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What would work great is no tariffs, no passports, no visas, no countries, no religion too
Imagine all the people living for today!
It's difficult if you try. But worth it.
Can you imagine, living for today?
And no borders?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The US have a shitstorm coming. That's what you get when you let a toddler play with the control knobs of the country.
Another very interesting point is how China made themselves so powerful. Anything with electronics needs some sort of resource from China. China is a very big and powerful player.
We should wonder if we want t be this dependant on one country for all our tech needs. I think the answer is no....
This is all just Japan from the 80s all over again. There are a bunch of movies from the period with Japan as the bogeyman. The peak probably being the backstory of Die Hard.
The key difference this time is the USA was paying for Japan's defense, had a massive military base, etc. China doesn't have that problem, so they can counter American demands with their own demands.
Interestingly, look at interviews with Trump from the 80s, he'll talk about Japan almost with the same language that he uses for China now. The most famous was probably an appearance of Trump on Oprah.
It's always amazing to see the media of the 80s just shitting on Japan. "Cheap mass market products that never work." "They're going to take all the American jobs."
In Back to the Future 2, McFly is seen as weak for having a job with a Japanese boss and getting fired for it.
Cyberpunk has Japanese decorations and cosmetics because it was invented when Japan was the yellow peril.
At the same time, Japanese-Americans were asking for reparations from the internment camps, charged with the crime of being Japanese and having all their assets sold off without any consent.
Japan was able to help get a start on the next generation of writers with the mass production of anime into Western audiences. Now if someone doesn't watch anime it's seen as weird.
Right now China is that "other" nation. I wonder if in 30 more years we'll look back at it and go "What the fuck were we smoking in hating people we never even had contact with? No Chinese person ever deported me. No Chinese person ever called me slurs."
What's funnier is that the Americans could have dropped Chinese raw materials if they had built a collaboration before tariffing China, but the current Government have only one tactic: try to bully everyone at once. They really did make their own mess.
The anti globalists were calling it 40 years ago and for some stupid reason it's a freaking fascist who is destroying the system that the left was fighting against back then!
Even liberals have been saying that now in modern times. Isolationism is a prime Republican message for a reason.
The line must go up so lobbying+no spines has ensured we haven't do anything about it. There have been are a couple rare earth mines here in the US but it hasn't been profitable and has been heavily subsidized. We needed some other source ready before doing something like this and we don't have it. So it's just stupid.
If only we had an ally who we could help get their territories back who would be more than happy to play for our team hmmm
You joke, but Russia is a better replacement for China than Ukraine. The territory is bigger, which means more resources, and instead of giving them aid USA can buy raw material cheap because they need money.
At least that’s the strategy I’d expect from your current administration, since everything is laser-focused on very short term profit.
Just wait until the Chinese cut off basic industrial inputs like chemicals, screws, nails, electronic parts.
US is just lucky they didn't start selling off and unloading US debt
According to the Trump that's exactly what he wants, countries to sell off the bonds they have in exchange for super long term bonds that defer interest for like 100 years.
Bold optimism that the USA will last 100 of any time unit.
That's not how it works, though? But alas... our white house isn't filled with our best, but rapists and criminals.
Good, make them suffer.
There are alternative sources for these . . . but the US has pissed all of those countries off too.
Don't worry. Russia is willing to work with Trump and Trump can say that Russia is its only ally.
their only ally is a country that plays both sides (and would most likely side with china if pressed)
this is hilarious.
They'd better not cut off supplies of fried rice and crab rangoon! We'll have a REAL problem if they do that!
Looks like coal's back on the menu, boys! (Ugh.)
Ha ha, but for real. They'll just turn people's power off, tell them to ration, and/or jack the price per kWh to 500% what it was.
Team Orange let's no good calamity go to waste. Everything is potential profit if you have no moral compass.
It's interesting to see that the circle of profiteers gets smaller and smaller each iteration, since everybody else is losing footing in the process.
Trump really got them.
His bluff didn’t work this time. He wants to play another hand. His shifty eyes are betraying his poker face. He’ll win the next hand! Who cares anyway, he’s not playing with his money.
Luckily Europe is one step ahead:
Access to clean energy and rare earths is critical for the EU as it seeks to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and boost its autonomy in strategic sectors.
But sizeable shares of the global mining, processing and recycling of some of the critical raw materials, like lithium, that are indispensable to the development of renewable energy, everyday items as well as defence systems, are controlled by China, from which the EU wants to 'decouple' due to its aggressive and protectionist trade and foreign policy practices.
Central Asia holds large deposits, including 38.6% of the world's manganese ore, 30.07% of chromium, 20% of lead, 12.6% of zinc, and 8.7% of titanium.
"These raw materials are the lifeblood of the future global economy. Yet they are also a honeypot for global players. Some are only interested in exploiting and extracting," von der Leyen told Central Asian leaders.
"Europe's offer is different. We also want to be your partners in developing your local industries. The added value has to be local. Our track record speaks for itself," she added.
Damn! First it was higher tariffs now this? How will MAGA ever get their swag gear?
Seems simple - just put a big tariff on war so nobody can afford it!
way to go trumpsky.
Shocking. I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
