Sunday, April 27, 2025

China Cancels 12,000 Metric Tons of US Pork Shipments

China canceled 12,000 metric tons of United States pork shipments amid a high-stakes trade standoff between the superpowers, according to data released Thursday.

Posted by qcp at 07:31 PM | 21 COMMENTS | permalink

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Gee whiz. I wonder if this will have any negative effect on Americans?

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-25 10:32 AM

#1: Hi Zed, we should ask Eddie Murphy as he might know: youtu.be

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-25 10:36 AM

You go now! You been here 4 hours! Eat some vegetable!

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-25 11:12 AM

John Pinette was hilarious.

#4 | Posted by qcp at 2025-04-25 01:31 PM

China seems to have called Pres Trump's bluff on tariffs.

Pres Trump seems to have a need to lie about talks going on with China, while China is denying that any such talks are occurring.


China social media seems to be enjoying Pres Trump's retreats ...

China trolls the Trump administration with AI, satire, and mockery
www.moneycontrol.com

... As tensions escalate between the United States and China, Chinese internet users -- from nationalist influencers to irreverent creatives -- are unleashing a wave of online trolling aimed at President Donald Trump and his administration. Fuelled by artificial intelligence, satire, and sharp cultural commentary, the digital jabs are as creative as they are cutting, painting the US leadership as absurd, out of touch, and authoritarian, the New York Times reported.

From parody songs to drag satire

One of the most widely shared pieces of political satire is "The Song of MAGA," a parody produced by a former YouTuber known for mocking Chinese President Xi Jinping. The video reimagines Trump, US Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Elon Musk as Maoist-style Red Guards chanting pro-Trump slogans while holding red books beneath a giant banner proclaiming "SERVE THE PEOPLE." Set to the melody of a 1960s Chinese revolutionary anthem, the lyrics mimic Cultural Revolution propaganda ...

Vance, in particular, has become the focus of intense trolling after calling Chinese citizens "peasants." In one A.I.-generated video, a heavily made-up character resembling Vance applies eyeliner while promoting "hillbilly brand eyeliner -- made in China." Another meme shows a cartoon peasant confronting Vance: "Do you realize your tariff policy will raise the price of your eyeliner?"

Vance is now widely known across Chinese social media as "the eyeliner man." ...


[entire article is worth a read if you're interested in China's view of the US, imo]

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 06:19 PM

@#5 ... Vance, in particular, has become the focus of intense trolling after calling Chinese citizens "peasants." In one A.I.-generated video, a heavily made-up character resembling Vance applies eyeliner while promoting "hillbilly brand eyeliner -- made in China." Another meme shows a cartoon peasant confronting Vance: "Do you realize your tariff policy will raise the price of your eyeliner?"

Vance is now widely known across Chinese social media as "the eyeliner man." ...


Yeah, that's gonna leave a smear.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 06:43 PM

whoops

#7 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-25 06:48 PM

Vance is now widely known across Chinese social media as "the eyeliner man." ...

True, but I don't think its just China.

Seriously though this is good news for us bacon lovers.

Does anyone else like bacon?

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-25 07:09 PM

China seems to have called Pres Trump's bluff on tariffs.

True, but both countries are hurting.

This won't end well, at the end of this "transition" time China will win. Americans just don't play the long game.

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-25 07:10 PM

I wonder how that will affect Smithfield Foods. They are Chinese owned.

#10 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-25 07:16 PM

@#10 ... I wonder how that will affect Smithfield Foods. They are Chinese owned. ...

I didn't know that.

The effects of that may be interesting, especially since any semblance of rationality seems to be missing in Pres Trump's capricious tariff policies.



#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-25 07:20 PM

Smithfield foods was bought out by a Chinese form back in 2004. They are the largest hog producers in the country.

#12 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-04-25 07:32 PM

Had a really good Easter ham this year.

Best of luck to pig farmers.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 08:24 PM

From the Googs:

Pig farmers are also known as hog farmers or swineherds.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 08:25 PM

So... China's Pres Xi seems to be serious.

Now going after American farmers. Will Pres Trump's tariffs be able to pay for the the subsidizes Pres Trump now may have to give pork farmers?

Does not look like China is backing down to me ....

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-27 07:54 PM

All this... just to own someone like meeeeeeeeeeeeeee... I feel so flattered.

#16 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-04-27 08:53 PM

No worries! Fishpoo says Trumpy has got this because Dems don't know what to do!

And I for one believe this random hater who posts random Russian agitprop to fluff up Trumpy on the internets.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-28 01:27 PM

Good thing I don't raise pigs or soy beans or build 737s.
And good thing that temu stocked their American warehouses before the tariffs were announced. Just got a bunch of stuff from temu Texas.

#18 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-28 05:28 PM

One: China has stuff we need and want. All America has to offer is consumers. They can source everything elsewhere. And it wouldn't take much for Xi to convert China's economy from infrastructure to consumer based.

#19 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-28 05:31 PM

12.

Recently bought the 22oz. family size Smithfield original bacon. They forgot to put "prosciutto-sliced" on the package. What a mess.

Otherwise a big Smithfield fan.

#20 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-04-28 09:34 PM

Seriously though this is good news for us bacon lovers.
Does anyone else like bacon?

#8 | Posted by oneironaut

Likely to send the price of bacon up.

I am not familiar with the economics of pigs, but I do know that Americans eat a lot of bacon. So I would not be surprised if we were mostly keeping the bellies, and exporting the other parts of the hog. If that is the case, the prices of what we do export would drop in the USA due to oversupply (especially things like hocks, knuckles, tails, ears, tongue, head... which Americans probably don't eat) but the price of the things we generally keep will rise to make up for the reduced profit they are making on the other parts. In the short term it may fall just because of temporary oversupply of the bellies we do send, but in the long term we would just produce less hogs because they are less profitable, which means a reduced supply of bacon in the US. So you can look forward to higher prices.

I know that chicken feet exported to other countries "subsidizes" the price of chicken in the US. That when chicken processors started selling them for a profit over seas it allowed the price if chicken to go down.

#21 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2025-04-29 09:19 AM

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