The media have been going bananas wondering when President Trump will begin negotiations with China. President Trump has been very clear that there is no need to open negotiations with China, but all discussions are welcome.
Essentially the point is that tariffs will remain in place until Beijing gets to a point where they acquiesce to the reality of President Trump’s terms for reciprocal trade. The goal is to bring manufacturing back to the USA, not generate terms where manufacturing remains in China.
The Chinese trade delegation is scheduled to be in Switzerland at the same time as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are scheduled to be there. Both Bessent and Greer announced today they will meet with their Chinese counterparts on the sidelines of their travel to Switzerland.
USTR Press Release – […] “At President Trump’s direction, I am negotiating with countries to rebalance our trade relations to achieve reciprocity, open new markets, and protect America’s economic and national security,” said Ambassador Greer. “I look forward to having productive meetings with some of my counterparts as well as visiting with my team in Geneva who all work diligently to advance U.S. interests on a range of multilateral issues.”
While in Switzerland, Ambassador Greer will also meet with his counterpart from the People’s Republic of China to discuss trade matters.” (link)
Treasury Secretary Press Release – “During Secretary Bessent’s visit to Switzerland, he will meet with President Karin Keller-Sutter of Switzerland, during which the Secretary will follow up on their recent meeting on the sidelines of the recent World Bank Group (WBG) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings.
While in Switzerland, Secretary Bessent will also meet with the lead representative on economic matters from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). (link)
As we previously noted, the Swiss are very interested in resolving their trade status quickly.
The Swiss Franc is now at the highest point against the U.S dollar in decades. One franc is worth 1.21 dollars. This makes their exports cost even more. The Swiss government desperately needs to lower the value of their currency. The Swiss central bank has already dropped interest rates to 0.25% and is now contemplating negative interest rates as a result.
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There, now that wasn’t so hard now was it?
Crush the Chinese economy. Make the Chinese punish the globalists who put them into this vulnerable position. The globalists betrayed China and it is time to exploit this.
I am sick of f—king around with these people.
Bring the pain!
I agree about crushing the Chinese economy, though I don’t fully understand what you mean by “make the Chinese punish the globalists.” I want to inflict as much economic pain as possible. I would like to see us continue to destabilize them with tariffs and have their economy completely collapse. Make no mistake about it, if they don’t get these tariffs lifted, they will face extreme difficulties. If it causes the regime to change, all the better. For people who say that this would negatively affect the citizens of that country, I don’t care. They have absolutely destroyed our manufacturing industry, and do you think any of them feel sorry for the millions of Americans who lost their jobs? I have no interest in throwing them a lifeline.
The people of China have to throw off their dictators on their own…just as the people of France, the UK, Brazil, Ireland, Germany, et cetera have to oust their dictators…and they are dictatorships, no mistake about it.
And, in the inscrutable ancient history of China, the “CCP” is just a “blip.” In due time, the people of that country will throw it off, just as the Europeans dismantled the USSR. As a political and economic strategy, Communism does not work.
They can bury “T-Square,” but everybody saw it, and fully understood what they were seeing.
Like J6, the truth of T-Square is immutable and available to those who inquire. Excellent post. China and her magnificent history dwarf the CCP and its beneficiaries. Communism has been rebranded and has still failed with the CCP. Perception is not reality, reality is. Bessent has leverage and doesn’t need a deal.
What’s “magnificent” about china’s history?
If the CCP had any semblance of reality that is about to hit them, they would tell the world that XI is stepping down for health reasons, this way he saves face. If not the peasants because of massive unemployment and future food shortages will do it for them which is not what they want to see.
Don’t forget Iran.
Yeah, they were included in the “et cetera.” The list is certainly long, isn’t it, of dictatorships.
A few patriots proved that in 1775.
Just as the people of the United States just did in 2024
Yes, and despite the cheating that went on.
We need to end our dictatorship and end continuous global hegemony empire building.
It’s bankrupted the nation, while a handful of globalist billionaires own our government.
Starting by ending our use of Ukraine to wage war against Russia.
Quit pretending to broker a peace as though Ukraine was a sovereign country. It’s 100% funded and its’ military commanded and terror operations planned by our military and US.
We have generations of work to do, to educate the youth, restore manufacturing and figure out what to do with tens of millions of useless, highly paid beaurocrats, university professors, and professions that push paper, not create anything.
