China demonstrated how adults with responsibilities deal with a bellicosely erratic fool

© 2025 Peter Free

 

11 April 2025

 

 

'We gonna ignore you, Orange Boy'

 

Summarized, from ZeroHedge:

 

 

Around the close of Hong Kong trading hours, Beijing retaliated against President Trump's tariffs by hiking levies on U.S. goods to 125%, up from the prior 84%.

 

In a notable shift, the Chinese Communist Party announced it would "no longer respond" to any further tariff increases from Washington.

 

As the week concludes, the U.S. and China are locked in a heated, once-in-a-century trade war. Earlier, President Trump announced a 90-day suspension of additional country-specific tariffs for countries that have refrained from taking retaliatory measures—an apparent attempt to isolate China and use tariffs to get Beijing to strike a trade deal.

 

The State Council Tariff Commission announced that China will raise tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% effective Saturday. The move comes in direct response to President Trump's effective tariff rate on Chinese imports, which now totals a whopping 145%.

 

"Given that at the current tariff level, there is no market acceptance for U.S. goods exported to China. If the U.S. continues to impose tariffs on Chinese goods exported to the U.S., China will ignore it," the council said.

 

In a separate statement, the Commerce Ministry expressed, "Even if the U.S. continues to impose higher tariffs, it will no longer make economic sense and will become a joke in the history of the world economy."

 

© Tyler Durden, China Escalates with 125% Tariff on US Imports, Signals Will "Ignore" Future Retaliation, ZeroHedge (11 April 2025)

 

 

The moral? — And thus . . .

 

. . . China demonstrated how emotionally mature adults deal with maliciously idiotic American neocons.

 

Notice that by now ignoring President Trump's tantrums and his gargantuan shifts in world economic policy from one day to the next — the PRC is (probably realistically) demonstrating its manufacturing and economic power.

 

Chinese leadership has quietly pointed out that United States has become The Pariah Fool on the planet.

 

On a personally positive note (for him), Orange Man Bad has achieved his attention-getting goal.

 

We will see how much President Trump's consistently poorly thought out narcissism loots We the People's already fragile wellbeing.

 

The American economy cannot survive (in recognizably workable form) in an unpredictably unstable environment patterned by sheer lunacy and 180 degree shifts in policy direction.