This next story is a natural outcome in the flow of goods. Remember, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the first quarter is a hindsight review. Meaning the information released today was based on activity in January, February and March 2025.
U.S. companies surged the purchasing of import goods, mostly from China, by more than 50% in the first quarter. They were/are building inventory. So, what happens in China starting in April?
Hong Kong, CNN – China’s factory activity contracted at its fastest pace in 16 months in April, as steep US tariffs took a heavy toll on the manufacturing sector, adding urgency to Beijing’s efforts to roll out fresh economic stimulus.
The manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 49.0 in April, the weakest reading since December 2023, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday. A reading below 50 signals a contraction.
Zhao Qinghe, a senior statistician at the NBS, said in a statement that the contraction in factory activity was due to “sharp changes in the external environment and other factors.” (read more)
The U.S. has front-loaded the inventory. So, orders to China drop now. It’s a natural outcome.
We have purchased goods in advance. So, orders to China drop. As a result, the cargo shipments from China to the USA drop in April, May and June.
It’s not that U.S. consumers don’t have the product to purchase; the reality is the product is already here, awaiting purchase.
However, to retain an oppositional perspective toward Donald Trump, the media narrative will not look back at the 50% surge in first quarter purchases; they will only look at the severe drop in second-quarter orders.
With less being ordered, the media will now say the Trump tariffs are hurting consumers, deliveries to ports are substantially less, without ever mentioning the products are already here.
On the upside, there will be a massive rebound in Second Quarter GDP as the imports have dropped; meaning there is less to deduct. However, we will not see that statistically until the last Friday in July.
[…] Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi dismissed calls for a negotiated tariff truce with Washington, saying appeasement in the face of US threats will only “embolden the bully.” His comments on the sidelines of a meeting in Rio de Janeiro echoed the message in a striking social media video shared by his ministry calling on the international community to stand up to America’s “bully” leader.
In an interview that aired on Tuesday, Trump said China “deserved” the 145% tariffs that he imposed, claiming Beijing would absorb them.
“China probably will eat those tariffs. But at 145, they basically can’t do much business with the United States,” he said in an interview with ABC News.
Sad Panda: it’s all part of the economic healing process!
Panda will be happier when his peeps have their nation back and Chairman Chicom is in a dust bin.
The entire world will be happier, and safer, when the entire global Conspiracy, Communist and otherwise, is finally put down.
Topple the Crown
Free the World
Umm…excuse me China…you’re tariffs are showing.
I expect to see big Panda Bear hug from president Xi on President Trump by end of June.
Hoping this all comes together before Fall 2026 — expecting it will.
I have faith that big things are coming. No reason to release everything now. Midterms is the right time to really put the nail in the demoncrat coffin.
The media is lying their asses off on how bad things are. It is bad because of the economic terrorism of Biden, but, Trump IS FIXING IT, YOU SCUMBAG MEDIA!!!!
The media is lying to me?
Nicely done.
Seriously? The US media hadn’t fully told the truth in 20+ years. Everything they do underscores a globalist, leftist anti PDT narrative. Even when confronted with facts opposing their false and misleading BS, they find a way to not report it and twist it into more BS
At least 40-50 years, its just that a few began to wake up and rralise it, 20+ years ago.
Argentina released their Deep State Files on Adolf Hitler living there until 1965 ??? USSA Media zzzzzzz
What Is Reality ??? just What You/Me/We are TOLD IT IS.
I remember the bumper stickers on college campuses during the ’80’s and’90’s “question authority” and thought it ironic that those same foolish students hung on every word of their professors. Many of them never became any wiser.
Od course not. The brainwashing starts in grade school. By the time they get to college most of them have no clue how to “question” anyone, or even recognize authority.
question
Timothy Leary
professors
Timothy Leary
became
Oh Wow.
I will never forget when Walter Cronkite replaced Douglas Edwards. The last of the honest news castors. It truly irritated me when Mr. Edwards died and CBS was the only station not carrying the story. So it has been at least 50 years in my lifetime.
And, Rush Limbaugh helped smoke them out and expose them.
It’s been longer than 20 years.
No. They just missed it.
More and more people can’t make ends meet. Blaming anyone doesn’t address that issue. Results do. So far, we aren’t seeing much in the way of results (gas up $.20 from last week, grocery bills remain high (despite less per package). Interest rates remain high. Small businesses are paying more to make less. That is reality. Having a bunch of millionaires who don’t have to worry about paying their bills or having food on the table sitting around in a room proclaiming stuff isn’t going to fly much longer.
