Looks like Beijing is raging mad over the latest tariffs implemented by the Trump administration, some of which are set to approach a staggering 250 percent.
Indeed, Trump outlined the most recent set of tariffs in another executive order issued by the White House,
“China faces up to a 245% tariff on imports to the United States as a result of its retaliatory actions. This includes a 125% reciprocal tariff, a 20% tariff to address the fentanyl crisis, and Section 301 tariffs on specific goods, between 7.5% and 100%,” the executive order detailed.
Naturally, China has not responded favorably.
As detailed by the New York Post, Xia Baolong, a senior Chinese official who oversees Hong Kong and Macao, has argued that the United States is effectively trying to crush them out of existence.
“The US isn’t after our tariffs but our very survival. The US has repeatedly contained and suppressed Hong Kong … and this will eventually backfire on itself,” Baolong raged.
And, as if to really emphasize his “point,” Baolong declared that “peasants” across the United States would “wail” in response to five millennia of Chinese civilization, and its apparent ability to hold firm against outside threats.
“Let those peasants in the United States wail in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization,” Baolong brayed.
Well then. Nothing like a bit of historical hubris to support one’s case!
“The Chinese people do not cause trouble, nor are they afraid of trouble. Pressure, threats and blackmail are not the right way to deal with China,” Baolong boomed.
Right … except for releasing a manmade virus that messed up the entire planet for two or more years.
That was arguably a huge form of “trouble,” but that inconvenient truth was left out of Baolong’s tirade.
Baolong also took aim at Vice President JD Vance, who apparently infuriated him as well.
Indeed, the New York Post found that Baolong’s comments represent “just the latest in a war of words with China,” which arrived shortly “after Vice President JD Vance had declared earlier this month that the US borrows from ‘Chinese peasants to buy things those Chinese peasants manufacture.’”
That comment sat very poorly with Beijing, as foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian ripped Vance’s comments as both “ignorant and disrespectful.”
“It is surprising and sad to hear such ignorant and impolite words from this vice president,” Lin angrily remarked at the time.
And that anger has grown, precipitously.
To the extent that China has apparently halted the sale of crucial rare earth minerals to the United States, in a clear effort to fight fire with fire.
“A few months ago, China banned exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony, and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications. Just this week, China suspended exports of six heavy rare earth metals, as well as rare earth magnets, in order to choke off supplies of components central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world,” the White House detailed.
What steps will the White House take to combat China from here?
The steps remain unknown, but it is quite clear that the Trump administration won’t be backing down from a long overdue trade confrontation with China.
Author: Jane Jones
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