As for the Chinese people who are now unemployed…..what has become of them?? Are they led out to the ditches?? Have they disappeared in the middle of the night?? Have they been reassigned?? Nothing would surprise me over there.
The Chinese people did not ‘destroy our manufacturing industry’. Actually, neither did the Chinese govt. What destroyed it was greedy corporations putting profit before people, greedy short sighted unions with massively corrupt leadership, and a U.S. govt only too willing to sell out to lobbyists and special interests.
You are blaming the wrong people.
I did not say that the Chinese people destroyed our manufacturing industry, so I’m not sure why you have that in quotes. I was implying that China (the regime) contributed to this devastation, and I 100% stand by that comment. I work in manufacturing, and I have seen them in operation firsthand. Between the currency manipulation, forced intellectual property transfers, and various unfair trade practices (artificially low prices, predatory behavior, forced labor to further reduce costs), they purposefully accelerated the decline in US manufacturing. Very few people talk about specific regime actions, but they’re complicit. I didn’t even mention my favorite practice of theirs…take a US product, reverse engineer it, and then flood the market to put the US entity out of business. I’ve seen this happen to companies that didn’t even have a China manufacturing presence. For those who do, they’ve been known to steal tooling and molds. If you’ve read any of my posts, you’ll routinely see me bashing sleazy corporatists who sold us out. If you think the Chinese government hasn’t capitalized on their greed, you’re sorely mistaken (and likely don’t work in manufacturing).
The exfiltration of manufacturing and wealth from the US started back in the 1960s. The U.S. gubmint was very complicit. It started with Japan. They were provided tours of US steel mills to see first hand how they operated and were allowed to take pictures. When they announced a Japanese car plant in the US the US steel makers were very excited about having a new customer for steel products. Nope. We got screwed. They brought in everything and assembled the cars here. My dad was in the steel industry back then and saw it first hand. Legislation was passed over the years favoring US manufacturing being transferred out of our country. First Japan, then Taiwan, then Viet Nam, then other countries. President Trump is bringing it back. God bless him.
Maybe Ted Kennedy and LBJ?
Or was it Teddy Roosevelt splitting the Republican Party in two for Woodrow Wilson?
Hmmmm…dunno.
Thank you Eric
Let’s be a little fair here. Sure, they stole intellectual property which contributed. The USA itself helped to destroy its manufacturing industry–it incentivized moving out of the country via uncompetitively high corporate tax rates and overregulation. China just was happy to oblige.
I don’t even know what you’re saying. Did I say that the US didn’t contribute to the decline of manufacturing? I was merely pointing out that China has also inflicted severe damage. A completely true statement, and you don’t have to work in manufacturing to realize that. The two can both be true at the same time. China has does more than just oblige. You brush off intellectual property theft like it’s a rounding error. That alone is worth trillions of dollars in GDP. Let’s not forget about currency manipulation, trade barriers, coercion, pricing tactics, and various other strategies they use to eliminate competition. China has tried every conceivable strategy to destroy us. I’m happy to bash the sleazy, greedy corporatists for getting us into this mess.
One thing that puzzles me, whilst revenge may be sweet, how many American Industrialist gangsters made a fortune off the back of the Chinese manufacturing system?
Are they not the ones who should carry some of the blame?
Like Amazon, not to mention the Biden criminal enterprise?
Not just the ‘gangsters’ but also their shareholders who may have included many here or their parents via investments, pensions, insurances etc.
Not only did millions of Americans lose their livelihoods, but China also trafficked in fentanyl to kill the unemployed Americans off in their misery.
Definitely a FAFO situation.
The globalists did not punish the Chinese. The globalists pushed manufacturing to China. The CCP instead of using the inflow of jobs and production to raise the standard of living of the Chinese people used it to terrorize the world and its own population.
As the wife of the former Premier of Singapore said, “Xi acted like a Mafia Boss to the rest of the world”.
In fact China used the globalists. Destroy the US with Fentanyl, lawfare, Covid, releasing criminals to strike again was the CCP plan and many of the Democrats and Globalists were paid to go along with that plan.
I like you, you got talent! 😉
Can you imagine what it will do for small towns like mine to have our factories back. Town of 3000 people had 3 garment factories before nafta
I’ve been praying for this to happen for years. Unfortunately, a trade deal with China makes reshoring an impossibility. We will see what happens.
Yes, and the increase in “Friday Night Lights” across rural America.