This administration has just passed only 100 days.
The damage Biden Inc has done to this country runs deep and won’t be easily fixed.
We are seniors on fixed incomes so I understand your predicament, especially as I gather you’re in a blue state. Please have patience. I know it’s hard. We’ve all suffered, but I am convinced solid progress has been made, the economic footings for better times have been laid.
Have faith….that old pendulum is on its return journey.
I bet that the COLA for 2026 will seek to address the Zero Usurpation inflation.
No tax on SS is but a down payment on undoing the hit to seniors.
Honestly, Cariad??
I’m betting COLA will be close to zero. We had a couple of those years.
We aren’t taxed on our SS as it doesn’t reach the threshold, so I am expecting as usual that we fall through the cracks of advantages.
Having said that, I am genuinely hoping that Congress follows through and that relief is afforded to those for whom no tax on tips or SS would be a huge gift 🙏🏻
We got screwed on how Biden admin calculated COLA, last decent one was under Trump admin, I think at 5.8% IIRC..
If costs truly are brought down by PDJT’s econimic policies, then the COLA really shouldn’t go up, much at all.
That said, I do wonder how many who are carping and complaining, have long lived just beyond their means, which you CAN do, for years during “good times”.
Me n mind have actually not had to make any ‘sacrifices’ or not buy anything we needed…even during the worst years of Biden.
Because we intentionally live “below our means, and pay no attention to the Joneses, whose whole lifestyle is financed.
I can relate, but this “Jones” isn’t financed, I assure you.
We live well below our means and are grateful every day for any blessings sent our way…
As I know you are, dear friend 🙏🏻😘
The secret to a happy life is contentment with what you have. Stress free, debt free, and closer to God because of it.
But…but….don’cha wanna take a carnival cruise???
LOL!
I’m right there with you. Staying close to God, out of debt and always grateful is the best possible way to go.
As I always say, living on a “fixed income” is code for not having saved a dime for retirement. You cannot live solely on Social Security. All these people crying over a $.20 increase in gas prices should have put some money aside for their later years.
SS ought never be taxed up to the amount contributed plus adjustments for inflation and an addition for acceptable interest. After that it really ought to be means tested. Why should someone be drawing more SS than they contributed if they have their own means?
I used to think means testing was a good idea.
After paying in for so many years, I realize that the more you pay in the less amount (proportionally)
you get. The Dems are always pushing for no ceiling on Social Security tax. A means test would mean the people paying the most would get nada.
Imo, means testing would only make sense if SS tax was at least partly optional.
Property tax relief is a big senior issue. My taxes and insurance are more than what my mortgage payment was in 1999.
Huge!!! Property tax is a wealth tax on unrealized gains, which is out and out immoral.
Our mortgage is paid, and we still don’t own our home. We are simply renting it from the government.
So very true.
We in washington state are under an extreme tax assault by greedy democrat state legislators and relentless education factions.
Betsy, thank you for your patience and long suffering politeness, even when answering retards
So you’re refferring to one of the commenters as a retard. Classy.
If I answer., Rawkstar, I start by wondering what whoever has posted is going through that they don’t speak of or that we don’t know, assuming it has to be something. Unlike the person above who is open, honest and genuninely worried about economic circumstances… which I completely understand. Thank you, dear sir. Bless you. B
Who’s the retard?
Some areas are experiencing petrol below two dollars…in places like IL, surrounding Cook County, its still at 3.49 a gallon. The same with food prices. It just depends where one is tethered.
Tethered, or trapped?
Looking forwards to seeing more opportunity for the freedom to flee.
I pray not to be forced to flee again.
Agree. Gasoline prices are also a function of the amount of taxes embedded (varies by state) and also seasonality (summer driving season specs are more expensive). Especially glad PDJT is refilling the two functional Strategic Petroleum facilities and simultaneously repairing the damage Biden et al did to the other two to juice the election.
BJs discount gas (with BJs credit card) today in SE Michigan is $2.68
I’m in SW Ohio and gas in our area has gone up even as I have seen crude hanging at around $60-$62. Last week we were at $3.09 and this week is $3.19 with some stations being at $3.39. Northern KY gas also went up . Because they are on a different distribution line or route, the two areas don’t usually stay in synch unless crude is rising. I find it weird.
