Trump tried to flex on China and got folded like a Walmart lawn chair...

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Trump tried to flex on China and got folded like a Walmart lawn chair...

Trump tried to flex on China and got folded like a Walmart lawn chair. The guy slapped on 125% tariffs thinking it was gonna be a WWE smackdown, but Xi didn’t even blink—he just escalated in silence, then sat back and watched America punch itself in the dick. Now Trump’s crawling back with a 90-day tariff pause for everyone else, trying to act like it’s part of some genius masterstroke instead of what it is: the most embarrassing trade war retreat in modern history. His fans? Total NPC meltdown. They’re still jerking off to the idea of “economic dominance” while ignoring the fact that the only thing getting dominated is their own grocery bills.

MAGA cultists are out here foaming at the mouth, coping like their rent depends on it. Xi didn’t just refuse to call—he clowned Trump, ignored every bait tweet, and then escalated harder while the American economy started shivering. Now inflation’s gonna spike again, markets are spooked, and your average red hat dipshit is online posting memes about “winning” while their savings melt faster than ice cream in Death Valley. Trump didn’t win a trade war. He walked into a buzzsaw wearing clown shoes and now the whole world’s watching him bleed out in real time.

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Hey MIGAnigga, how about you address the OP?

A tariff fucks china over a lot harder than it fucks us over because they are a major exporter you fucking retard

he needs to enact trade embargo on china.

China's exports to the U.S. now make up less than 2.5% of its total GDP, which is a far cry from the early 2000s when the U.S. market was seen as essential to China's economic rise. Over the last decade, China has made a clear pivot toward domestic consumption, regional trade, and investment in emerging markets. They've been actively building trade routes, infrastructure, and political influence across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, effectively reducing their exposure to U.S. economic pressure. Meanwhile, the U.S. still heavily relies on Chinese imports for everything from consumer electronics to industrial inputs, and the idea that America can just flip a switch and start making iPhones in Ohio is pure cope.

This is what makes China so much better positioned for a drawn-out tariff war. They have an authoritarian government that can absorb economic pain without electoral backlash, a long-term vision that isn’t dictated by 2-year political cycles, and a growing internal market to fall back on. The U.S., on the other hand, is walking into this with no coherent industrial policy, no serious alternatives to Chinese supply chains, and a political climate that melts down at the first whiff of inflation. Trump's bluster may work on cable news, but in real economic terms, China's just more disciplined, more patient, and frankly, more prepared.

Cutting off imports wouldn’t launch America into a golden age—it would hurl it headfirst into a dystopian economic collapse. Picture grocery stores with empty shelves, pharmacies out of basic meds, people fighting over rice and batteries like it’s The Road. Your iPhone? Gone. Your car parts? Unavailable. Your insulin? Delayed indefinitely, if not outright missing. Inflation would hit like a sledgehammer to the face, making essentials unaffordable overnight. The working class would be crushed first, but the chaos wouldn’t stay in the poor neighborhoods—it would rip through suburbia like a plague, exposing how fragile, bloated, and utterly unprepared the entire system is.

Meanwhile, the government would flail—printing money, issuing empty speeches, maybe even sending in the National Guard when people start looting for diapers and clean water. The average American, spoon-fed the lie that “we don’t need the world,” would suddenly realize just how much of their life runs on ships from China and trucks from Mexico. And by the time reality sets in, it’s too late. America’s not set up to rebuild. It’s not a rugged frontier anymore—it’s a gutted, service-based theme park running on credit and nostalgia. You don’t "bring back manufacturing" in a year, especially not when you’ve got a workforce addicted to DoorDash and dopamine. This isn’t resilience. It’s suicidal delusion wrapped in a flag.

Trump tried to flex on China and got folded like a Walmart lawn chair.

but that's not at all what happened?

That's a lotta cope no one is going to read, Chang

You know what I actually don't think the 125% tariff is enough, I quite frankly think it should be increased to 400 if China decides to raise it again

Show flag chingchongpong.

Trump just got geoeconomically gangbang’d by China and is now limping back to the MAGA crowd like it was all part of the master plan. Bro went in swinging with 125% tariffs thinking Xi would beg for mercy—and instead got stonewalled, outmaneuvered, and left on read. Now he’s simping for allies with a 90-day tariff pause like a divorced boomer dad handing out coupons to a birthday party nobody came to. And the MAGA cult? They're eating it up like it’s the Second Coming, shoveling cope by the fistful and pretending this wasn’t a full-blown diplomatic cuckening.