As someone who works in manufacturing, this is a disappointing development to me. China is a country that has wreaked havoc on our manufacturing industry. They lie, cheat, and steal and won’t honor anything they sign. They’ll go into these negotiations with the mentality that they’ll ignore all the provisions of the deal anyway. They consider a new trade deal to be business as usual. I was truly hoping to put the screws to them to force US companies to shift manufacturing elsewhere. The tariffs have been doing just that. I’ve been seeing recently where companies have shifted to Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, etc. Even the ones who don’t admit it publicly are silently putting together plans. Although I would prefer these companies to reshore back to the US, I’ll take any wins we can get.
Moving to another foreign country doesn’t help our American communities and workers. Said with sadness.
I don’t disagree with you one bit, but that’s the reality we live in. I hear about these developments all day long. There’s no one who wants US reshoring more than I do, but it’s not happening at any rate close to what I would like to see. Most of the moves are “friendshoring,” which at least has the benefit of hurting China. Not ideal though.
Have you need seen and heard of the TRILLIONS being spent to RESHORE? Many companies ARE bringing manufacturing back here.
Sad Panda might be getting tired of being sad… 🐼
Tough on Sad Panda!
China is not to be trusted, they are thieves & murderers. Until they have regime change and renounce communism no deal should be done.
Agreed 100%.
Communism in China is just as externally imposed as it was in Russia.
What a wonder it would be if PDJT was effecting a hostage rescue for Xi like he was working with Kim?
Communism = Fabian Socialism = British Crown
😍
What a wonder it is to still be alive so I’m able to watch PDJT effecting so many “hostage rescues” aka ‘Escapes from EUSSR” gulags and prisons.
God speed to every current year Kim.
God bless PDJT.
And God bless every human being who is working with Him and him.
10000000 ^
Wash your hands and watch your six….
Bessent is, from what I’ve seen thus far, an excellent choice for Treasury Secretary. He never shows his cards. Must be an excellent poker player.
And always refers to President Trump and his agenda, and not any he might have.
No rogue he…
Trustworthy.
Loyal.
Yes, I always listen up he is very careful with the words he chooses to use. And he always defers back to the President as the ultimate authority.
Bessent full well knows the deal and the rules.
Yes, I always listen up he is very careful with the words he chooses to use. And he always defers back to the President as the ultimate authority.
Bessent full well knows the deal
Not only Secretary Bessent who defers.
If you’ve had an opportunity to listen in on the cabinet meetings,
each one who speaks does the same. And what I’ve noticed is that it doesn’t sound obsequious. It’s natural. And genuine. A collegial cabinet, each of whom is implementing the President’s agenda for all Americans. Everyone on the same page and cohesive.
Jeanine: Remember Ol’ Yeller? Neither do I.
And like he said today if front of Con Gress, He left the private market to help PDJT because he was sick of what was happening to the USA. Like PDJT he didn’t have to do this.
And he is learning quickly how dishonest the media is.
Is anyone surprised, that President Trump is winning?
He started of with a Royal Flush, and it really didn’t matter if the other players drew/discarded cards, or raised and called, the outcome has been predetirmined.
As for Wall Street, and its apoplecy over Uncertainty, how short memories are, forgetting the uncertainty Wall Street foisted on Americans,with the 2009 meltdown.
And their paid for Congress lapdogs bailed their butts out.
“Too big to fail” still rankles me.
They are tanking the stock market on purpose. Who will outlast who? PDJT or them. At some point they will run out of money.
“Trade,” according to the United States, has been exploitative of the United States for many decades. But the USA simply rolled over and took it, paying tariffs on its exports but not collecting tariffs on its imports. It entered into one of the worst trade agreements ever written (NAFTA), and finally replaced it with something else that was barely better. It is perfectly obvious that the officials who “negotiated” these deals didn’t have the faintest idea what they were doing. But the Chinese did. And, Trump does.
Such a disarmingly simple idea: “Make {your_country} Great Again.” In everything that you do and in everything that you negotiate. Because absolutely no one else will ever do it for you. (And, why on earth should they? They’ve got {their_country}! Duh.)
NAFTA = Bill Clinton = Rhodes Scholar = Oxford = British Crown
But but but JudasPence says cheap goods is the 🇺🇲dream……
Total opposite of maga…..clueless as ever
What a demonrat
A big Mickey middle finger to that traitor.