DeSoto County, MS near Memphis, TN.. walmart gas 2.31.. kroger gas 2.41.. Circle K gas.. 2.41 to 2.48..
Diesel, cheap walmart 2.64 .. circle Ks. 2.66 to 2.89…. Shell 2.99..
PS, I’m told gasbuddy can help find cheap gas around your area. never used, don’t do apps.
In washington the average price is down from $4.98 a gallon to $4.31.
I think it’s now taxed at the 4th highest rate in the nation.
Oh my.
In SC, my last purchase of diesel was $2.91/gal.
Gasoline ⛽️ $2.51/gal.
That sounds really good.
Washington has become a real mess.
Surrounded by blue:
dont know where you live, but here in s.e. MI, gas is down, eggs are down, milk is down.
national gas prices per gallon are down AVG $.40 (look it up).
and mortgage interest rates are down from 8.0% in dec, to 6.6% when I checked this morning.
and like betsy said, it’s only been 100 days.
as much as Pres Trump wants to be Pope (his words), LOL, he is only human for pete’s sake
Petes sake??? the petros 😉
He trolls as no other, Slowcobra 😂
*Noted…
👍🏻 😎
Breaks it down…..
National,State and State Regions
Shows prices daily,weekly,monthly and previous year.
AAA Fuel Prices
Slowcobra, I’m in SE Mich, too, near Monroe county border.
Trump literally ran on that. Michael Moore gave a ringing, blistering commentary why the blue collar worker are voting for Trump and this old video is even more relevant today.
And, I ain’t no g-did-man millionaire.
My fuel is down quite a bit.
Been said here consistently, prices, apart from commodities, do not retrench. That’s the disastrous nature of Biden’s and Carter’s massive inflation numbers – they totally reset the bar.
$36 T in debt does not get paid without some pain. I can see what is going on and our economy in 2 years will be a rocket
Gas remains high in central Oregon. The price of eggs remains high.
You must be very young because interest rates are not really that high. In fact a prime rate between 3 and 4% used to be considered optimal for growth and keeping inflation in check.
Newsflash people used to earn interest on their savings and shock of shocks even on their checking balance.
2 and 3% mortgages are abnormal. Go back and look at interest rates prior to the 2008 financial crisis. The issue with interest rates is our national debt. Go back and look at periods of strong economic growth in the USA, they weren’t built on 0% interest.
Their number one goal is to instill panic amongst the plebs. And to ratchet it upward every single day as we head into the midterms next year.
I can just hear them now…
“Are you going to believe our over the top, hysterical gaslighting?
Or what you see are improving conditions within your own lives…”
Armour up, because I guarantee it’s coming.
One promise not yet met….is the rally cry of decreasing our energy costs by about 50%…I think the timeline we were given was either a year or six months from taking the oath…I forget which…
I imagine there is a carefully choreographed plan in place. So will it before or after that “Big Beautiful Bill”?
Our POTUS 45-48 has not let us down yet.
Haha..me? Am thinking of hanging up the stethoscope and going to work at Home Depot…in the garden center…
There is such a thing as “instant gratification” that afflicts many, Aggiegirl.
But some things just take more than 5 minutes, one week, a couple of months. Undoing what Biden et al did to this country was never going to be achieved with the snap of President Trump’s fingers.
(I could see you in a garden centre 💕)
Quit watching TV propaganda, turn on music at the top of the hour on your car radio. I do not recognize any of these “interviewers” that appear on clips here at the Treehouse. The gal this morning said “ah” so many times in the first 2 minutes, I had to quit listening. Nothing they say or report is truthful.
Sage advice, Terry.
We cut the cord years ago and haven’t regretted a single day.
“Nothing they say or report is truthful.” or intelligent.
“The gal this morning said “ah” so many times in the first 2 minutes, I had to quit listening.”
LOL! You’re referring to Clueless News Network’s Kassie Hunt, who
interviewedtried to interrogate our Happy Quokka – Kevin Hassett, but he expertly deflected her attempted BS narrative and had her stuttering while trying to remember her lines in the script……..I’m often disgusted like you at the Narrative engineers, but Hassett had her stuttering with those “ah” and “eh” so frequently you could tell she was VERY unprepared for the truthful answers Hassett was firing back at her. It was actually fun to watch this time.
I noticed that, too, GB.
If she hadn’t been interviewing Happy Quokka, I would have turned it off after her 10th “ah” 👍🏻 😂
Excellent point.
