Quote:Is China covering up bird flu outbreaks across the country? Local accounts and media reports paint dramatically different pictures of the severity of bird flu inside the country. President Donald Trump says a deal on TikTok will be decided before Saturday's deadline. We take a look at what he says about the app's potential buyers. The United States must be prepared for war in order to seek peace, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. We have more on his planned military upgrade with Japan to counter China. Thailand orders an investigation into why a high-rise building collapsed during a massive earthquake. The skyscraper was built under China's Belt and Road Initiative. 00:00 Intro 01:28 China’s Cover-Up Playbook Reused for Bird Flu? 05:05 Trump: TikTok Sale Deal to Come Before Sat Deadline 06:26 Hegseth: US Must Be Prepared for War to Seek Peace 08:25 Hegseth Promises Deterrence Against China Aggression 11:20 Thailand Probing Chinese-Built High-Rise Collapse 14:18 Bill Would Ban Chinese Nationals from US Student Visas 17:18 China, Japan, South Korea to Strengthen Trade Ties 18:38 Japan: Will Stay in Close Contact with US 19:07 China’s Smic Accused of Luring Taiwanese Workers

Quote:The main content of the program: 0:00 Intro 0:59 Can’t fight a war but tops at folding quilts! Just how strong is the CCP Marine Corps really? Their weapons systems are corroded by corruption—everything is just a façade. 7:55 Is Xi Jinping being abandoned? Omens of a dynastic change keep appearing one after another! China is about to face a major disaster! 13:48 U.S. 34% Tariff Increase on China: Companies Pushed to the Brink, Exodus from China Set to Intensify. 17:33 Manufacturing Exodus, Worker Unemployment: The Adverse Effects of the CCP’s Political and Economic System Begin to Surface. 22:18 Two Chinese women brawl on a plane and bite a flight attendant, causing a shock.

(04-11-2025, 10:56 AM)sailorsam Wrote: It occurs to me that China is exporting to us gadgets and toys

and we provide food.

in a real 'trade war' we should prevail.

if not this can push the US to more in-country manufacturing.

Quote:US Seeks to Use Trade Talks With Nations as Leverage Against China: Report

Washington is reportedly asking countries to ban transshipments, help stop China from dumping cheap goods on the global market, in exchange for tariff cuts.

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is reportedly seeking to add a condition in its trade negotiations with nearly 70 countries that would isolate China.
According to a report first published by the Wall Street Journal, Washington is asking other countries to reduce their trade and economic ties with Beijing in exchange for a reduction in tariffs.
A White House official familiar with the administration’s trade talks told The Epoch Times that he could not confirm but would not “wave off” the report. He did not elaborate on the administration’s strategy.
U.S. officials are reportedly asking other nations to ban transshipments, a practice that involves Chinese goods being minimally altered or simply relabeled in other countries and then sent to the United States.
Another strategy is to prevent Chinese companies from moving their production to other countries to avoid U.S. tariffs. In addition, U.S. officials are urging other countries not to allow cheap Chinese goods to be poured into their markets, a practice that many countries have already started to address.
On April 2, President Donald Trump announced a 10 percent baseline tariff on nearly every country and added higher, reciprocal tariffs on a number of key trading partners, including Japan, Vietnam, the European Union, and China.

Later, he announced a 90-day pause on the reciprocal tariffs for countries that have signaled their willingness to negotiate while leaving in place the 10 percent baseline tariff. He also said the pause would not apply to tariffs on imports from China, blaming Beijing for retaliating.
Currently, U.S. tariffs on many Chinese imports stand at 145 percent. According to the White House, some Chinese products, including electric vehicles and syringes, face tariffs as high as 245 percent because of the combined effect of reciprocal levies, tariffs imposed in response to fentanyl precursors from China, and Section 301 tariffs imposed during both the Trump and Biden administrations, which range from about 7.5 percent to 100 percent.
In recent years, there has been a rise in transshipment by Chinese companies to avoid U.S. tariffs. Trump has spoken about his plan to close these loopholes and has publicly called on Mexico to raise its tariffs on Chinese goods to stop China from using it as a backdoor into the U.S. market.
Trump has already signaled that he is willing to lower or pause tariffs if China agrees to negotiations. His offer was met with a public refusal from Beijing.
“The ball is in China’s court. China needs to make a deal with us,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a press briefing on April 15.
“We don’t have to make a deal with them. There’s no difference between China and any other country except they are much larger,” she said, adding that the Chinese economy is dependent on the American consumer.
In a recent interview with the Spanish-language program “Fox Noticias,” Trump said he might ask other nations to choose between the United States and China in response to a question about Panama deciding not to renew its Belt and Road Initiative contract with the Chinese communist regime.