I blame the Uni party members like JudasPence who sold WeThePeople out
Everyone can wish China a very happy economic death all they want, but as I’ve said before, people on generic prescription meds will suffer depending if pharmaceutical tariffs move at a breakneck pace. It should be gradual. The media is saying Trump may go a full 200% tariff on them, but that quite honestly would kill people.
You are in panic mode.
Not a good thing.
Don’t believe the lies to put you into panic mode.
Underestimate President Trump at your own peril.
OMG old people will die!!!
Which version, the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, 10’s, early 20’s?
Neither, you found a new he’s going to throw grandma off the cliff for 2025. Bravo.
And if generic drug manufacturing is not moved back to America it will kill people too. Do you want such an evil regime with no scruples making your antibiotics and blood pressure meds?? Seriously, medications made in America must be prepared for facility inspections on any day. The Chinese get a 60 days warning of coming inspections. What could possibly go wrong from having our sworn enemy manufacture our meds??? This is a national security issue! We keep using cheap generics made in China at our own peril!
Not to mention that the covid swabs manufactured there. Who knows what they could be contaminated with.
Seems unlikely that we cannot produce generic drugs on US soil. There just won’t be as much profit as doing it with slave labor in China.
it’s a good point.
cardiac meds, thyroid supplementation, blood thinners, and other pharmaceuticals
treat conditions that can affect people of ANY age.
underscores the absolute necessity of on-shoring production here.
there have been rolling shortages of drugs already,
we should have paid better attention to previous warnings.
PT, as usual, has to clean up the mess left to him.
he could relax the tariff rate on critically needed meds until we are self sufficient,
or incentivize India to pick up the slack as they already have the production facilities to do so.
or, he could come up with a totally Trumpian solution that remains to be seen.😁
“but that quite honestly would kill people”
Light Heartedly channelling Hillary’s 2015 voice to ask
like killing them with a super deadly covid cloth, perchance?
As the beloved alt media site, ‘Zero Hedge’, reminds its readers via its prominently displayed banner, “in a long enough time line the chances of survival become zero”.
Since the dawn of time every sentient has known that no matter how long one lives, in the blink of an eye, EVERYONE dies.
However, many people believe this death is not necessarily fatal.
#ImWithThem😘
Off topic, but Trump needs to stop by western North Carolina, check on the rebuilding after the floods, and do some visiting with North Carolinians asap.
Senator Tillis is too busy covering the back side of the DC court and could care less about his home state.
Tillis has got to go.
My guess is that President Trump and his A-Team have this Tillis thingy under control and Tommy may not be calling all the shots for much longer…..but who knows?
Wait and see what happens.
Don’t panic.
I am posing a couple thoughts that I hope do not give the wrong impression of my position on things……but they are realities that must be considered.
So, bringing back jobs that were offshored 30+ years ago. First, various levels of automation would have to be something to be understood would be part of the manufacturing. Factories will not be like they were in the 1980s/90s.
What are the various pay scales/rates to be with reshored US jobs? We have seen pictures/videos of Chinese and other Asian factories. Looks much like pictures of US factories from the 30s/40s. Better (probably safer) machinery of course, but floor plan is much the same. Will American workers do that work? And what pay will they expect? I’m sure they won’t accept the pay scale of those workers in the pictures/videos. What then is the cost of particular items produced in the US as compared to the cost when made in Asia or elsewhere?
There are safety and employment regulations in the US that aren’t in other countries. How will those factor into the cost?
Again, I am not against reshoring of jobs……but what would be the price of particular items? Are we prepared to pay perhaps significant price increases? Thoughts?
US energy costs are lower. Shipping costs are lower. Robotic manufacturing is more productive. Chinese quality is poor ot even dangerous. High value products will be competitive. Fresh food prices will drop come harvest. US wages will rise faster than inflation. Read Sundance for details.
The American people voted for the increased pay scales, the benefits and the regulations. They will simply begin paying for what they chose as quality of life and will stop getting a free ride off the backs of foreigners instead of off the backs of their fellow Americans.
To answer your last question, yes. It is now or never in reshoring jobs. Time for mom & pop stores to make a comeback. Time for quality to overtake quantity. Time for the entrepreneurial spirit to be instilled in our younger generations.
Funny, I just had a long conversation with one of my children about we need to go back to making things, we need engineers, we need people who think outside the box. Technology is going to play a part in that whether we want it to or not; so incorporate technology with that spirit.
