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The U.S. government began investigating China’s dominance in the shipbuilding industry, where it manufactures as much as 75%-80% of fleets, during the Biden administration.

Steep levies on Chinese-made ships arriving at U.S. ports have been proposed, up to as much as $1.5 million, as part of a plan to bring more ship manufacturing back to the U.S., a policy which has bipartisan support.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is essentially adding another layer of tax or tariffs on imports, and more impediments to global trade. Basically, Trump is determined to stall trade with the world and fuck the economy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

good thing were tryna get brics to replace the us dollar.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump is gonna slide from ecnomic war into actual hot war pretty soon at this rate.

The Chinese aren't going to back down no matter what he does. The West is still reliant on China and the U.S. is pissing off everyone.

The economy already gonna be fucked, the question is will Americans stop him before he starts more wars? Doesn't seem like it unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

will Americans stop him before he starts more wars?

A really good question. Politically it seems like it's not going to happen, but I still have (at least naive) hope that the actual US mlitary would not respond on commands should the cheeto order active military operations against China. That would make absolutely no sense in so many ways, no matter how you spin it around, that I'd expect the boots on the ground would just say 'fuck off'.

But I also tought that the orange clown wouldn't have a chance on elections either, so we'll see. And also, I'm across the pond from US, so my information is mostly from European media outlets and social media around here, so take that with suitable grain of salt. I just rather not see the reality where US is fighting China and Europe is left to deal with Russia. Not because we couldn't handle that, but because that would be just bat shit crazy situation in my lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't he already fire the military judges that could overrule his orders?

Orange freak is counting on never stepping down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

What the US always does, is have the cia/nsa blow something important up, then blame it on someone (China, in this case). All of a sudden the country is ready to go to war with China.