Subject: Re: I must need to drink more Kool-aid
Maybe this isn't true.
Or maybe it is.

Guess we'll see:

https://nypost.com/2025/05/03/...

Despite their denials, China is losing the tariffs war and retreating as fast as it can

Hmmm. What possible evidence could there be? All I see here is BADORANGEHITLERMAN bad.

China’s foreign ministry even released a video claiming that China “won’t kneel down” to the US, warning that bowing to US hegemony would be like drinking poison. At the BRICS meeting in Rio this week, Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked tough as well: “Silence or retreat will only embolden bullies.”

Interesting. And lol. The *US* is the bully here. Wonder how many on this board agree with that statement? 90%? 95?

Trump divulged in a Time magazine interview on April 25 that China’s Xi Jinping contacted him directly about tariffs, and later affirmed that he has since spoken with the Chinese dictator “many times.”

Let's assume Trump is lying or exaggerating. What else?

The Korean press has confirmed that “the United States and China have begun behind-the-scenes contact in relation to the ‘tariff war,’ ” and a high-ranking Chinese delegation was photographed entering the US Treasury Department in the early morning hours of April 24.

Hmm. What is that picture?
At 7 a.m. on the 24th (local time), a high-ranking official of China's Ministry of Finance (corresponding to the Ministry of Economy and Finance) was seen entering the headquarters building of the Ministry of Finance in Washington, U.S., accompanied by an entourage of about 10 people. The photo shows a Chinese entourage waiting for the two sides to finish their meeting. They were wearing ID cards to attend the G20 Finance Ministers' Meeting, and their nationality was written on the ID. Washington = Kang Tae-hwa Correspondent [출처:중앙일보] https://www.joongang.co.kr/art...

Wonder why western news doesn't talk about this?

Anyway.
They are in the huge piles of containers that missed the April 9 tariff deadline, sitting in Chinese ports. These are filled with goods that the tariffs have priced out of the US market. Meanwhile, cargo bookings for container voyages between China and the US are down by half.
They are in deserted factory floors all along the coast of China, where workers are being laid off by the tens of thousands. Textile, toy, electronic, and furniture factories are just a few of the industries being crushed by the tariffs.
They are in the empty streets and shuttered shops of the surrounding industrial towns and cities, whose one-time customers — the now unemployed factory workers — can’t afford to eat or shop in their favorite noodle stand or convenience stores.

Guess we'll see.