ANY short-form news report is going to be ‘sensational’.
‘If it bleeds, it leads’.
The 1-minute, 3-minute, 5-minute
Top-of-the-hour news summaries are headlines, in bold type.
More heat than light.
I don’t listen, either.
Some years ago, I was a small-market radio news reporter/announcer in South Jersey/Delaware.
Network news on top,
I did state/local on bottom, with longer 15-minute news summaries twice a day.
I trusted my stuff, was discriminating with
AP/UPI copy, and even then, only half-listened to the network feed – it always played to the sensational side.
I do believe… network writers/producers could make
“Fish swim. Birds fly.”
Seem like breaking news lol.
I just made comment about that
before I read your post….
Totally agree….the propaganda machine
is probably already writing up their
talking points and articles, digging
out old articles and preparing to just
change dates and minor revisions.
All their fear mongering is going
to do….is provide entertainment
for me!🤣🤣
If you run across panic articles, gypsy, look for lots of exclamation marks 😂
It really is a tell, girl.
Don’t forget all of the evil scumocrats in the California government.
fixed it
Thanks Man.
China has only one option now, before the peasants in that Country start to riot against XI’s Government. Thery will have to tell Xi to step down (claim health issues to save face), then the next leader can negotiate with PDJT and reduce their tariffs on the USA.
Not holding my breath, but we’ll see. China has a lot of problems.
Water Polution
Air Polution
Soil Degradation
Property Sector Bubble
Corruption even worse than the Democrats
Wasted Investment in High Speed Rail
Over production in all areas of manufacturing
Instead of 1.4 Billion people could be under 800 million
Communism lasts about 80 years before collapse. CCP has to be close to the end game.
CCP forgot Stu Leonard’s rule: The Customer is Always Right.
Ah, but those playing China against the world have a much longer game plan, and collapsing huge swaths of humanity is part of those plans.
WEF is a suicide pact for the West, on behalf of China.
Run by The City.
Yes, Maquis,…but the city is INSANE. They can not be counted on to act out of enlightened self-interest.
Red in tooth and claw, and yes, absolutely insane.
People impotently rage against the puppets without following the strings.
It’s Puppets All The Way Down.
To Hell.
Communism lasts 80 years? Nah, it just takes a Reagan or a Trump to stop propping them up.
Good summary of China’s problems.
It’s said ‘China 🇨🇳 will grow old before it grows rich’.
Ghost cities.
Unbreathable air 💨 in the actual overcrowded cities.
The insane one-child policy is setting China on a demographic slide 🛝 it cannot reverse.
Soviet Communism lasted about 75 years in power.
Chinese Communism just passed the 75-year mark.
The cia did Not predict the collapse of Soviet Communism… they won’t be predicting the possible collapse of Chinese Communism, either.
Will China collapse relatively peacefully, as did the USSR… or will it collapse violently?
No. They murdered their people when they were a poor country. And they’ll murder their people as a less poor country.
Or make moves towards Taiwan.
Uh, the CCP has no qualms eliminating complainers or dissidents.
Health issues are easy to induce in tyrannies.
Sudden Onset Lead Poisoning is a real killer.
I wonder if Xi is regretting that whole “Chairman for life” title?
Always seemed to me to be a bad idea, as it kinda means he can’t just step down, they gotta off him.
If he loses the ‘Mandate of Heaven’
Winnie-the-Pooh
Will be through.
I read an article on American Thinker that said
(while our msm ignores it completely)
that Chyna President Xi has been a little less visible.
He has not attended meetings he normally does.
He has not attended meetings of military staff he normally does.
Spending by working-class Chinese (in other words, everyone but the elite) is down… as if people sense tough times/big change is coming.
Apparently people in Taiwan are hearing this from the Mainland.
Brig burry, you no rikee us just because we want it arr.
china will give it up sooner than later.
let them eat tariffs and choke.😏
We’re not smart, we’re just rucky………..
😀
<We’re not smart, we’re just rucky..>
Well prayed 🙂
I wish I could take credit for that quote but it’s actually from an article here at the Treehouse:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/10/20/a-tribute-to-git-r-done/
From the blog post – you get the picture:
“You see, the reviewers couldn’t actually quantify the reason why the Florida-based energy company was so successful. In response the FPL field leadership laughed, took out magic markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY.”
Here’s the full context:
Several years ago, Florida Power and Light won the prestigious international Edward Demming Award for excellence in multi-platform engineering, efficiency, superiority and total quality in the process of energy management.
