Monday, October 13, 2025

Trump Ratchets Up US-China Trade War

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was raising tariffs on Chinese exports to the U.S. to 100% and imposing export controls on "any and all critical software" in a reprisal to recently announced export limits by China on rare earth minerals critical to tech and other manufacturing.

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China blames Trump and US for escalating trade war on.ft.com/3W1rnMM

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-- Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) Oct 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM

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... An earlier post from Trump on Friday signaled new levies against Chinese goods were in the offing, and threatened to cancel a meeting with President Xi Jinping.

That broadside against Beijing sent markets and relations between the world's largest economies into a spiral. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 06:05 PM

Related ...

Dow drops almost 900 points, S&P 500 declines the most since April after Trump's new China tariff threat
www.cnbc.com


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 06:06 PM

I missed this in a scan of prior comments ...

Already posted ...

drudge.com

Two for two today. :(

Oh well ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 06:10 PM

Line go down :(

#4 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2025-10-10 06:19 PM

That's the problem with trade wars with China.
Twenty weeks after you start one you're hungry again.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-10 06:43 PM

LOL

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-10 06:45 PM

@#5

:)

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 07:43 PM

"America needs a revolution". As true now as it was in the early summer when he first spoke it:

www.youtube.com

#8 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2025-10-13 10:24 AM

Let's not overlook this for what it was....

Barron shorted the market in the hours before the tariff tantrum and made $80 million.

The corruption is blatant.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-13 11:42 AM

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