I feel like we’ve been in “The Truman Show” for 40 years, and finally the boat runs into the wall, we find the stairs, and we’re out.
Thanks all for thoughtful discussion points and comments. I really really want so much for all of this to work out for the best. We’ve actually been given a chance to make things right…..hope we don’t errrr mess it up.
I would gladly pay more for that “Made in America” label. And as others have pointed out, higher prices would likely be short-lived, and/or offset by other factors, such as falling energy prices.
It would be nice if a pair of jeans lasted a few years instead of a few weeks.
You make some good points and asking the right common sense questions.
What I am thinking is tariffs are not going to be” the answer” long term. Too many economic headwinds.
But the folks on the mainstreet are eating it up like marketing candy and smooth political catchphrases.
If the only way the US can compete in the world is by levying extraordinary amounts on $$$ top of what is produced abroad, then this is fine.. However we need to keep in mind this is an unnatural market situation. (Like a hand pressing down on a scale, the scale only tips as long as the hand is there)
As soon as the tariffs are reduced or abolished and hand is removed, the people who invested in the new shiny factories will see their investment disappear as things return back to equilibrium. Plus or minus economic fallout like the bond market exploding, that sort of stuff.
Even at peak success, tariffs will mean most people on mainstreet will be paying more, for the reasons you mentioned (regulations, wages, new factories)
That is the optimistic scenario, and that is all PROVIDED that you can manufacture or find all the people to manufacture all the gizmos (pretty much stand up factories and supply chains overnight), of the stuff that are currently imported from abroad.
Remember ALL of the stuff, because they are introduced as BLANKET tariffs.. (But realistically things are already being exempt like the realization a US made IPhone would cost 2.5x as much, so that would make the hippies revolt)
There might also not be a political or economical will or capability to produce everything domestically.
The US is an advanced financialized service economy today.
It wont turn on a dime because Trump wants it to.. This could take many years.
Which will mean less stuff will be availablein the meantime, and less stuff means mainstreet will have a lower quality of life.
If people pay more for less, that will be the true test of convictions.
But my thinking is the tariffs will be mainly a pressure point and they will be reverted sooner or later. Likely sooner.
But it will likely be sold as a win regardless.
Everybody will be happy, plus or minus some fallout.
The long term solution is not tariffs, but investment in people, education, lowering cost of living, innovation, and politicians stop stealing and devaluing the currency. Sound fiscal management. (running 3 trillion dollar deficits doesnt help either) This will also take decades, but the US can do it. No easy solutions, but hard work.
There will be tariffs that remain. That is the plan Trump has to create a new revenue stream to allow for a heavy reduction in income taxes.
Lets take this to the extreme and imagine a maximum success for tariffs, whereby nothing gets imported anymore and everything is produced domestically in the US by US workers.
In this scenario it would also mean there would be no income revenue anymore for the US.
As tariffs would replace income taxes.
As tariffs are on the import side and the US would in this scenario would be importing nothing.
Thus making the income stream 0 (zero)
The US is already running a 3 trillion deficit WITH income taxes today. If there were 0 income taxes as in the above scenario, what would happen?
Yes, costs will go up. But so will disposable income if Trump manages to get rid of personal income tax. Everything Trump is doing is taking power and wealth away from the top 1% and transferring it back to the middle class. And with that comes responsibility, ingenuity, self-reliance and opportunity. No more free rides and entitlement.
Like to be a fly on the wall there (with interpreter). Especially since it seems that Apple is going to source all iPhones to be built in India. The India that just decided that engaging with Pres. Trump instead of the Chicoms was the route they want to pursue in terms of trade deals.
I agree with the prior posters who demand we crush China. For too long they have gamed the worldwide economic system and unfairly profited, stole technology and used the wealth we gave them to build their military and seduce developing nations with loans we paid for. All that must stop. China must be driven to it’s knees economically and never allowed to rise again. If this results in their rolling the die on Taiwan, then we must as well do what is necessary to ensure they are no longer a military threat. China must never again be allowed any kind of influence on the world stage.
And if, by some positive internal change, the 1.4 billion Chinese people toss out the CCP and demand a democratic-style government, then and only then should we give them some space to grow and prosper
But until such time as that occurs, we should take no prisoners in our approach to China, her economy or her military.
Agree 100%
Don’t back off the tariffs because every country knows and we already have experienced you can’t trust China.