However, the scruffy rednecks did not blow every PhD intellectual out of the water with slide rules, CAD programs, articulated and quantified quality improvement processes and engineering acumen. They did it with hard hats and dirty fingernails.
Because they lost the award, the jaw-agape Japanese spent 6 months visiting and reviewing FPL and later published a 1,000-page study essentially saying FPL “wasn’t really good, they were just lucky.”
You see, the reviewers couldn’t actually quantify the reason why the Florida-based energy company was so successful. In response the FPL field leadership laughed, took out magic markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY.”
My personal experiences with FPL…are not ideal.
You two velly funny….
Ruh roh!
Ooooh, love Panda pictures, they’re so cute.
“…………..they’re so cute.”
Until you discover it’s only a mask, and that there’s a dragon behind it.
Oh so China lied about how good things were? Color me shocked. I’m surprised the CCP has held on this long. It’s a paper tiger in every sense.
It’s a
paper tigerPotemkin Village in every sense.Yeap, friends are still buying stuff on Temu, and it is still arriving, “from China,” in 3 or 4 days.
Temu, even way before tariffs, had two systems. Some stuff was shipped “from a local warehouse” and took 3-4 days. Other stuff was shipped from China, and took weeks to arrive.
No doubt those warehouses located in the States are packed to the rafters, and it will take awhile to empty them out.
But, that doesn’t help China manufacturers, unless when an item is sold, the reorder to replace it…and eat the tariff..
military history of Italy in the last 200 years ,and translate it in money ,not in weapons ,and take it to the Nato ,meaning ,how much money is used for the staff and the money used for weapons ,it’s crazy !!! they pay a huge amount of money for a small amount of soldiers and for very expensive weapons ,now what’s the real result ? a small coalition of African countries has ended the colonialism and France cannot do anything because will be defeated ,and what about Yemen ? they have paralised the transit in the Suez Canal ,and none of those high paid generals have no answers ,it will be much better cut their wages because they are incompetent and inefficient ,or send all of them to growing tomatoes
The play by play is okay…
If one chooses to micro analyze someone else’s #’s…
SD is spot on in his analysis…
I just don’t trust the Government for anything.
It is but irrelevant background noise when viewed from a macro perspective…
The only issue left for POTUS to resolve…
Is to break his allegiance to Government {Federal Reserve Bank} first…
And
Restore his allegiance to America {We The People} first.
CAPITALISM
The economic condition wherein The People own the “capital” {public Monies}…
And
The Government owns Ithe “ism”.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
I don’t think China will negotiate. I think they’d slaughter millions of their people before they do that. Retailers had to have made these orders right after election day in November to beat the tariffs. March had the highest freight volume in Long Beach/LA. So, we are really going to start getting weened off the Chinese goods by Fall. Production capacity really already needed to start being built to make up the shortfall. I think some clever and determined people could get an operation up and running 9-12 months, but getting the capital as liquidity tightens and peoples’ wallets are closing… I don’t know.
I am not convinced people’s wallets are closing, rather, that people are soft boycotting by doing with less made-in-China crap. With that, summer is the Christmas-build for consumer products. If there is no movement by 01JUN on the part of Xi, lots of gifts not Made in China and giftcards will be under the Tree this December.
Yes and no. The long covid policy drove people insane and Xi finally had to end it. I think he was actually afraid of a revolt. We don’t know how many people are actually alive in China, especially after covid, they’re very cagy and lie often. I wonder if Xi thinks he can afford to lose more.
China slaughtered millions of its own people because its people cannot fight back. Their people are disarmed, surveilled and constantly controlled. Mao taught that political power comes from the barrel of a gun, so the CCP controls all the guns.
America can fight back now that Trump is in office.
China doesn’t want to negotiate. China will only negotiate because they have no other options.
I think you are correct.
And even then their negotiations are made in bad faith.
Filthy, lying, murderous communists.
The sense of entitlement of these people is staggering. Quite literally the only demand Trump has made is “tariff reciprocity”. That is it. They’re only at 145 because they retaliated.
This is what 30 years of letting them eff us over got us.
Would be divine justice if what was lost was restored to America sevenfold.
For the time being a bully finally got what was long due to them. Will they change course? We’ll see.
What was lost by America was not lost. It was sold. I knew it in the 90s. Why did our politicians not tell us they were selling us out? To China and India, with the H1B visas as well as the transfer of manufacturing. Where was our common sense? President Trump is trying to buy back what other Presidents sold.
