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I can’t believe Trump appointed this psychopath, well, yes I can, U.S. Sovereignty is long f~~~ing gone… We are nothing more than a war machine and bottom bitch for Israel now, I don’t see anything changing. We even have U.S. Generals saying American soldiers should be prepared to die for Israel, not defending Israel mind you, but in wars of aggression they want…
Bolton VS Tony Benn circa I don’t know…
I guess all of Trump’s campaign rhetoric was just like Obama’s, empty. Someone else is running the show cause it sure as f~~~ ain’t U.S. Presidents…ISIS has been cleaned up by Russia in Syria (our alleged reason for being there uninvited), and yet we remain. Trump keeps saying we are pulling out, nothing doing on that front, just training proxy armies at this point fueling the never ending bulls~~~ over there…
Bolton is a f~~~ing madman. The ever increasing Libertarian base that helped get Trump elected is surely jumping ship left and right. I highly doubt Trump gets reelected. Democrats can run Rosie O’Donnell and my money is on her handing Trump his lunch in 2020.
A Madman on the National Security Council
“Bustani said he “owed nothing” to the US, pointing out that he was appointed by all OPCW member states. Striking a more sinister tone, Bolton said: “OK, so there will be retaliation. Prepare to accept the consequences. We know where your kids are.””
https://www.rt.com/usa/423477-bolton-threat-opcw-iraq/The Swamp is literally overflowing.
Texas and Arizona officials are deploying a total of 400 troops to the Mexican border, just days after President Trump’s order aiming to stop illegal crossings and drug trafficking, they said Friday.
Texas, which has the longest border with Mexico, sent its first National Guard members Friday evening following a news conference where military officials detailed plans to send about 250 guardsmen to its 1,241-mile-long border within 72 hours. Arizona, whose border with Mexico spans about 375 miles, plans to send 150 troops by next week.
The cartoon pretty much says it all.
IDK if we will get a wall but it sure is nice that Trump is doing something.
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6th Apr Update #1 : New China US Trade War
I add the link to the original post here
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Trump threatens tariffs escalation to $100 billion of goods.
In his latest salvo in the trade war Trump turned his attention to the World Trade Organization, lambasting their lack of action as “unfair.”
China, which is a great economic power, is considered a Developing Nation within the World Trade Organization. They therefore get tremendous perks and advantages, especially over the U.S. Does anybody think this is fair. We were badly represented. The WTO is unfair to U.S.
Then China hits back with two press releases – this is very very rare occurrence. The content in both is even more disturbing if you understand how the Chinese use – or not use – civility in their responses
The Chinese envoy to the EU just said the European Union and China “must act together” to counter US protectionism.
“The Chinese side will follow suit to the end and at any cost, and will firmly attack, using new comprehensive countermeasures, to firmly defend the interest of the nation and its people,” the Commerce Ministry said in a statement on its website on Friday.
“We don’t want a trade war, but we are not afraid of one.”
China’s Xinhua news – unofficial mouthpiece of the Party quoted China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
“We Chinese do disdain that Washington, which is in no position to initiate a trade war with China, persists in wielding the tariff baton. We are fully able to inflict as same losses on the US as those on China. The US will have to repay whatever loss and harm it has caused on China with huge economic and political cost.
“The White House’s latest proposal will hit Chinese exports to the US, and in response China will make a sweeping counter attack at US exports to China. China can retaliate at a wide range of areas including US goods exports to China, service exports and the US’ highly profitable investment in China.
“It takes both strength and willpower to engage in a large-scale China-US trade war. While the two countries are about evenly matched in trade power, the future is on China’s side. The trade war will cause pain for China, but in the meantime it can force China to speed up its economic transformation. What the US is losing in this process is its future. Many leading US companies will lose the Chinese market and thereby lose their edge. The US’ modern agriculture industry will be dealt a heavy blow.
“China won’t back off. The Chinese society will unite around the Party and the government to weather through the hardships, which is unparalleled for the US. More importantly, in the trade war launched by the US, China is on the righteous side safeguarding multilateral trade rules and our own rights on this basis.
“Chinese are aware that the only option now is to hit the US hard enough so that it will remember the pain. Otherwise Washington will go more recklessly and cause more losses.
“When Zhu Guangyao, China’s vice finance minister, and Wang Shouwen, vice commerce minister, announced proportionate tariffs on $50 billion US goods exported to China at a press conference on April 4, the short video got more than 2 million likes in two days. That is how Chinese people feel.
“It is not only the Chinese government’s decision, but the choice of society to firmly strike back against the US pressuring moves at any cost. Chinese society has been mad at repeated threats from the US in these years. Even if the Trump administration wants to take the trade war to the direction that bilateral trade and investment is suppressed to zero, China will meet all the challenges.
“Based on information we have received, Chinese authorities have made detailed response plan with many specific measures. Relevant Chinese government departments are fully confident in our ability to hit back at Washington, safeguard China’s interest and defend the multilateral system.
“Most Americans have their life linked with China-US trade.
“As the tensions escalate, we want to expand the trade war to all Americans so that they have to choose whether to support Trump’s unscrupulous move or to hold the president accountable.”
Civility is very important to the Chinese conducting official business. This deliberate removal of civility for Washington in the Chinese response is a deadly serious warning that the gloves will come off if need be.
Meanwhile the DJIA shows general price action of buying the dips after each tariff salvo, which saw institutional investors hedging their positions.

In the 12 hours or so since President Trump announced plans for $100 billion in additional tariffs on China, offshore yuan has tumbled 300 pips (3%). This is understood as a mini-devaluation of the yuan by the PBoC.
It is not clear if this a shot across the bow for Washington or a test case to see market reaction – or perhaps both.

This quote by the Chinese News agency before the devaluation
“If the trade war happens, China will show that it has just as many reserve plans as the US, if not more. Chinese experts suggest that China could even take actions to weaken the strength of its currency.
“Since China is the world’s largest trading economy and the largest buyer of commodities like oil products, China could use its influence to push its own currency, RMB, in global markets to reduce the dominance of the US dollar. That would be a heavy blow to Washington.”
Of course, China could still take other measures – like curbing package tours or student transfers to the U.S., or steps against American companies’ operations in China; or the final threat of ‘going nuclear’ by withdrawing from US Treasury auctions, maxi-devaluing its currency (think of the Aug 2015 turmoil), or a more petrodollar-focused retaliation.
As Petromatrix managing director Olivier Jakob wrote in a recent reports, if the trade war between U.S. and China continues “there is a risk for oil prices that China uses the bazooka option it has on U.S. crude oil exports,” which would be to curb shipments from America.
China is one of the biggest importers of U.S. crude at ~400k b/d, so any counter-tariffs on crude could become very heavy for the U.S. supply and demand picture, and would weigh on U.S. prices and spill over to global oil pricing.
Since the opening of the petro-yuan futures last week and expected petro-yuan to parallel the US petro-dollar in the later part of 2018, China has effectively neutralised possible US sanctions related to trade.
It is clear that the Chinese Government is prepared to take this trade war head – on.
Citations
[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-06/stocks-tumble-china-urges-americans-rise-against-unscrupulous-president
[2] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-06/stealth-retaliation-yuan-weakens-300-pips-trump-doubled-down-china-tariffs
[3] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-06/tit-tat-trade-tariffs-reach-limit-will-china-go-nuclear
[4] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-05/china-declares-trade-war-victory-warns-us-suffering-after-crushing-counterattack


