Is this a parody account?
So China is sending all these products to the US and they are unsolicited? Don't be ridiculous. US residents and companies have ordered these products. Trump and people like you seem to think that China and other countries are forcing goods on you. None of my friends in the US get a knock on the door from a courier or postal worker with a cheery "Hi, here is a present from China. Free of charge"
Be careful of the use of the word Prison.
No one’s saying Americans didn’t order the products. Of course they did. But the issue isn’t that goods just showed up uninvited it’s that China rigged the playing field before those orders ever happened. When a country manipulates its currency, subsidizes industries, and blocks foreign competition with tariffs, it distorts the entire global market. American consumers didn’t wake up one day and decide to hollow out U.S. manufacturing those decisions were shaped by years of artificially cheap imports that domestic companies couldn’t fairly compete with. That’s what I mean by unfair trade. It’s not about boxes on porches it’s about how those boxes got so cheap in the first place.
China “invests in its people” has got to be the most delusional spin I’ve heard in a while. You mean the same regime that welds apartment doors shut during lockdowns, censors basic information, disappears journalists, and runs sweatshops and forced labor camps? That’s not investing in people that’s exploiting them. China didn’t lift millions out of poverty because they cared it happened because they became the world’s factory by cutting every ethical corner imaginable while the West looked the other way for cheap goods. And yeah, the U.S. screwed up plenty during globalization, but at least here you can criticize your government without ending up in a re-education center. And as for Apple? They’ll survive, sure but let’s not pretend they didn’t play ball with China’s censors and slave-labor supply chain to pad those margins. Funny how people scream about authoritarianism in the U.S. while praising a regime that literally writes the manual on it.
Yes. Chinese leaders don’t care about their people. For good reason. Voters are fickle. Democracy is overrated. As far as the average Chinese person is concerned Tiananmen Square never happened.To all of the people that think that the Chinese somehow will sway their government to get them to cave to the US. And, note that I don't know what will happen this time, as I'm no foreign policy expert. However, the last time there were millions of people protesting the CCP's decisions, I believe was this:
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Very similar to the US then. Trump does not care for the US people, except for himself and a few rich "friends". He also thinks that democracy is overrated.
are you still talking about China or the us?
Whatever. He is 2 for 3 with the voters. The middle class voted for him. He is more accountable to the voters than Obama or Biden were.
No. This is not apple specific and what Cook did had nothing to do with it. Everyone knows that the tariffs will cause a big raise in prices.
Huh? The entirety of Europe? China itself has a gigantic internal market. Australia, India, South America are importing Chinese EVs, literally most people on the planet use Chinese phones.
See Germany, 1930s
True, but the world beyond the USA is divided in different markets, with different rules. So certainly more consumers, but no unity in rules. Thanks to Trump, that can change….and probably will change.
Agree, but one could ask where this has lead to eventually….looking at present day Europe.
What you describe does not exist. Best wishes and I hope you can find happiness.
As long as they flatter him and give him enough money.
