https://m.economictimes.com/news/interna...432437.cms

If this is the garbage China wants to associate with then cut them off.

Maybe they can trade with Russia and Vietnam and see how well they prosper.

Trump needs to raise tariffs to 400%

OEMs needs to pull completely out of China

(04-19-2025 12:09 PM)BlueDragon Wrote:  https://m.economictimes.com/news/interna...432437.cms

If this is the garbage China wants to associate with then cut them off.

Maybe they can trade with Russia and Vietnam and see how well they prosper.

Trump needs to raise tariffs to 400%

OEMs needs to pull completely out of China

Exactly what Kevin O'Leary has been saying for weeks now.

(04-19-2025 12:11 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(04-19-2025 12:09 PM)BlueDragon Wrote:  https://m.economictimes.com/news/interna...432437.cms

If this is the garbage China wants to associate with then cut them off.

Maybe they can trade with Russia and Vietnam and see how well they prosper.

Trump needs to raise tariffs to 400%

OEMs needs to pull completely out of China

Exactly what Kevin O'Leary has been saying for weeks now.

Providing coordinates of our military is enough for me to make sure our markets are closed to them.

Let those miscreants fleece other nations.

At what point does the percentage stop mattering? Raise it to 1000%

(04-19-2025 03:41 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  At what point does the percentage stop mattering? Raise it to 1000%

Same point. China's economy will likely collapse without us.

(04-19-2025 05:36 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(04-19-2025 03:41 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  At what point does the percentage stop mattering? Raise it to 1000%

Same point. China's economy will likely collapse without us.

Heck--its already well on its way due to their housing market implosion---a healthy dose of layoffs due to factory orders drying up could potentially push it right over the edge.

Off-topic, but related to finally dealing with the Chinese threat….

I read a bill has been sent to the Governor’s approval to forbid TCRS (the State of Tennessee’s pension plan) and local pension plans from investing in Chinese owned companies. It is the first divestment from a nation state I can recall - at least recently.

https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInf...805&GA=114

(04-19-2025 03:41 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  At what point does the percentage stop mattering? Raise it to 1000%

At what point will Americans wake up to feeding predatory wolves may not be in our best interest?

It’s a known fact that we are half of all exports out of China either directly or indirectly through a third country.

Mexico and Canada are both guilty of this as well. Those products should be heavily tariffed so that those companies in Canada and Mexico can eat those Chinese goods financially.

And don’t think for a moment this is going to give me a gut punch. The majority of our products we sell come from China.

I’m not such a simpleton that I’m more concerned about my own well being than a threat to all Americans.

OEMs are pulling out of China. This move will accelerate that endeavor.

Chinese Tariffs if they remain will most likely ground their fleet of Boeing jets that will continue to need spare parts which will limit their capacity to move people and products quickly.

If this goes on for 3 to 6 months the Chinese economy will do a nose dive spiral collapse.

On China, found this to be interesting about China's actual population post-covid. Many believe the numbers are inflated by a lot. This person places the real population between 300-400 Million.
Others state that covid has claimed well over 400 million Chinese.





What does this do with tariffs and China...a lot. If the numbers are that inflated, there economy is tanking and has been for some time.

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(04-21-2025 12:58 AM)hburg Wrote:  On China, found this to be interesting about China's actual population post-covid. Many believe the numbers are inflated by a lot. This person places the real population between 300-400 Million.
Others state that covid has claimed well over 400 million Chinese.





What does this do with tariffs and China...a lot. If the numbers are that inflated, there economy is tanking and has been for some time.

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I'm skeptical that China's current population is actually 1.4 billion people myself - but I don't think it's COVID related. I think the one child policy enacted over decades did for more damage than the CCP is willing to admit. I'm thinking the tru population may be just under 1 billion. Purely hypothetical guess based on some info shared in various vids from the web.

I have said this before - Americans are greedy and (even worse) very selfish. Not enough care where their bling comes from, only that they can flaunt it to look "instagram / influencer famous"....

O'Leary is right - the only way you stop this is an over the top tariff that all but forces people to stop buying their schidt.

https://tradingeconomics.com/china/unemployment-rate

I’m sure these are as about as fake as our unemployment numbers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2708dl9n1o.amp


And China says they will not be bullied


Guess they are the only ones who can bully