SCMP: US audiences were given a rare glimpse of Chinese-made electric vehicles and other hi-tech advances when a 20-year-old American influencer live-streamed his travels across China on YouTube. Medias like NYT, WSJ, BBC, CNN etc on all the fake news about China are exposed. 《南華早報》:一位 20 歲的美國網紅在 YouTube 上直播了他遊歷中國的旅程,讓美國觀眾有機會罕見地一睹中國製造的電動車和其他高科技進步. 揭露了紐約時報, 華爾街日報, BBC, CNN 等所有有關中國的假新聞.
Economist: How America could end up making China great again, beating US since Trump launch the trade war during his first term. 經濟學家:自從川普第一任期發動貿易戰以來,美國如何最終讓中國再次偉大,擊敗美國.
Despite all this, China enters the new age of MAGA stronger than in Mr Trump’s first term. President Xi Jinping has long argued that America is too polarised and overstretched to sustain its global role. One of his slogans warns of “great changes unseen in a century”. His paranoid nationalism used to seem like dystopian hyperbole. Now that Mr Trump is committing such wanton self-harm and general destruction, it looks ahead of its time.
President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc
F YOU failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States. It’s hard to know which is more unsettling: that the leader of the free world could spout complete drivel about its most successful and admired economy. Or the fact that on April 2nd, spurred on by his delusions, Donald Trump announced the biggest break in America’s trade policy in over a century—and committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era.
Mr Trump called it one of the most important days in American history. He is almost right. His “Liberation Day” heralds America’s total abandonment of the world trading order and embrace of protectionism. The question for countries reeling from the president’s mindless vandalism is how to limit the damage.
On economics Mr Trump’s assertions are flat-out nonsense. The president says tariffs are needed to close America’s trade deficit, which he sees as a transfer of wealth to foreigners. Yet as any of the president’s economists could have told him, this overall deficit arises because Americans choose to save less than their country invests—and, crucially, this long-running reality has not stopped its economy from outpacing the rest of the G7 for over three decades. There is no reason why his extra tariffs should eliminate the deficit. Insisting on balanced trade with every trading partner individually is bonkers—like suggesting that Texas would be richer if it insisted on balanced trade with each of the other 49 states, or asking a company to ensure that each of its suppliers is also a customer.
And Mr Trump’s grasp of the technicalities was pathetic. He suggested that the new tariffs were based on an assessment of a country’s tariffs against America, plus currency manipulation and other supposed distortions, such as value-added tax. But it looks as if officials set the tariffs using a formula that takes America’s bilateral trade deficit as a share of goods imported from each country and halves it—which is almost as random as taxing you on the number of vowels in your name.
NYT: No free lunch for Trump! China Retaliates Against Trump With 34% Tariff on U.S. Goods. The Chinese government said it would match President Trump’s tariff, and also barred a group of American companies from doing business in China. 紐約時報:川普沒有免費的午餐!中國對川普實施報復,對美國商品徵收 34% 的關稅。中國政府表示將採取與川普總統相同的關稅措施,同時也禁止部分美國公司在中國開展業務.
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, its newest version: Americans linked to the US in Hong Kong or mainland China will be ordered to leave immediately if they fall in love with Chinese citizens, it was revealed yesterday. 1882年《排華法案》最新版本:昨天披露,在香港或中國大陸與美國有聯繫的美國人,若愛上中國公民,將被勒令立即離開.
The new secret US government policy applies to American government personnel, and to their family members, and to any contractors with security clearances, AP reported.
All “romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens” are forbidden, the AP reported, quoting sources who did not want their names mentioned.
As well as staff in the Embassy and consulates in across mainland China, it also applies to the 1,000-plus staff at the consulate in Hong Kong.
BIDEN POLICY The confidential policy was first proposed by the Biden Administration in summer last year, the sources said. But it was promulgated by widely disliked U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns before he left China in January, the sources said. It is not clear why he launched the new rules on his way out.
People who already have Chinese partners may apply for exemptions, AP reported.
It is unclear how the policy can be implemented in Hong Kong. Residents here are technically citizens of China, but multiple passports are common.
The Biden Administration fostered an extremely hostile attitude to China, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into preparations for a war on the country.
In contrast, the Trump administration is divided—with Trump himself claiming to be the “pro-peace president” while Department of Defence Chiefs Pete Hegseth and Elbridge Colby want to move ahead with Biden war plans.
SCMP: Don’t get fooled by Trump! Tariff is paid by American, American importers and not China. US expect to see inflation goes up. Donald Trump announced an additional 34 per cent tariff on Chinese imports 《南華早報》:別被川普愚弄了!關稅由美國人民,美國進口商支付,而不是中國。美國預計通膨將會上升。唐納德·川普宣布對中國進口產品加徵 34% 的關稅.