>"We’re at 157 percent tariff for them. I don’t think that’s sustainable for them," Trump said.>"They want to get that down, and we want certain things from them," he added.>Trump is set to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea next week.>Trump has also threatened to impose an extra 100 percent tariff on Chinese goods from November if China does not roll back its tightened restrictions on its rare earths exports.this won't end well
>>519813260The Chinese can practically just wait things out until Trump is out of office. The only people taking it up the ass at the moment are the American citizens.
>>519813392USA can't wait it out, AI chips and miltiary equipment can not exist without chinese earths.
>>519813260TACOTACO TACO TACO!
>>519813801AI and military are both memes, the US will implode the same way as the Soviet Union and will keep shuffling around obsolete military hardware to try and maintain relevancy in the face of Asia.
>>519814057>memesthis is what US economy holds on, this is what makes the line go up
>>519814404The line isn't really going up though, these are all just cooked numbers that have no real meaning other than their propaganda value to keep people trusting in an economy that runs on air.
>>519814057It's the only hope this country has, unironically. That's how fucked things are.
>>519814558entire GDP metric is speculation but that doesn't remove the fact that rare earths are important
>>519814610If America wants to survive realistically it should massively cut it's military spending for about a decade and divert the money towards it's astronomical debt. It's still not a complete solution but will at least buy more time. America's nuclear deterrent is enough to keep it safe for the time being. It's completely absurd how much money is being spent on a government agency that provides so little actual benefit to the country. A lot of that money is just being used to store, maintain, and safeguard equipment that has never actually been used for any practical purpose. Consider something like the ~10,000 Abrams tanks America has sitting around. Even after all that time wasting money in the desert to lose they never really used them for anything.
T A *clapclapclap*T A *clapclapclap*T A *clapclapclap*And TACO was his name-o.
>>519815005They may not be that important though since all the major production of consumer products is already happening in Asia and their use is really just needed for more niche markets like the military that needs a small dedicated American source. America is just currently spurging about China limiting access because American leadership is so incompetent they never develop strategic reserves until it bites them in the ass.
>>519815367eh, you don't understand whats going on
>>519813260Probably no big deal signed until they meet again in China next year
>>519816133US economy will collapse until then.
>>519815961There's not that much going on. The biggest disappointment people could ever experience is gaining some powers that let them look past the veil of government secrecy only to find nothing really going on. There's no pre-made plans for anything, there's no shadowy think tanks covering possible threat scenarios, there's no stockpiles of critical equipment or resources. Please keep in mind that America along with the rest of most of the world got totally fucked by Covid, which turned out to be nothing more than a basic cold, and in the face of the unknown threat at the time their strategy was to have people walking around with pieces of cloth on their mouth and standing apart a few feet with the "saving grace" of some untested rushed to market vaccine that didn't even work.
