The United States has approached China seeking talks over President Donald Trump’s 145% tariffs, a social media account affiliated with Chinese state media said on Thursday, potentially signalling Beijing’s openness to negotiations. “The U.S. has proactively reached out to China through multiple channels, hoping to hold discussions on the tariff issue,” Yuyuan Tantian said in a post published on its official Weibo social media account, citing anonymous sources.

  • Endymion_Mallorn
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    381 month ago

    So basically we’re admitting that we lost the trade war, and the whole world is going to belong to China. Isn’t that swell.

    • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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      81 month ago

      “trade war” …LOL… some imbeciles did a full leroy jenkins and now the NPCs cry. thats not what a war looks like…this is what a children do. pathetic.

      • Endymion_Mallorn
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        51 month ago

        It wasn’t even a full Leeroy Jenkins. He always went in for full, unrelenting DPS and would go until he was dead unless protected. This was barely poking the (Pooh) bear, and then running like hell the moment it doesn’t look great. The full Leeroy would be a full embargo backed by the Coast Guard.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      You lost the one-sided trade war, yes. Trump literally defeated himself, showing how great of a businessman he is using tariffs.

      If he were even slightly intelligent, we would be in so much trouble, but since he couldn’t organize a gang bang in a whore house I’m not as worried as I would be with real competence at the helm of the west.

      Like his coup attempt on Jan 6th, his second term will just cause mayhem and corruption but will be fixable when he(if?) leaves.

    • ms.lane
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      61 month ago

      Possibly, Yes.

      China has a mandate to become global superpower #1 by 2049, Mao made a promise to the Chinese people and his underlings made that a promise to him.

      1849 - 1949 was China’s “Century of humiliation”

      1949 - 2049 is China’s “Century of Development”

      2049 - 2149 is to be the “Chinese Century”

      China will have pulled no stops to make that happen, whilst undoubtedly this is Trump fumbling over and over - this might actually be beneficial as now they don’t need to prove their worth as a superpower through war.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      If China can ascend without a world war? Fine. Not jazzed about it but its better than thermo nuclear annihilation

      • Endymion_Mallorn
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        21 month ago

        If it was guaranteed to be annihilation, I think I could accept it. The problem is, it’s not a guarantee. People might live, and they might not even get radiation poisoning. That leaves them alive in a wasteland. That’s the issue. Death is preferable to a life of suffering.