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.
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.
Any type of war?
I vote for a war where both “great leaders” beat the shit out of eachother
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!!
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.
If a war happens, whoever wins, we lose. :(
Yeah. War doesn’t determine who is right, but who is left.
Me too, man, me too.
I just caught myself almost rooting for China for a moment there. It has been a wild month.
you should try it
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.
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.
I propose a hell in a cell match between the two Presidents.
winnie the pooh vs. a dumb sack of fat. 3, 2, 1, go!
Bring the tofu drag and sewage oil to the US!
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.
the Cold War was a free printing money machine for 50 years. creating a new one against China makes sense if you’re an oligarch whose wealth rides upon govt contracts and endless military industrial expansionism.
and it kinda explains why Putin is manipulating Trump to make him believe they’ll choose the US over China in a game of saber rattling. Russia is positioning itself to be the tie-breaker so it can play both sides against one another in lucrative energy/arms deals. maybe they’ll even get some real estate out of it.
They are welcome to Florida if they leave the rest of us alone
/s
The problem with imperialists is that they might say they are happy with whatever the current concession is on the table today but will still want to expand their power beyond whatever limits it currently has tomorrow.
“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.
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.
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.