In February, Panama announced that it would withdraw from the global infrastructure and investment project, dealing a blow to Beijing.
In recent days, Beijing has mounted a charm offensive to strengthen ties with U.S. trading partners in an attempt to isolate the United States.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping sought to promote China as a stable trading partner during his visit to Vietnam on April 14–15. While in Hanoi, he called for stronger ties with Vietnam and urged the country to resist “unilateral bullying.”
On April 11, Xi also hosted Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in Beijing and told him that there would be “no winners” in any trade war. During the meeting, he urged China and the European Union to join forces to protect globalization.
Trump said he would join his Treasury and Commerce secretaries on trade negotiations with Japanese officials on April 16.
“Japan is coming in today to negotiate Tariffs, the cost of military support, and ‘TRADE FAIRNESS,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Hopefully something can be worked out which is good (GREAT!) for Japan and the USA!”

(04-20-2025, 12:35 AM)727Sky Wrote: China's proven past out right theft and disregards for international law since 2001 if not before and yet no one has done a darn thing until Trump finally said, "no more !"

(04-20-2025, 02:03 AM)SomeJackleg Wrote:

(04-20-2025, 12:35 AM)727Sky Wrote: China's proven past out right theft and disregards for international law since 2001 if not before and yet no one has done a darn thing until Trump finally said, "no more !"

started in 1993  when hill and billary were in the white house. most favored nation for china and the U.S. china relations acts were just covers for them to get a look at U.S. production standards, and products.

lots of folks want to pin it on nixon, he might have started it, but hill and billary drove in the last nails that emboldened china.

(04-20-2025, 04:21 AM)727Sky Wrote:

(04-20-2025, 02:03 AM)SomeJackleg Wrote:

(04-20-2025, 12:35 AM)727Sky Wrote: China's proven past out right theft and disregards for international law since 2001 if not before and yet no one has done a darn thing until Trump finally said, "no more !"

started in 1993  when hill and billary were in the white house. most favored nation for china and the U.S. china relations acts were just covers for them to get a look at U.S. production standards, and products.

lots of folks want to pin it on nixon, he might have started it, but hill and billary drove in the last nails that emboldened china.

Remember all the rumors that Clinton sold top secret rocket guidance software and schematics to china.

In 76 when Nixon did his visit to China and signed the deal for trade and better relations it was because ( I was told or read ?) Kissinger thought we could make China a "mini me" of America..Sounded great back then but Alas people seem to forget how that regime had starved 20 million of its own people without much thought or the persecution/execution of 1000s by the Red Guard. 
 
Shame Mrs. G is not here to tell some of the stories from her youth as she was a little red book carrying brain washed communist until she woke up to their stupidity.

(04-27-2025, 12:38 AM)727Sky Wrote: CCP and Wuhan virus plus the way China subverts other countries

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Chinese construction, short cuts, cheap improper construction, and of all the 100s of buildings in Bangkok only the new Chinese tofu construction collapsed.

Quote:The steel scandal behind the collapse of Thailand’s State Audit Office (SAO) building has deepened after fresh test results revealed another failure by Chinese manufacturer Xin Ke Yuan Steel — marking the second time its materials have failed to meet Thai industrial standards.

(04-20-2025, 12:35 AM)727Sky Wrote: China's proven past out right theft and disregards for international law since 2001 if not before