I remember when G.E. sold their two last plants to Chy-na that made the electric light bulb. Not that many years ago.
Face is extremely important to Asian cultures. So much so they can be suicidal over saving it. The only reason Japan surrendered was a nuke, and I really hope no one goes that far.
weird though .. I can’t find a countertop ice machine ANYWHERE that says “in stock” … so what is witht that
a first world problem?
<I can’t find a countertop ice machine ANYWHERE that says “in stock” …>
Talking ice machines are rare 🙂
That was funny Wordman!!!
Is your ice machine running?
Yes? Well then you’d better go catch it before it gets away!
Haha!
Beat me to it!
Walmart has tons of them in store and available to ship.
He wanted one that said “in stock” not “in store.” Its a different model.
If, we , buy a 3 month supply of food, gas etc in January, then in Feb. and March I buy nothing. The amount of things we bought divided over 3 months would equal out. But the dems and MSM would say that the economy tanked in Jan. I also expect a lot of greedy merchants will now add a price increase even though their goods were purchased before any tariffs. Chins is starting to hurt badly and they will come to the table soon under Trump;s terms. Plus, this lull in Chinese importing will give American companies some time to fill the gap. Hence less Chiese junk. The longer the lull, the worse for China.
We never should have been in this situation to begin with if the American system that president Donald j trump is trying to reinstall had been removed by the free trade traitors
I really like this. So, with enough inventory for the next 3 months, China is going to be on life support in 1 month. War always is diversion for the masses. I imagine China may make actual moves toward Taiwan in the next few months.
I read somewhere yesterday or the day before, China is having lots of problems with their Made in China ships and vessels. If so, Taiwan might be off the table.
Maybe like their buildings or like this from Clarke and Dawe, the front fell off.
That was hilarious!
Look them up. They do one on quantitative easing (using a photo copier), etc
😅 🤣 😂
My two favs are quantitative easing and the EU loans.
It’s like Trump took them “down” with us. He’s basically handicapped them from having a full scale kinetic war.
Xi will have to start seriously pandaing to the masses before very much longer if he knows what’s good for him…
Sad Panda
May soon
Panda
No more
If nothing
In store!
Thank you, Sundance, for the TRUTH.
MAGA Wolverines !
👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻
Sundance economics education—is the best!
👏 👏 👍 👍
I predict a lot of fear mongering coming
up the next couple of months🤬🤬
The propaganda machine is probably already
writing up talking points🫤🙄
Meh🙄🤷♀️💁♀️ Ain’t gonna work on me!😁
China calling the U.S. Bully, is pure projection, and the “international community” Yi was aiming his comments at, all know the long history of bullying, of the CCP.
CHYNA Inc. will not find any solidarity, in their ill fated effort to gyn up a coalition of the willing,..not even with the EU, who are also on the chopping block, and are already shielding themselves against China
dumping.
President Trump said he doesn’t really want to hurt China, and expects to make a deal, beneficial to both…lol throwing Xi’s Panda face right back at him.
Yes. I love how PDJT is playing nice panda to Xi and the cameras while most of us know that PDJT wants China to pay mightily for the economic wreck that it has caused since Kissinger, Clinton, Bush, Covid and Biden.
I can’t tell if AOC or AOXi is writing the DNCCP Mandate of
HeavenMasktopia.It may have been the red millionaire Bernie Panders of the Faceless Panda Clan.
“Fire Trump. Keep Fauci. Wear a mask. End the war on science.”
–Bernie Sanders, Nov. 2, 2020
-Bernie Sanders’ Coachella Speech Proves the Democrats Are LOST
https://rumble.com/v6s5icp-bernie-sanders-coachella-speech-proves-the-democrats-are-lost.html
If only PT could explain this as simply as Sundance.
I hope someone in PT’s circle reads here and considers posting almost verbatim what Sundance has articulated in these last two posts.
Clear as a bell and should bring a great deal of optimism toward PT’s economic policies.
If you watched the media, you would think the world was coming to an end. These people are truly vile.
And the mental health of Dem voters is suffering because they believe every word Maddow says.
The crisis-cycle will increase as awareness of political pretenders penetrates the democracy bubble.
