Several things have become evident a few weeks into Donald Trump’s big beautiful tariff strategy. The most beautiful tariffs – like nobody’s ever seen. The world needs the United States as a trading partner more than we need them. If pressure is applied, America can get concessions on a long list of issues to our benefit, which was the point. Utilize tariffs to repair broken relationships that are detrimental to American workers and the United States as a whole.
And that includes China.
The experts predicted devastating economic consequences from a trade war with China. They were right. China is screwed six days a week and twice on Sunday. Already lousy unemployment is expected to increase exponentially as up to 35 million jobs could be lost. This is an economic environment in which as many as 4 in 10 younger workers cannot find a job.
Lee, an employment agent in Anhui Province, one of China’s major production bases of solar panels and electric cars, said he has seen a drastic change in the job market.
“Many industries are in decline; lots of factories went bust,” he said. “Many factories furloughed their workers, who are now limiting their consumption because they can’t make money.”
The cascade hitting China is the scenario that pundits predicted for America when the big, beautiful tariffs went into effect. It hasn’t happened here. Prices are stable. Energy costs are coming down. Grocery prices have stabilized and in some cases declined. And there is a massive increase in investment coming to the US … to avoid the tariffs. They create jobs here while China loses jobs.
In a stunning reversal that validates President Donald Trump’s hardline stance, China caved on Tuesday and lifted its punitive 125% tariff on American ethane imports. …
Just last week, Chinese officials began rolling back tariffs on American semiconductors. They’ve also quietly removed duties on pharmaceuticals and aircraft engines. So much for the hysterical predictions that Trump’s trade policies would wreck the U.S. economy — it turns out that all that doom and gloom should have been reserved for China, which has realized the hard way that it needs the United States more than the United States needs China.
I have not looked, but this seems like important news for the homeland. Are the Prog’s Handmaiden Media covering this? The local ABC affiliate hasn’t, nor could I find any mention in the state’s largest paper. I guess it’s not news if it’s good news, but given where we were under Biden/Harris, things are stable, improving, and the most understated truth of all – someone is trying to do something for average Americans.
Mr. Trump is more interested in getting a better deal that will allow us to improve our lives than in what the global elites think. And while that’s good news, assuming things continue to trend as they have, when will the naysayers and prognosticators of doom – likely many of the same names who said the same things in 2017 and were wrong – realize they know a lot less about trade, deal making, and the economy, that the orange man?
No, I’m not expecting any of them to admit they got it wrong. Nor could there be much in the way of praise. They will stop talking about it at best or settle for scrabbling through the bits to find something they can spin. We know this to be true because we’ve been here before.
It will be up to us to remind the people who don’t have time to pay attention to every detail. They’ll have noticed in their own way, but the political left will forecast doom, peddle lies, and do whatever it takes to win back Congress in 2026.
We can’t let that happen. While it moves like Molasses when Republicans are running it, Dems manage to advance their priorities like shit through a goose.
The government should move slowly. Speed is detrimental to human liberty. Unless we’re talking about rolling back the bureaucrat superstate, codifying protections from it into law, and – while they’re at it – gutting agencies for good while cutting taxes to trigger more investment and growth.
We’re winning, but only if everyone knows we’re winning.
One more point. Trump’s strategy is not just a trade war but an actual war by other means. No shots fired, but the Chinese Economy was already unstable. High unemployment and rising costs force it to address the threat of millions of Chinese milling about in misery with nothing to do but blame the government.
