Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: China Tariff Deal? Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 07:41:41 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 13:41:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a7adc9750e5c42b02db197ea7878a12f"; logging-data="3944674"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18m+9dgbt35TUGomsJt34dE0XJrcFQopNk=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GcDhrBkhM6ec18u3lQ2hSf103QQ= Bytes: 2372 On Fri, 16 May 2025 08:14:10 -0300, Shadow wrote: >On Fri, 16 May 2025 01:31:31 GMT, cyclintom >wrote: > >>On Thu May 15 18:03:50 2025 John B. wrote: >>> >>> In the real world the US amounts to 14% of >>> China's foreign trade. > > That much ? Probably about right. The US is only 4% of the >world's population. >> >>OK, then I guess you don't understand that the US can tell other countries to stop doing business with >>China > > Are you quoting Star Wars ? > The rest of the Real World is avoiding doing business with the >US. > Which is why Trump is desperately trying to make his tariffs a >"win". > The US lost, China won. > Or maybe is was a con all along. People close to Trump won a >LOT of money with insider trading. Money that pensioners and workers >lost.... > >> ande make that 14% more than 50%. Funny thing, the world being protected by the US nuclear umbrella. > > ??? > Yes, must be Star Wars... > Let me guess .... he'll be dropping nuclear weapons on Europe >because they're turning to China as more reliable partners ? LOL. > You have such a vivid imagination you should write a book. > []'s The only people who lost were the dumbshits who listened to the fear mongers and sold. -- C'est bon Soloman