trump's tariff policy - but I guess that depends upon your definition of "winning".

[Lacessit]

The claims from the White House are 200 countries are lining up to cut deals on trade. A pity there are only 195 of them.

 

It's far more likely the countries are re-aligning their trade between themselves, and seeking to minimize their export exposure to American whims. It is what sensible leaders would do.

 

Isolationism won't work too well for America if other countries abandon the greenback as their means of exchange. The USD is the only thing keeping America afloat in its debt swamp.

[Tug]

What has been signed it agreement yet?anything else from this administration is speculation at best.

[MicroB]

Nothing about the Movie tariffs.

 

I guess no more overseas retuns of Cheers, Sanford and Son and The Apprentice. Plus Lord Sugar is now out of work.