The denial is cartoon-level. These people watched their orange messiah try to alpha the second-largest economy on Earth, get zero concessions, get mocked, and now he's flailing around hoping the pain he caused won't hit Americans. MAGA Twitter is acting like Xi just got owned when in reality Trump got led into a trade trap, publicly humiliated, and now China’s just waiting—calm, patient, deadly—for the economic pain to trickle into swing state suburbs. Trump didn't win shit. He pissed off the world, nuked consumer confidence, and now he's stuck pretending a self-inflicted wound is some galaxy-brain strategy.

It's real in their minds.

He literally crashed the Hong Kong market by 30% and the Shanghai stock index by 13, what are you on about?

Don’t forget, the Yuan is the weakest it’s been since 2007.

A drawn out tariff war allows the US to onshore production and become independent of chinese trash, idiot.

Plus any slowing of China's economy as their massive millienial male generation ages out fucks it over ultra hard.

Thats why Orange blinked?

Yes because america imports all its food you stupid fucking glownigger

By most serious measures, Trump is getting humiliated on the global stage right now, especially by China.

Here’s why:

He expected China to cave. Trump’s tariff hike to 125% was a gamble that China would flinch, pick up the phone, and come crawling back to the table. Instead, Xi doubled down with 84% retaliatory tariffs and silence. No calls. No begging. Just escalation and state planning meetings to reinforce China’s economy.

He had to backtrack. Simultaneously announcing a 90-day pause for 75+ countries—while trying to isolate China—exposes how thinly stretched the U.S. is. He’s trying to avoid a multi-front disaster while keeping the China narrative alive for domestic optics. It’s a strategic retreat, masked as magnanimity.

Markets know it. While stocks bounced on the pause news, insiders and analysts are already seeing the cracks. The U.S. consumer will bear the brunt of this war, inflation risks are back on the table, and bond yields show a risk-off sentiment building.

So yes, Trump’s been humiliated—by his own overconfidence, by a misreading of China’s resolve, and by the fact that he blinked first everywhere except the one place he thought he’d win.

He got china to think itd be the world against the US so they responded harshly and then turned the tables on their ching chong asses.

Turns out it was 1v1

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This is the biggest cope on Anon Babble. If someone posts something a MAGA can't address, they are just accused of being a jew, a chink, etc.

HEY RETARDS GUESS WHAT

If those arguments REALLY were so bad, you could defuse them in a second with a reply explaining why the reasoning is bad.

INSTEAD we get REEEE JEEEEWWSS and the reason is because the MAGA mind can't stand seeing any bit of reason that is against their dear leader. The premise and conclusion is that DJT is right and these fools will do anything necessary to preserve the illusion because they have entangled their weak egos with his.

Attack the argument and not the man!

I didn't vote for trump and I don't vote period.
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There has never been a good post by a meme flag ever

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I didn't read any of that, I'm glad for you or sorry that happened to you. Try using a normal flag and I might deign to grace your posts with my eyes.

You are a weak minded faggot that attacks the man and not the argument. When you see an argument you can't rebut you say JEW, MEMEFLAG.

I feel bad for you. A mind set in stone is not one that will succeed.

Trump played himself. He thought tariffs were some kind of macho flex, like slapping a sticker on China would magically bring factories back and make America great again. But instead of breaking China, all he did was break his own economy’s supply chain, jack up prices, and piss off the same voters he swore he’d save. Now China doesn’t even need to fight—they just need to wait. Every day the tariffs stay, American businesses eat higher costs, consumers bleed more at the register, and the illusion of control slips further out of Trump’s greasy hands. He handed Beijing the high ground, and they know it.

China’s move now is patience. Let the Midwest scream when exports dry up. Let Wall Street flinch as uncertainty mounts. Let the American public simmer under the weight of rising inflation and empty promises. They’ve already built alternate trade routes, diversified suppliers, and fortified their economy for long-term attrition. Meanwhile, Trump is stuck waiting for a phone call like a desperate ex, hoping China blinks first. But they won’t. They don’t have to. Trump lit the fuse and boxed himself in. All China needs to do is let the fire spread.

I'm amazed that the United State is still the most technologically advanced nation on Earth and is still the only viable nation engaged in space exploration, yet we can't manage money or manufacture our own junk. James Webb Telescope and the recent asteroid deflection prove we're the only player in that game, but when it comes to domestic politics and international affairs, we're a circus.

Who talks like this

Yeah I'm still not reading any of that lol

This is it? This is what you cooked up in response?

China exports make up 60% of its exports

60%? I meant 40 percent

I said 40%? I meant 15%

15%? That was a typo, it's supposed to be 6%

Who said 6%? It's actually 2.5%

Americans are clinging to nostalgia because it's easier than facing decline. The fantasy of a 1950s-style industrial boom—good jobs, cheap houses, global dominance—is emotionally comforting, especially to a population battered by decades of stagnation and political dysfunction. But that world no longer exists. The supply chains are gone, the manufacturing capacity has shifted, and the workforce isn’t trained or willing to take those jobs even if they came back. Instead of adapting, Americans double down on nationalism, protectionism, and strongman politics—emotional reactions masquerading as policy. And while they're busy idolizing a past that cannot return, billionaires exploit that confusion, siphoning wealth, running monopolies, and feeding them culture war scraps to keep them distracted.

