Summary
U.S.-China tensions are escalating as Trump imposes tariffs on all Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to retaliate and vow to fight “any type” of war.
China is boosting defense spending by 7.2% while portraying itself as a stable global partner.
The fentanyl issue adds to disputes, with Beijing dismissing it as a pretext for tariffs.
China faces economic struggles but is injecting billions to stabilize growth.
If Trump continues escalating tariffs, the trade war could intensify, worsening global economic and geopolitical instability.
China faces economic struggles but is injecting billions to stabilize growth.
The sole manufacturer of everything we buy faces economic struggles. We better fucking hope they don’t because all they have to do is increase prices and we’ll bring them the money on our knees. Good planning on behalf of our capitalist oberlords.
I just caught myself almost rooting for China for a moment there. It has been a wild month.
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For a brief moment thought crossed mind but then when news came out they are considering sending in military to get experience in Ukraine and threatening Taiwan was a reminder that US and China are both enemies.
Would rather both countries destroy each other.
T-rex option
We need Godzilla.
Japan needs to invest into biotechnology, because Biotech is Godzilla
Also claiming the part of South China Sea that’s not theirs. And land dispute with india.
To your last part, that would likely end hundreds of millions if not billions of lives. The world population is several times larger than it was during the second world war. A conflict at scale between the United States and China would absolutely be a global conflict.
For no reason other than to illustrate how many lives another world war would take, World War 2 resulted in the loss of life of at least 3% of the world population. That figure in 1946 was somewhere in the range of 70 to 80 million. 3% of the global population today would be 246 million people.
I don’t point this out to be snide, just to say that it is absolutely a worst possible case scenario if the United States and China go to war against each other. It would affect the lives of every human being on earth. Those nations do not share land borders. It would mean widespread invasion and destruction of other nations in both hemispheres.
The world population is orders of magnitude larger than it was during the second world war.
FYI, order of magnitude = x10. otherwise your math seems to check out, but this got me confused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
I propose a hell in a cell match between the two Presidents.
If a war happens, whoever wins, we lose. :(
Yeah. War doesn’t determine who is right, but who is left.
The world would be better without this dumb trade war. People would actually be able to afford a goddamn car, which they only need because the elites took away our fucking trolleys.
“If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end,” China’s embassy said on X, reposting a line from a government statement on Tuesday.
Maybe something is lost in translation, but this sounds like they’re primarily talking about economic wars. My reading is that they’re just saying that they won’t accept US bullying, which is good.
China is just as jingoistic as America for domestic consumption. Both countries believe their own propaganda. It’s like pre-WW1 Russian Empire and Austria-Hungry all over again. Complete ignorance that any actual conflict would rip them to pieces.
The “any other type of war” part is definitely intentional though.
I can’t fault them for it personally. They’ve not been the ones going off the rails and stirring international shit.
Choosing this post among many others to say that I am tired of old men declaring wars they have no skin in, for a future they will never leave. The world is starting to mirror the mental images of their deteriorating brains.
winnie the pooh vs. a dumb sack of fat. 3, 2, 1, go!
Trust me, they aren’t. But neither are the Americans.
When a nation talks about being able to endure something they don’t mean the peasants.
Xi is definitely beating Trump at thumb war.
If you say Dumb War with a lisp, it sounds like Thumb War
These world leaders desperately want to be seen as tough guys but they’re merely overcompensating for their micropenises.
Gives a new meaning to sword fight
The sword is mightier than the pen is.
Pokemon battle, 3v3
OG red and green version only
Is green the version you got when combining blue and yellow?
Green came out in Japan instead of the original Blue in the West.
Let’s fucking go!!!
Economic, trade, soft power, cyber…sure, hell they stand a chance in those. Combat? Not even close, they would be leveled. The tricky part is using the advantage they have in the first few without receiving the kneejerk usage of the last one against them.
In actuality, the CCP influencing anything outside China (and arguably inside China) is a worst case outcome. The US doing so is very quickly moving up the ranks to the second worst. The world is going to need the EU, and allies, to step up and keep both in check.
Russia just beat us in a war and didn’t have to fire a shot. They’ll have to beat Russia at the disinformation/planting assets game first to win the war with Russia.
Me too, man, me too.
Any type of war?
I vote for a war where both “great leaders” beat the shit out of eachother
I was gonna say an all out thumb war between the peoples but I like your idea better.
Xi would beat the tar outta our bloated excuse for a head of state.
Oh yeah, I hate Winnie Pooh and I hope he’d have a heart attack before it’s over but Pooh would totally beat the stuffing out of Cheeto, so my money would be on Pooh bear
Honestly facts it would be so embarrassing.
Yes. A one on one, no holds bared match, mano y mano. Which fat stupid 70+ year old leech will blow a major artery first! Take your bets now!!
