Trump Ratchets Up US-China Trade War

Monday, October 13, 2025

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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-- 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 | Reply

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

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

Already posted ...

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Two for two today. :(

Oh well ...

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

Line go down :(

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

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 | Reply