Meanwhile, China and other rising economies are positioning themselves for the next era: automation, energy transition, and multipolar trade. They’re building infrastructure, investing in AI and biotech, and reducing dependency on old empires. As the U.S. spirals into nostalgic economic theater, others are preparing for post-scarcity conditions—localized production, efficient logistics, and high-tech abundance. America risks becoming the angry, bloated empire yelling at a world that has already moved on. Emotion won't stop history. And the rest of the planet? They're done waiting.

This is why you don't read memeflag posts, ever
I shudder to think what sort of inbred thirdie is behind that keyboard

Who talks like this

Foreign propagandists who get paid 5 cents a post

Yeah I'm still not reading any of that lol

You are so proud to be so ignorant.

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didnt read

I'm not even nationalistic, I just happened to be born in America and I want America to do well for my own self interests. The facts still remain that Chinese companies steal American and European technology and ideas. At least the Japanese at one point where taking western technologies and making them better, I don't see the Chinese doing this at all. Russians are also a walking joke, can't even win a war they should have won in three months. Everyone in this board doom posting. I get the tariff drama is a self inflicted wound, but the United States has value beyond the dollar, we spent a century establishing dominance, that doesn't go away in one year. Also the moment the Chinese do succeed us, I hope Europe enjoys giving them head and being at their mercy, realizing how good they used to have it. Donald Trump will go down as America's Nero, this man has single handily mind fucked this country into comical levels of impotence.

Get another booster, faggot.

Beijing can't handle any blows to their export capability. They are even deeper in debt than the US is.

Anythingnto stay in your bubble, eh?

bro went in

Your IQ is south of 80 and you’re brown

A tariff fucks china over a lot harder than it fucks us over because they are a major exporter you fucking retard

They have quite a few other customers

Wrong.

the food tariffs Xi has placed on his own people finna make changs grocery bill go up 104%
you chinks import 14% of your food from the US

The Chinese are the largest producer of goods in the world. I don't think you understand basic economics to be engaged on this board. You're slapping tariffs on a nation that literally can cease trade with you and go about their business and sustain themselves. This is a retarded move not based on any rational thought.

Those customers do not have the capacity to replace US markets, and you know this. their economies do not consume as much as the US does.

Yeah let me know when all of europe has enough money to buy just as much as america does from china...in the exact quantity

It's like a drug addict threatening his dealer lmao. You're not even viewing this in the proper context. The dealer holds the psychological and financial advantage over the smelly AIDs ridden druggie.

Its a minor economic hit while they find new customers. The last US government tried to destroy the Russian economy via removing trade with sanctions and it basically did nothing. They found new customers. Its not as explosive as you're making it out to be

Drumpf saw the bond market, and pussied out

We are literally kneecapping their actual industrial output. Margins on chinkshit for them have been OK but they still have difficulty competing at selling industrial products which in no way can survive such a tariff.

What's more, our groceries will be cheaper due to less foreign demand and theirs will be much more expensive. We are putting them back into the slave peasant box where they belong.

China isn't self sustaining in an agricultural and material sense. Russia is.

cheaper groceries in a FOR PROFIT economy? Yeah you're delusional. I hope you're the first in line for a 90 hour a week factory job making $10 an hour.

they will find new customers

alright chang

the proper context is europe isn't going to flood its own domestic markets with cheap chinese temu shit nor does it have the corporations to want these things nor do its people simply have the living space to buy all the shit china produces

you are a retarded chink

K, keep me posted

You mean cheapest compared to the dollar? So more imports?

China sells a lot of cheap stuff, they need a big market to dumb all their crap, but also happen to have a huge presence in Africa
Why wouldn't it be possible for them to focus sales onto Africa instead of the US?
Yeah the purchasing power isn't as high but they could make up for it by sheer volume no?

Why wouldn't it be possible for them to focus sales onto Africa instead of the US?

Yeah the purchasing power isn't as high but they could make up for it by sheer volume no?

It's a nice thought but they make soooooo much less it's not equivalent. Perhaps if the standard of living continues to increase in Africa one day this would work, but the income disparity is such so that you can't swap in Africa for America right now.

The vast majority of countries aren't run as autarkies, that's not some epic weakness of China.

they won't have food!

Yeah that's why they've already bought up half of Africa and South America.