I’d like to see China adopt some measure of freedom of religion for its people.
The poor character traits many of us notice, chiefly dishonesty in business practices, results from individual consciences
being untrained in the Biblical virtues.
China has its own religious virtues, many of which Westerners overlook or deem unimportant, I dare say.
But the “golden rule” seems missing in the development of their character. Correct me if I’m mistaken, please.
I’m so tired of cheap Chinese made stuff everywhere you go,
Wife bought a Chyna/Amazon tool cheap. Broke on first use. Amazon gave refund and didn’t want the POS returned. I won’t miss Chinese crap at all.
China exported to us tainted, aka poison, cat food, about ten years ago. My little gray Tabby cat got sick and died.
Her name was Sasha.
I learned “Caveat Emptor” the hard way. That is to say, don’t buy “made in China” anything.
Why is my previous comment waiting for approval? What protocol of commentary have I violated?
I wanted to post my comment in two parts to avoid it being erased by the ubiquitous pop up adds.
My conclusion was that the Eastern culture of the Chinese that I was exposed to lacks empathy. They do not feel sorrow or grief after a personal loss the way Western culture does.
It was put this way.
A man had a son of whom he was very proud and with whom he felt a close connection (love).
His son died tragically in an accident. The father recovered from the loss with little emotional toll. He explained, there was a time before my son was born I did not know him or love him because he wasn’t living, he didn’t exist. Now that he’s no longer living I don’t miss what doesn’t exist.
Do you see how difficult it is to negotiate with people who have an attitude of human life as meaningless by virtue of its transience?
My young China born professor gave examples throughout Chinese literature and classical philosophical works.
When China was an isolationist country before Henry Kissinger made overtures to open relations, China was guided by the mystical I Ching that was a cultural absolute.
It had predicted that the last emperor signaled a time when China would be subsumed into a dark period of isolation almost like the grave.
At a future time with patient understanding of the Tao of the universe China would rise again. Since the Tao is the ebb and flow of all things, the Chinese abound in an inner strength that isn’t related to any particular circumstance. That is why they cannot be trusted to follow through with agreements.
This is a very, very interesting point to consider. I don’t believe most American entrepreneurs who have happily embraced manufacturing in China understand the core beliefs of those they are in partnership. They are not judeo Christians.
It is an intrinsic cultural attitude unique to the Chinese.
India and Japan aren’t Judeo-Christian either but their concepts of human interaction are quite different from China.
Neither India nor Japan are totalitarian states.
“Over 95% of the parts for each Tesla’s Model 3 and refreshed Model Y are made in China, the US EV giant said on Weibo today. The carmaker’s Shanghai Gigafactory delivered more than 916,000 units last year, accounting for half the company’s total.”
https://www.yicaiglobal.com/flashdetail/86556334632645
The chinese are a bunch of scamming lying thieves. NO DEAL! Tariff them to hell and bring back all of the jobs.
Have a nice steaming plate of Fong gu courtesy of President Trump
Crush China! How bout the CEO of Matel who said we will never bring back toy production to the US. POS!
I’ll say Scott Bessent isn’t like Tony Blinken.
Violence and unrest is already happening in China. Real estate market prices have dropped. Xi is more afraid of his own people than of the USA: the Chinese are already attacking politicians on the streets. They need face. So this is why the US last week “reached out” and requested a meeting with China, although they already were talking through back channels.
This will be resolved. China cannot allow this to last for too long or else their country will collapse. We do not need to buy more stuff from China, but they desperately need our money to keep those factories running. Factories stop and riots start! And that CEO for Mattel should be fired. The USA gave Mattel its manhood (quoting a phrase from the movie Wall Street) and they turn on us like that? Samsonite and Kodak, Panasonic, and others as well should all be forced to come back even in increments). Our politicians have sold us out!
What do the Swiss export? Swiss Cheese? I thought their biggest export was the idea of Swiss Banks!
Machine tools, pharmaceuticals and, yes, dairy products and chocolate.
The precision of Swiss watches are also highly valued.
Do most people still wear watches? I stopped years ago. The “watches” most people wear today are smart watches like apple watch. It’s another habit broken.
The vintage watches are collectible and very pricey plus they do keep perfect time.
They are like fine jewelry. I bought my husband a manly 14k gold watch with a mother of pearl face. He wore it more than his Omega or Rolex.
