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Xi Jinping, who rules with absolute authority, has shown he is willing to let the Chinese people endure hardship. President Trump revealed he has limits.
By Li Yuan [ha ha ha! I *LOVE* that the reporter is Chinese! Fuck Trump!]
April 11, 2025 | Updated 4:26 p.m. ET
President Trump didn’t seem to mind as his worldwide tariffs set off stock market sell-offs and wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth.
“Be cool,” he told Americans.
Then he blinked on Wednesday afternoon in the face of financial turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields that could shake the dominant position of the dollar and the foundation of the U.S. economy.
By pausing some tariffs for dozens of countries for 90 days, he also gave away something to his main rival, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with whom he has engaged in a game of chicken that risks decoupling the world’s two biggest economies and turning the global economic order upside down.
Mr. Xi learned that his adversary has a pain point.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/business/us-china-tariffs-trump-xi.html
I'm no fan of China or Xi, but anyone who can make Trump pungle is okay by me, at least for a while.
"I’ll make him pungle, too, or I’ll know the reason why."
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
[look it up if you want the citation, you fucking faggots]
Trump is a cunt. Trumpswabs voted for a cave-in punk, a mackerel-reeking cunt.
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