And why do you guys act like this somehow doesn't affect America at all? If the mega tariffs go ahead then massive companies like Walmart are pretty fucked. At this point the markets assume that Trump is just going to walk back the China tariffs like he has with the other ones

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im not reading or responding to this AI generated slop

you think trump gives a shit about anything than himself? he just did insider trading to enrich himself and his loser family. hes nothing but a scammer. years before he ran for president i walked into a supposed job interview that was ponzi scheme that trump endorsed. the people dumb enough to sign up with trump lost all their money are still suing him but him and his jew lawyer claim it wasnt a scam. This particular stock situation is the opposite of a pump and dump, its a poop and scoop. This is when an exclusive group of people with private knowledge do whatever they can to drive stock prices down—like announcing debilitating global tariffs—and then buy stocks up strategically right before reversing and making the price go up. And with this administration, the corruption is completely out in the open.

It's obvious you have never negotiated before. Trump never planned on high tariffs to be in place for too long. It was a tactic to get people to come to the table to renegotiate. And guess what? It worked, because that's what everyone is doing.
China will come to the table eventually since wr are there biggest costumer on consumer goods.

KEK.
I cannot quit trolling tradcucks because the only things weimerica produces are s()y and subversion.

It's not cutting off imports, it's about incentivizing companies to build in America and to allow American companies to compete again foreign ones on a more level playing field.
An American made clothing company can't compete with a company from China because we don't allow slave labor, so China is able to sell it's clothes to us at an under market price and destroy and American clothing competition.
If you don't under that America needs to start building again and that our company's should have the ability to compete globally, then I don't know what to tell you.

minor economic hit while they find new customers.

These don't exist. China has lost 10% of its market and a big chunk of the better paying jobs. Or do you think Africa will discover they suddenly need hundreds of millions of iPhones at $1k each.

They found new customers.

Russia did not. Russia switched to a war economy and is forcing millions to work in factories with nearly no pay. What's the economic growth on that.

That anon is just some chang with TDS. Pay him no mind

The market reacted to every other country being un-tariffed and was overjoyed when the chinese tariffs stayed. are you stupid? no, you're just obsfucscating that fact

KILL YOURSELF CHINK

allows the US to onshore production

With what factories? You let them rot while offshoring production.
With what inputs? China and Russia supply the shit you need.
With what workers? You waged war on the working class to the point where they've all withdrawn from society.

If you had even half the sense Putin had you would have secured all these things BEFORE telling the entire world to go fuck itself. Now you're fucked. So go ahead, let's draw this tariff war out. You might even benefit once your cities finish burning themselves down and all the niggers have killed and eaten each other.

yeah that's fair
one could try and make a simulation pretending that chinese involvement in africa will help them get out of poverty thanks to infrastructure etc but we all know how africans take care of their infrastructure and country kek

Because the market has no accurate way of pricing a political leader saying insane shit then walking it all back two days later lmao
Its basically unprecedented.

Aside from s()y and subversion, what does the west produce?

The chink middle class you been hearing about?
It vaporized yesterday.
Trump baited the thinks and singled them out, while bringing Europe and the rest of the world to the table offering to drop their trade tarrifs that have been in place for decades. This means American products like the Muh Stang GT will be available with like 400hp for $20,000 Euros. And America will sell more shit. Manufacturing is shifting away from China.

Any car or truck worth buying, you fucking retard. Toyota are made in North America.

Eat dog retard chink bug

That is a good point. I hate memeflaggots

It would be baseder if China kept its new tariffs anyway

Weimerica is 4-5% of the population.
They can find other buyers.
I dunno if you are aware of this, but instability discourages hard physical investments even more than it discourages fake and gay jewish number games.
The good cars are Japanese, retard. The only reason trucks also aren't on the list is because "green" laws force fucking giants.

China still exports to USA but now you pay the government 104% of its price.
Tariff is LITERALLY a tax. A custom duty tax if you will and you're paying it.

Yeah that's what I was thinking but the prices don't seem too bad

Prices where ?
If the tariff is 100% then a 300 dollars phone will be 600 dollars. That's pretty bad

IT IMPORTS THE THINGS THAT MAKE THE FOOD. Holy shit miggers cannot think more than 1 step ahead. I’m honestly shocked they don’t just think food blinks into existence on store shelves.

food can’t exist without international trade

Brainlet take.

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as ive explained, every other nation is too broke nor do they have the consumption capacity of america

do the chinese really not understand that every russsian, african, spaniard, european couldn't handle the amount of consumption america does? that they simply do not have the money to buy what america does?

need fertilizer, machinery, and manpower to grow food

tariff imported fertilizer

tariff imported machinery

deport migrant workers

Obviously these could be sources internally, but not in ten days. It would take at a minimum a few years to start domestically replacing those imports. Guess what happens in the meantime? You think farmers are just going to eat those costs?

Shits hilarious