China was the first country to ground them…

On Wednesday, a spokesperson for China’s Commerce Ministry dismissed the additional tariff hike, telling reporters that the move “fully exposes the fact that the United States has become irrational in instrumentalizing and weaponizing tariffs.”

“China has repeatedly stated its position on the unilateral tariffs imposed by the United States, and it has ignored the U.S.'s meaningless tariff numbers game,” the commerce official said.

He said beijing would take “countermeasures” and see the trade war “through to the very end” if Washington continued to “infringe on China’s rights and interests.”

China has shrugged off the latest U.S. tariff hike, dismissing the Trump administration’s threats as a “meaningless tariff numbers game.”

No. 77,000,000 Republicans wouldn’t even be able to figure out the instruction manual anyway.

Why buy or collect personal data on Americans when they will just let you take it for free? Republicans are having their fire sale so they can speed run Project 2025.

Yes that was the whole point of the November election. Not enough people sent their message but 77,000,000 Republicans did.

It’s what happens when someone tells Trump that China shut off supplies used to make USA’s consumer economy functional.

This week, China imposed more export controls on rare earths, which include materials used in high-tech products, aerospace manufacturing, and the defense sector.

And then Trump,

executive order signed by President Donald Trump that launched an investigation into the “national security risks posed by U.S. reliance on imported processed critical minerals and their derivative products.”

It is a war.

It’s a war.

It’s fear. Republicans can’t deal with their own fear. They use hate instead.

His importance was underscored in a leaked text chain on Signal disclosed by The Atlantic magazine last month. In it, Hegseth named Caldwell as the best staff point of contact for the National Security Council as it prepared for the launch of strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

The order came after China unveiled retaliatory tariffs of 125% on American goods this past weekend, the people said. Those levies on their own would have more than doubled the cost of US-made aircraft and parts, making it impractical for Chinese airlines to accept Boeing planes.

Tell it to the author of the article you are commenting on. Not me.

If the sales pitch sounds familiar, that is because it is. Alongside OneWeb, a European firm, and Thousand Sails and GuoWang, a pair of Chinese satellite services currently under construction, Kuiper is the latest competitor in a fast-growing market for satellite broadband that is dominated by SpaceX’s Starlink. Such services are increasingly attracting the interest not just of private firms, but of governments too.

There’s 2 ways this could have gone down : CEO profits or government doing their job and managing society. USA chose maximum profit. Again.

This stupidity is because of their previous stupidity. They shut down coal powered furnaces before they had a not coal powered furnace up and running.

Exactly this right here. Worst part is all the Republicans in charge are not even on the same page. Chaos.

And just like last time Trump will give them money to not talk about it.

RTFA. Your comment is what China said. At this level trade basically stops. That’s the point.

“The bottom line is that the world runs on imported fossil fuels under the umbrella of the Pax Americana,” said Kingsmill Bond, an energy analyst at Ember, a London-based energy think tank. “As Trump destabilizes that, then people will look to their own domestic energy sources, which in most cases means renewables and electrification.”

The new order that Bond is describing would push the United States to the side. While this view is optimistic about global growth of renewables, heat pumps and EVs, it also indicates a slower and dirtier path for the U.S.

Bond argues that since most countries do not have plentiful oil and gas within their borders, they need to import it and have confidence in the stability of supply and pricing. As that confidence erodes, they will look to alternatives.

Most countries do not have substantial solar panel, wind turbine or battery production, so reliance on those resources would also require imports. But the difference compared to fossil fuels is that a shipment of solar panels, for example, can provide benefits for 30 years. The buyer isn’t signing up for dependence on daily shipments of fuel.