And one more to the Mueller stack
Russia received no additional tariffs
Wtf is the Mueller stack?
Russia is already on its own “special list” of countries that have very heavy trade restrictions. Like North Korea.
I don’t think tariffs would’ve made a difference there.
Trump imposed tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica, but not Russia.
Yeah but that’s out of incompetence, not malice. You’re in most cases not allowed to trade with Russia due to sanctions, so what is there to tariff?
41% increase on tariffs to Syria which is currently also comprehensively sanctioned
The recent collapse of the Assad regime might have changed the calculus there, not sure.
They’re on a different list that allows limited trade afaik.
So is Russia now that Trump continues lifting sanctions and gutting sanctions enforcement against Russia
Trump hasn’t lifted any sanctions on Russia yet. He prolonged them for a year in February, and has been trying to offer the perspective of lifting them in exchange for peace negotiations. But since Putin hasn’t started negotiating in earnest yet, no sanctions have been lifted as far as I know.
xi is gonna be pissed both that they recognize taiwan and that they charge them less
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I don’t think so, I think he’d be on the side of whoever is fighting China. He’s got it in for them, and has for a very long time.
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Taiwan could invade PRC and he’d only have a minimal idea of what’s going on.
My worst case scenario is that HitlerPig keaves NATO, and joins an alliance with Russia, China, North Korea, etc.
As a show of good faith to his new “friends,” he will give Alaska back to Russia, and Taiwan back to China. He will claim it’s a good deal, because they gave him Canada and Geeenland, even though those countries aren’t theirs to give.
He’ll act like the lonely rich kid, bribing the cool kids to let him hang with them, but they’ll just use him for what they can get from him, and hate him all the same.
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Bro looks like a corpse
Never realized how left leaning Lemmy was.
It varies by instance, some are more Marxist, some are more Anarchist, some are more liberal, some are blends of 2 of those. However, the 2 biggest factors are that the Developers are Marxists and thus Marxists have been building communities here from the beginning, and the rejection of Reddit, a highly corporatized social media platform, in order to jump to a smaller FOSS platform, fits neatly with general anticapitalism.
Very thoughtful and nice comment. Thank you!
No problem!
Cowbee thank you for the thoughtful and insightful reply. I wasnt aware of the roots of Lemmy being Marxist or a mix of the two. I appreciate you representing what brought me to Lemmy and away from Reddit which is having a discussion and not down voting and insulting users for a genuine realization. Reddit is a hateful nasty place and many of us left bc of that. So thanks for not being like them
No problem! 🫡
It comes from chy-nah
The REAL reason China slapped the US with those reciprocal tariffs.
lemmy dot ml is now confused.
I don’t think tankies are keen on recognising Taiwan. They think it should still be part of China.
Exactly, that’s what they are saying
It could help with global warming by decreasing consumption.
Other than the crippling economic crisis it’s putting us through, I really like that things in the grocery store are better labelled to show they’re local or Canadian now. I’ve always preferred to buy local because it’s better for the environment, now it’s easier.
looking for a silver lining… good on you friend. thank you for the perspective shift
Good question. How is he going to sell oil, which are his main sponsors?
lol. That’s what the new coal mines are for, silly! The children yearn for the mines… https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/climate/trump-order-coal-mining.html
sorry, my family only uses all natural bone coal
Art of the Green Deal
Im suprised taiwan is so high
His “math” for calculating each is surprisingly simple and not based on anything “reciprocal” https://youtu.be/j04IAbWCszg
The EU. Everyone’s favourite country.
EUSSR, the country of healthcare and public transport.
Jealous :P
Well it’s a single trading block with free internal trade, it would be Impossible have different import tax levels for different countries within the union without them being trivial to circumvent.
if he really wanted to do some damage, he could pick a random port city - Durrës, say - and decide that goods sent from there incur no tariff. then, after the logistics change to ship out of there, invert the tariff structure and send that region into unrest
Is this the lore for Euro Truck Simulator?
Diabolical.
Yep, because Taiwan is a country, and the real China.
inb4 this comment gets downvoted by tankies
It is sad. Everyone is gloating, cheering on a possible conflict in the future. We’ve seen this kind of escalation and warmongering in 2013 in Ukraine. “Of course that country on the doorstep of our big geopolitical rival should be independent and join our military pact! Hahaha lololol!”
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average .ml user (aka tankie)
You just throw that word around for anybody you fucking creep, fuck off and avoid labeling me in the future. I did misread their comment, I absolutely agree. Taiwan is best China, before you snap somebody’s face off consider that they may be miscommunicating, butthat’s all done. You showed your ass, so fuck off again.
srry, I thought you were sucking off the ccp
China is West Taiwan
Occupied mainland Taiwan
That’s kinda like if the Confederacy, upon losing the Civil War, fled and occupied Cuba, and was propped up millitarily by, say, the UK as a millitary foothold to keep the US in check back when the UK still had Imperialist chops, then saying the Confederate-occupied Cuba is the real US.
The fact is, the Communists and Nationalists had a 2 decade long civil war, and the Communists won against the Nationalists, who then fled to Taiwan, where the Nationalists have maintained that they are the legitimate government of China.
As with any revolution, such as the French, American, Vietnamese, Russian, Cuban, etc, I don’t think it makes much sense to declare the French Monarchy, British Empire, French Colonialists, Russian Tsarists, or fascist Batista regime the “rightful” rulers of the countries the people themselves overthrew, and that extends to China.
As for Taiwanese people, the overwhelming majority support maintaining the status quo, with few wanting hard independence or reconcilliation. This may change now that the US is pivoting away from them as well, but both the PRC and ROC seem to be content to maintain the uneasy status quo for the time being. War would be devastating for Taiwan in particular.
4 paragraphs of response… Is this a bot response? Or did you just take my comment way too serious?
It’s a direct comparison to what calling the PRC “West Taiwan” means. It means you uphold the Nationalist Kuomintang as the wrongfully overthrown dictatorship that should have never lost the Chinese Civil War.
The USA is west Cuba
USA is East Alaska.
I thought Taiwan was an independent country?
Don’t pull a muscle, prc boi
So it’s not an independent country?
Try harder
Struggling to answer?
You need to try harder to make me answer you. This is very low-effort trolling. Show me some actual trolling, tankie, cmon.
So they aren’t an independent country?
That’s kinda like if the Confederacy, upon losing the Civil War, fled and occupied Cuba, and was propped up millitarily by, say, the UK as a millitary foothold to keep the US in check back when the UK still had Imperialist chops, then saying the Confederate-occupied Cuba is the real US.
The fact is, the Communists and Nationalists had a 2 decade long civil war, and the Communists won against the Nationalists, who then fled to Taiwan, where the Nationalists have maintained that they are the legitimate government of China.
As with any revolution, such as the French, American, Vietnamese, Russian, Cuban, etc, I don’t think it makes much sense to declare the French Monarchy, British Empire, French Colonialists, Russian Tsarists, or fascist Batista regime the “rightful” rulers of the countries the people themselves overthrew, and that extends to China.
As for Taiwanese people, the overwhelming majority support maintaining the status quo, with few wanting hard independence or reconcilliation. This may change now that the US is pivoting away from them as well, but both the PRC and ROC seem to be content to maintain the uneasy status quo for the time being. War would be devastating for Taiwan in particular.
Holy copy-pasta, batman!
Can I get a delicious cookie recipe as well?
No?
Well that’s because they’re different regi–… oh it says Countries
Yes, countries like the EU, which is also on the list.
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offtopic: why do i feel like palantir has a lot to do with this current administration’s policies
I’m sure they have their own perverse AI calling all the shots