Globalism disguised as neutrality.
Saw video on instagram of mass protests in China.
Try buying a bottle of aspirin made in the United States.
Trump understands that by lowering gas and energy prices he is offsetting higher prices on merchandise that used to come from China, which placates the American consumer and buys him time…to do nothing!
And doing nothing is Trump’s trump card, because by not being in a hurry to renegotiate a trade deal with China, all the while his 145% tariffs have kicked in, the U.S. is saving hundreds of billions of dollars a year it had in trade deficits with them last year.
And Trump’s using the same ‘do nothing’ strategy in negotiations with Mexico, the EU, Vietnam, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Canada and India…the countries responsible for the lion’s share of the U.S.’s 1.2 TRILLION dollar deficit!
With new tariffs in place on all those countries and even higher tariffs set to kick in with any country that doesn’t renegotiate new reciprocal trade deals with us, (U.S. us), THEY need to be in a hurry, but we don’t!
As the old Italiano saying goes, “Il dolce far niente…how sweet to do nothing!”
Who ever thought the art of the deal could be this sweet?
When they finally get lower (still over $4/gal here) it will only offset costs if cost of goods goes down as well. If transport, energy and manufacturing costs are lower, will they lower prices – I’m doubting shrinkflation we’ve seen over the last year is going to return to costs and volume of goods (think how 1/2 gallon of juice actually used to be 1/2 gallon).
The name of “Chinese Communist” when written in ‘simplified’ Chinese language, reveals that the Party is the Beast 666.
The number of the strokes of the ‘simplified’ characters of its name i.e. ‘Chinese Communist’ are ‘hua gong chan’ 6 6 6.
The book of Revelation has at least 4 chapters talking about the 666 Beast.
Not so sure I want to see more of this manufacturing in the US: https://www.pfizer.com/products/pfizer-global-supply/us-manufacturing-sites/kalamazoo
Recall Pfizer had the largest DOJ criminal fine against it as settlement for its drug manufacturing practices.
US needs to shift away from “dependence” on pill mills to healthy whole foods and quit lining the pockets of drug oligarchs and Wall street shareholders.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history
Congress needs to “debar” bad actors from government contracting . I wonder how many lives would have been saved if folks had not been mandated to take Pfizer’s jab.
Paying that criminal fine for Pfizer was “just the cost of doing business”. It obviously did not deter further bad conduct: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2381224/judge-scraps-75-year-fda-timeline-to-release-pfizer-vaccine-safety-data-giving-agency-eight-months/
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-announces-agreement-gilead-manufacture-remdesivir
This was the treatment pushed by Fauci which Bryan Ardis spectacularly deterred many from receiving (after his father in law died from it) by coming up with the phrase “Run Death is Near”.
Dr. Bryan Ardis on Remdesivir: https://rumble.com/vxy3yj-dr-bryan-ardis-on-remdesivir.html
We need Nuremberg 2.0 trials.
Dr. David E. Martin on covid crimes: https://rumble.com/v4gnuqw-david-martin-speaking-at-the-international-covid-summit-february-23-2024-an.html
“We need”…. (insert current thing).
Fwiw
Even though its now common place: to create a plural pronoun “posse” rather use a singular pronoun and to treat wants and needs as synonymous……
I want =/= “We need”
Obviously, online malevolents aka Psychological warfare/PsyWar operatives +bots, routinely use both tactics.
However, so do their online victims who have become infected by these ubiquitous mind viruses and turned into unwitting digital typhoid mary psyop spreaders.
Good God! This is evil on stilts! Thank you, Kat.
Pfizer’s jab used nanotechnology. https://www.ssnano.com/
FDA is obviously not keeping abreast of changes in drug products. Nanotechnology used in the jabs. Nano graphine oxide.
