John Hayward – 9 Apr 2025 – Breitbart
My cmnt: China cannot feed its own people with what they grow themselves. So they MUST import food from America and elsewhere. We CAN feed ourselves AND make for ourselves what we currently buy from China and their low-priced slave labor. It’s time to expose this paper tiger and start buying trivial goods elsewhere and strategic goods from our own in-house manufacturers.
The U.S.-China trade war heated up on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump’s tariffs on China soared to a total of 104 percent and China retaliated by announcing an 84 percent levy on U.S. goods.
China furiously denounced Trump’s tariffs as “hegemonic” and called on the world to unite against Trump’s “bullying.”
The Chinese Finance Ministry announced the 84 percent retaliatory tariff on Wednesday, several hours ahead of an expected retaliation from the European Union.
China said it was “inevitable” that it would run a trade surplus against the United States, and it has the “determination and means” to keep fighting back against Trump’s tariffs.
The Customs Tariff Commission of China’s State Council — which is effectively the Chinese cabinet — said Trump’s tariff escalation was a “mistake on top of a mistake,” infringes upon “China’s legitimate rights and interests,” and “gravely undermines the rules‑based multilateral trading system.”
“China urges the U.S. to immediately correct its wrong practices, cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China, and properly resolve differences with China through equal dialogue on the basis of mutual respect,” the Customs Tariff Commission said.
In addition to raising its own tariffs, China’s retaliation included adding 12 U.S. entities to its export control list.
The Chinese Commerce Ministry said the new export controls on “dual-use” products, which could have military applications, were necessary to “safeguard national security interests and fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation.”
“These entities may engage in activities that may endanger China’s national security and interests, and any export operator shall not violate the above provisions,” the ministry said.
Six of the newly-designated “unreliable entities” were American tech companies, including Shield AI Inc., Sierra Nevada Corporation, Cyberlux Corporation, Edge Autonomy Operations LLC, Group W, and Hudson Technologies Company. The activity that allegedly made them “unreliable” was selling military technology to Taiwan.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday furiously denounced Trump’s latest tariff increase as a “hegemonic and bullying move.”
“If the U.S. truly wants to settle the issue through dialogue and negotiation, it should let people see that they’re ready to treat others with equality, respect, and mutual benefit,” said foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian.
“If the U.S. decides not to care about the interests of the U.S. itself, China and the rest of the world, and is determined to fight a tariff and trade war, China’s response will continue to the end,” he threatened.
When Chinese state media agency Xinhua chimed in to (falsely) hail the Chinese economy as a “strong magnet for foreign investment,” Lin took the planted question as an opportunity to call upon the rest of the world to rally beside Beijing against Trump.
“China stands ready to work with all parties to uphold true multilateralism, jointly oppose various forms of unilateralism and protectionism, defuse risks, address challenges, and promote a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization,” he said.
Self Own: China Taunts Americans with AI-Generated Videos of How Awful Chinese Sweatshops Are
Alana Mastrangelo – 11 Apr 2025 – Breitbart
The Chinese Communist Party is attacking Americans with AI-generated videos depicting them as overweight slobs working in sweatshops in the wake of President Donald Trump introducing tariffs on China.
In a desperate attempt to attack the United States, China appeared to inadvertently admit it forces its own people to slave away in sweatshops — where workers make low wages for long hours under poor conditions — by sharing AI-generated videos depicting Americans working in those conditions, instead.
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The videos show AI-generated Americans — who the Chinese fantasize about being all overweight — making products like Nike shoes while they drink soda and eat potato chips.
One video includes a version of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1970 hit “Proud Mary,” honing in on the lyrics, “You don’t have to worry if you have no money, the people on the river are happy to give. Big wheel keep on turnin’, proud Mary keep on burnin’. Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river.”
Behind the AI-generated factory workers is a sign that reads, “Make America Strong Again.”
At the end of the video, a sign reading, “Make America Rich Again” is displayed above falling billboards of companies including Tesla, Apple, Nvidia, and Nike.
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Some videos even feature President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Elon Musk working in a Chinese-style sweatshop.
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The AI video appears to have first been posted by a now-deleted Instagram account that had the handle @Jumbo-AI, according to a report by Daily Mail.
As Breitbart News reported, stocks soared on Wednesday after President Trump paused tariff hikes on dozens of U.S. trade partners while hitting China with a punishing 125 percent tariff.
“This wasn’t retreat. It was redirection. The president pulled off a flash launch, turning a tariff-induced selloff into a strategic masterstroke,” Breitbart’s John Carney explained.
China’s desperate AI-videos is not the first time the Chinese Communist Party has admitted to its own slave labor.
Last year, China promoted Xinjiang sweatshops as the future of “Made in China” with the communist country’s Xinhua news service boasting that “large-scale labor-intensive industries” were blossoming in the Xinjiang province due to Uyghurs slaves.
Alana Mastrangelo is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on Facebook and X at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.
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