>China needs to stop its unfair trading practices which are harming US national security and distorting global markets," White House deputy spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said.
>China said on Sunday that it would start taxing 128 mostly agricultural US goods at midnight on Monday, including a 25 percent tariff rate on pork products and a new 15 percent tariff on fruits and nuts.
ps >China said the US decisions had "seriously violated" World Trade Organization principles and "caused serious damage" to China's interests.
What were americans expecting? That China will just shut up and go away? Wow, they decided to retaliate? They're going to tax the US goods? Unbelievable, who would have thought that?! THAT'S CRUEL, IT HURTS the US economy. lmao
Juan Phillips
yea the agriculture sector is going to be decimated
i think this will open up negotiation with russia though
Connor Torres
Americans? No, blue collar trumptards started this bitch fight. The average American has nothing to do with this.
Bentley Long
Everyone engages in the shit China does lol
Caleb Rivera
I support China in this conflict.
Jordan King
>tfw Canada gets to keep flinging its crops all over the world regardless
>Americans? No, blue collar trumptards started this bitch fight. The average American has nothing to do with this. You literally elected these guys. I mean an average american is in charge of this shit, am I rght
Matthew Wright
canada has to squeeze where usa left, overwise canada will be trump's first victim
Owen Baker
> China's interests
Fuck China's interests.
James Phillips
>referring to DC as “Washington”
I got excited and thought this was actually about my state
Isaiah Russell
Americans expect China to get out of American markets. This is 100% pure protectionism, and nothing more. Don't try to draw larger conspiracies into this.
The average American would loose a lot if China ran major industries eg electronic hardware manufacturing, letting them spy on American webservice companies and compromise them. That's the logic here.
you make it seem like Hilary or Paul wouldn't have done this as well. Dissatisfaction with China's tech sector goes back to the Bush years, covering everything from IP law to buyouts of American firms. It's why Bush and Obama created the TPP, which Trump replaced with raw protectionism.
Justin Davis
I support US. China should quit its fixed exchange rate system any more!
Hunter Nelson
>Trump starts whining about 'unfair' trade with the US >HAHAHAHA BASED TRUMP IS RIGHT AMERICA TOTALLY WASN'T EXTORTING THE WORLD ALL ALONG WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS >China decides to fight fire with fire >NOOOOO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING, CHINA IS LITERALLY HITLER WE NEED TO STOP THE CHINKS
Amerimutts are the most retarded cunts to exist as an empire in the history of this Earth.
Liam White
Based China.
Dylan Taylor
>I support US. No wonder, Japan is a well know puppet of the US. You support everything that the states do, even if that hurts Japanese citizens.
>China should quit its fixed exchange rate system any more! China said the US decisions had "seriously violated" World Trade Organization principles and "caused serious damage" to China's interests.
There is no fixed rate exchange since 2005.
William Butler
On July 21, 2005 Chinese monetary policy makers surprised the country’s trade partners by revaluing the yuan 2.1% higher against the dollar, ending a fixed exchange-rate regime that angered officials in the U.S., Europe and Japan and depressed the value of Chinese goods.
Policy makers swapped the fixed exchange-rate system for a managed float that would tie the yuan’s value to a basket of currencies and allow its value vs. the dollar to fluctuate in a band around a daily reference rate.
Xavier Cox
year of US domination is over.
year of AUSTRALIAN domination has begun.
David Ramirez
The thing is that the states need to sell their agricultural stuff and meat somewhere. I doubt you can help
Tyler Cook
who cares about helping them?
Robert Robinson
>No, blue collar trumptards started this bitch fight. The average American has nothing to do with this
Those are the average Americans
Leo Peterson
The Japanese fear a 1st World China
Jeremiah Davis
Japan has lost, Japanese share in global economy is decreasing steadily. They are unable to compete already. For like a 10-15 years straight.
Why would a normal person even care about that let alone creating a thread to parade it to others
Brandon Carter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy Also an average person is often interested in foreign affairs and is also into good laugh. I found it funny when the US start to whine about "unfair" tariffs however they did absolutely the same thing few weeks ago.
Asher Harris
That was an accident, it will never happen I believe
Henry Ward
China isn't even remotely our largest market and ag is tariffed to hell in China anyway. They actually can't raise the tariffs much more or else they risk inflating food prices, which is going to make Xi's consolidation of power much more difficult.
Christian Davis
Alternative scenario: They raise the tariffs and a bunch of chinks starve because the CCP is also depopulating the countryside in order to drive urbanization.
Either way, we win.
James Roberts
It doesn't explain severe case of butthurt Washington has
Jaxson White
Washington isn't butthurt about the counter-tariffs. It's butthurt about the way the Chinese have acted after we went to bat for them to get them into the WTO in the 90s.
The US hasn't even begun to play dirty. This is just the opening volley.
Michael Brooks
>not my state >not my president >not my race >not my income range >not my age >not my education level
God, americans are such a pain.
Jaxon Gutierrez
Why? The Feds are already spying on us. Why should anyone (the average American) care if chinks do it too?
Just 24 hours before tariffs were to be enforced on the EU, the Trump administration announced it was exempting the bloc, along with Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and South Korea, while trade talks with those nations were ongoing.
Oliver Brown
Oh man, if there's one thing EU is good at it's at trade disputes. Would have loved to see us at trade war with yanks.
Sebastian Roberts
Russian pig still thinks China will fight against USA for russians interests.