On March 27th, CTH shared the following: “Wealthy nations will attempt to maintain exports against President Trump tariffs by subsidizing their industries. Corporations have deeper pockets, and the politicians are used to the bribes, we call it “lobbying.” Therefore, the government responds by subsidizing the corporations [ie. the WEF business model].
How does the politics of opposition surface? …”Canada will subsidize their export industries, Germany will subsidize their auto industry, the EU will provide subsidies to their manufacturing powerhouses, and China will once again start subsidizing their manufacturing industry. Each of these nations will in turn, eventually, devalue their currency.
However, poorer nations will be faster to lower import tariffs on USA goods because they have lower lobbying (bribe) income from corporations to govt. That’s what we should expect to see.” [LINK]
With the tariffs now triggered, it begins exactly as anticipated:
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The economics of the thing is now colliding with the politics and the ideology, of the thing. Globalists are being confronted. The proverbial West will cleave according to their financial self-interest.
The World Economic Forum (Build Back Better) model no longer views the USA as an ally. The MAGAnomic “Big Ugly” is underway. Countries will thrash and gnash their teeth; then surge in opposition, fail, then attempt to refoot and realign, then surge again and fail again.
And so it will go…
In 2019 Asia (ASEAN) was aligned as China was being confronted. The EU was the intended target for President Trump’s trade reset in term two as scheduled (2021-2025). However, COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting 2020 election threw a wrench in the plan.
In 2025 the EU focus is now a priority. ASEAN nations quickly reassemble on the original terms of Trump T-1. For Trump T-2, China is quickly moved back into adversarial position and focus returns to the previously scheduled look at Europe.
Yes, the EU understand the agenda; they know what was planned then and put aside. In Trump T-2 there is no avoidance mechanism that can be deployed. The only play the EU has is defense.
Europe is currently trying to arrange and coordinate a group of ideological allies to assist them. Those allies include Canada and to a lesser extent, Mexico. President Trump has shown a keen awareness of their best defense.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will not battle Donald J Trump. Factually, they all aligned their economic investment policy to gain from Trump confronting China. ASEAN countries will not battle President Trump; they will comply.
Africa will try to walk a fine line between China and the USA. However, Africa will not confront President Trump directly and, if push comes to shove, they will likely not support China using their belt-and-road leverage to attempt transnational shipping as a tool for U.S tariff avoidance. [Insert a Trump-favorable Russia into this regional dynamic.]
It is the EU and the workaround relationships they created within Mexico and Canada who will fight the global trade reset with ferocity. Everything in the geopolitical world of economic opposition to President Trump will center around Europe.
PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron called on Thursday for European companies to suspend planned investment in the United States after U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs on American imports.
“Investments to come or investments announced in recent weeks should be suspended until things are clarified with the United States,” Macron said during a meeting with French industry representatives.
The comments come weeks after French shipping firm CMA CGM announced plans to invest $20 billion in the U.S. to build shipping logistics and terminals, a plan that was hailed by President Trump at the time and mentioned again in his Wednesday speech unveiling the tariffs.
French electrical equipment supplier Schneider Electric (SCHN.PA) said late last month it would invest $700 million in the country to support U.S. energy infrastructure to power AI growth. (more)
The EU judicial and intelligence services hit Marine Le Pen for a reason.
Canada – Mark Carney, France – Macron, Ukraine – Zelenskyy, the EU Commission and Ursula Von der Leyen, all the way through NATO and into the German/Romanian elections and beyond, it’s all connected to the geopolitical dynamics of money, power and globalist economics.
Stay elevated. Keep watching. President Donald Trump is a master at the big picture stuff.
[ps. President Trump assigned every single one of those country specific tariff rates personally. Few understand why.]
I think I know why the countries paying newly imposed reciprocal tariffs won’t just eliminate theirs against the US.
It may be that on a level playing field the US will always win.
Is it analogous to a golf handicap? President Trump is a scratch golfer even at his age I’ve read. Those who are less accomplished would apply their handicap to compete with him.
I understand why he would want America to be top dog. However, other countries would lose market share against US made products. Their production levels would decline big time, while the US would grow exponentially to fill the short fall.
Is that a fair assessment?
freedom win’s, is the implication.
The funny thing is, that for all the noise that we hear from the talking heads, a lot of these tariffs are quasi-reciprocal. They don’t even reach the levels that we are being tariffed, and yet people (*cough* globalists) are losing their minds over it. It’s quite a sight to behold. Some countries are just getting hit at half or even less than what they hit us with when entering their market. Others are getting a very minute amount of tariffs due to to relatively good trade balances.
Europe will lose. They hate that America . Germany France Britan hate that the USA supplanted them in 1945 as the true World superpower.
Bring clothing manufacturing BACK to the U.S.A.
We can do it, low cost.
Enough with the exploitation of the very poor in foreign lands.
We now have the robotic loom.
From an AI search:
Robotic looms are designed to automate the weaving process, making it easier and more efficient. For instance, the RoboLoom project at Carnegie Mellon University aims to design, build, and deploy a robotic fully jacquard loom that has software interfaces to aid in teaching matrix math through weaving.
AI like NAFTA will strip the middle-class. AI is not a win for the working class.
Divide and conquer. Brilliant!
I heard on talk radio that China was sending unfinished products to Viet Nam to be completed and then sent to the United States labeled “Made in Viet Nam” to scam the U.S.. So does this make sense that Viet Nam is lowering their tariffs?
i guess it still means we get the stuff with zero china tariff. and viet nam gets overloaded with work.
Much rather buy things from Vietnam, than China. They are producing much higher quality goods.
We need to keep a close watch on Vietnam. They have a history of acting as a trans-shipping hub for China. Stuff made in China gets sent to Vietnam where it is re-packed and re-labeled to make it appear it was made in Vietnam. Then that Chinese-made stuff, now marked as made in Vietnam, gets exported to the US and elsewhere around the world.
A number of other countries also play that same shell-game. Vietnam is one of the worst offenders. Vietnam’s exports to the US and their imports from China track almost exactly (minus the handling fee they skim off for themselves.)
It’s possible Vietnam is offering to zero out tariffs on US imports because China is paying them to do so.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/made-vietnam-or-backdoor-chinese-exports