https://biologyinsights.com/graphene-oxide-side-effects-in-humans-what-we-know-so-far/
nanotechnology side effects
And, nanothechnologyis used to spray our skies: https://zerogeoengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Cloud-Seeding_GO_final-report-prof-linda-zou.pdf
See video of Hurricane Helene storm steering (post nano cloud seeding) using NEXRAD :
Dane Wiggington Geoengineeringwatch.org
Meanwhile, local governments are not intelligently choosing manufactured products to disinfect drinking water. After research showed chlorine caused bladder cancer, regulations were put into place to require the removal of the disinfection by products. Rather than add a bit more expensive carbon filter, local governments chose the “cheaper” chloramine alternative. Twenty years later local communities now have green ponds and waterways, suffering from nitrogen overloading from using chloramine. https://www.tceq.texas.gov/drinkingwater/disinfection/nitrification.html
EPA regulation for drinking water: https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/stage-1-and-stage-2-disinfectants-and-disinfection-byproducts-rules
More judges…
Attorney Aaron Siri testifying before South Carolina officials:
Another one: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/glaxosmithkline-plead-guilty-and-pay-3-billion-resolve-fraud-allegations-and-failure-report
Obviously, neither our population nor our elected and unelected government officials are keeping pace with the technological advances resulting in chemicals sprayed in our air, water and bodies. Time to pause theese uses until we fully understand the impacts to our civilizations, IMO.
https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-021-00600-y
the swiss need us more than we need them.
MAGA!!
Milton Friedman used to educate us on tariffs. A foreign country makes a widget and sells it to the US. But the US doesn’t have the foreign currency so instead of currency, the US buys the widget with trade of some manufactured item.
What do we gain by deleting both the import and export?
Looking forward to cheaper Swiss chocolate! [Drooling like Homer Simpson.]
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You know, there’s one group of people President Trump does not forget, in my opinion, and that’s the little man. Try to remember these other countries have them too. Not all who live in a Communist country are communist.
The Chinese don’t have much wiggle room. The average worker there as I understand it from sources that I follow is that a worker ‘s basic work schedule is 9 to 9 six days per week for an average wage of about $12k per year. Their real estate market is in near collapse already and idle factories are everywhere with many shortages in vital materials all of the time.
There have also been reports that I would consider very credible that they have been inflating their population numbers for years and that their true population is closer to 800 million and not the 1.2 billion that is always talked about. This would have a huge impact on their consumption and ability to gear up their future economic engine.
Well, if there’s 400 million less people in China, their consumption is less, and with at least 600 million workers, using your guesstimate, they should be producing vastly. China lies so much, that you cannot take anything they say at face value. I’m not sure how many slaves they have working for them either. Certainly makes one wonder what in the world is going on over there. They killed all their baby girls for decades on end. The CCP is the most inhumane cult on earth.
Operator> Economic crisis hotline how can I help?
Unidentified Caller> Our trade relationship is going down the hill and we expected the other party to come crying to us begging for a deal but they wont.
Operator> Have you tried sending a diplomat and an economist?
Unindentified Caller> No but we can spare a Hedge fund manager and a Lawyer
Operator> … try turning your trade relationship on and off again
I normally agree with Col Mcgreggor’s assesments….has anyone watched this? His take on the tarrifs came as a surpise to me. His views on Russia and Ukraine I have thought to be spot on.
Thoughts?
https://x.com/i/status/1919837304383812044
i think we are in good hands. Greer and Bessent impress.
Personally, I see this visit to Switzerland a move the Trump admin is making towards getting rid of the IMF, Fed and towards full control of the world banking system itself.
I’ve been reading that the Chinese economy is hurting badly. Stagflation. I feel for the ordinary Chinese people but the CPP must be stopped. They are a threat to the whole world. The richer they become the more of a threat they become. I’m so glad Trump is doing this.
I believe in paying what it costs. I hate offshoring manufacturing to countries with poor human rights and terrible environmental controls. If clothing costs more I will bite the bullet and pay. Same with groceries and gas. I will compensate by buying whole food, cooking myself and growing my own and I will be healthier for it. I will probably own less clothing but I will value the clothing I buy if it’s more expensive. It prefer quality over quantity and simple living is usually the best living. I like Trump’s plan. Individual trade agreements with each country. No more cheating. Every country must pull its own weight.
I thought President Trump had already met with a CCP representative, just yesterday in the Oval Office?…
Serious question for anyone who knows:
What is the formal (and understood) relationship between the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the World Bank Group (WBG), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
I know the BIS is sovereign and accountable to no one, nor any country’s laws.
China currently has 100,000 communists controlling 1.5 billion slaves. The end is near, and they seem to have all the foresight of an amoeba circling the drain.
I’m liking Bessent more and more. He’s got a dead pan dry sense of humor that sets hair on fire for many of the media. I love watching him and learning the intricacies of the treasury, money and negotiations. He loves this country for sure.
Trump sending his wolverines to tear up the Chicoms.