-CANADIAN RESIDENT ATTENDS PRES. TRUMP’S 100TH DAY RALLY!
https://rumble.com/v6sqpfp-canadian-resident-attends-pres.-trumps-100th-day-rally.html
media
I love the graphic of the Bald Eagle clawing the nasty snake to stop it from snatching the USA!!! Very profound
I imagine the Temu sellers are feeling the pain. Once the local warehouses are empty they will have no income from the states. The longer China holds out the more I will be inclined to avoid China made merchandise in the future after things are ironed out.
Todd, you will like the comment I posted below about the immense drop in the amount of Temu products coming to the US Postal Service facility I work at. Temu and China must be absolutely freaking out. President Trump did the right thing.
“The U.S. has front-loaded the inventory. So, orders to China drop now. It’s a natural outcome.”
Anybody here have access to an Amazon warehouse? I suspect those places are packed to the rafters.
I am willing to “suffer” through this transition period to bringing manufacturing home. I think my family is too. I would rather we all double or triple up in living spaces, than each of us own our nice homes and demand our “way of life”. Outsourcing everything to China was an enormous mistake. And we have, and possibly will, pay dearly for that. We are living in a house of cards and Trump is trying to fix that, for the long run. I want my grandchildren to have opportunity.
First of all, Trump says a lot of… attention-grabbing things. This does not necessarily telegraph his actual intent, much his actual control. Actions of others outside his control, well… at best, his guess is slightly better than yours.
Second of all, once China faces instability of a major trade partner, will it:
A) Suffer being hit by waves, do nothing, and perhaps eventually flail in panic?
B) Seek more stable partners… and perhaps look whether it can reduce dependency of its other partners on the unstable part of the market, for good measure?
If your answer is (B), you are far too mentally functional to be a neocon.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-04-26/message-chinaan another side of this story which some may not like but worth its grain of salt…
correct link : https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-04-26/message-china
Now I know how to tell the lunatic dems what is really happening. They always site the msm news sources they listen to.
Chinese workers are protesting the closing of factories so the tariffs are already having an impact.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/04/30/hundreds-chinese-workers-protest-factories-shut-down-trump-tariffs/
Chy-na workers not happy. https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/04/30/hundreds-chinese-workers-protest-factories-shut-down-trump-tariffs/
The natives are getting restless
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/04/30/hundreds-chinese-workers-protest-factories-shut-down-trump-tariffs/
Sorry, but, great minds think alike 😉
All that buy-ahead inventory of Chinese-made crap is now on the books of the wholesalers and retailers. The costs for buying that inventory are already sunk. Inventory costs money to hold. Some of that inventory, especially tech gadgets, don’t age well and go obsolete quickly.
There is a powerful incentive for those wholesalers and retailers to sell off that inventory, not hang onto it. They will fire-sale it if needed.
That inventory sell-off should hold down prices on those goods until the stockpiles are depleted. That should reduce the inflationary effect of the tariff.
Because it’s not like everyone and their dog (because dogs can tell this simply by smell) understands what “OEM partnership” is, and that by now by now all “awesome” stuff branded with “made in USA”, etc rolls from the very same conveyors as «Chinese-made crap», only in different batches? Do you have some reason to assume people here were living under a rock for the last 40 years or so?
I work at one of the biggest US Postal Service sorting facilities in the US.
I posted an angry comment here several months back about the horrible amount of Chinese Temu packages we had to handle (tens of thousands of pounds) every night. Stated that people in the US would freak out if they knew the horrible amount of money China was getting from us.
President Trump has done the right thing.
The amount of Temu packages handled at my facility has dropped down to almost NOTHING, most nights I do NOT even see a SINGLE Temu package anymore. That will lead to an increase of clothing manufacturing in the US. REAL jobs for US citizens (not slave labor like Temu uses in China), and our money will stay here, not go to China. What has happened to Temu must be happening to other China companies, China must be freaking out bigtime.
I think this is a valuable and encouraging ground report.
I appreciate it. Please keep us posted.
Thanks for sharing your observations.
The fact Temu packages 📦 are down near
Zero
Zip
Zed
Is fascinating.
Big Trouble
In little china!
Dragon:”To tariff American products coming into China is to protect China’s sovereignty.”
Panda:”To tariff Chinese products getting into America is imperialist American bullying.”
MSM:”Trump bad, Trump bad!”
The 666 beast is the dragon and the panda.
The evil spirits that look like frogs are the MSM.
After 40 years of sucking us dry (with the help and blessing of our “leaders”) we wake up and suddenly we’re the “bully”? I don’t think so.