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China has a strategy to counter Trump’s 
tariffs, but will it be enough to beat the US?

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Welcome to China Uncensored. I’m Chris Chappell.

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The Chinese Communist Party is being backed into 
a corner by US President Donald Trump’s tariffs,  

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even if they’re only 145 percent , not 
400 percent as Mr. Wonderful would like,

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or 1776 percent as some people on 
the internet are clamoring for.

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But China is fighting back—the only 
way they know how! With stubbornness  

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and skullduggery. Skullduggery is not a word 
that gets used enough in modern parlance. 

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Of course, there are the retaliatory tariffs…

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And cutting off the US from critical exports.

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But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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Here are four more crazy slash 
utterly predictable ways China  

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is fighting back against Trump’s tariffs.

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Number 1: diplomacy warfare.

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This week, Chinese leader Xi 
Jinping is visiting Southeast Asia.

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You mean the CCP is actually entering another 
country’s territory with consent for a change? 

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There’s a reason why he chose that 
as his *first* overseas trip in 2025.

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Tons of Chinese investors and 
manufacturers have moved there.

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And China has relied on them as shipping 
stopover points to get goods around US  

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tariffs and sanctions. What? This ship 
totally came from Vietnam, not China!

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Trump knows this, which is why he initially 
threatened high tariffs on Southeast Asia.

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Vietnam’s responding to this by eyeing 
crackdowns on some Chinese trade.

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That’s something China wants 
to stop from happening,  

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which is why Xi made Vietnam his first stop.

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While there, Xi signed a 
bunch of economic agreements.

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And called for China and Vietnam to deepen 
building a community with a shared future,

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And they might have a shared future. 
This is incredibly risky for Vietnam. 

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Trump paused tariffs on Vietnam for 
90 days. If after that time is up,  

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Trump feels Vietnam is capitulating to China, 
those tariffs could go back in full force.

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That should also be the concern for 
Xi’s next stop—Malaysia and Cambodia.

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Malaysia is especially important.

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It’s this year’s ASEAN chair.

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And it’s set to host the first ever Asean-Gulf 
Cooperation Council Summit, with China invited.

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Ooh, never invite the CCP. They’re 
like vampires. Once you let them in,  

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they’ll suck you dry. And it’s likely they’ll 
claim your home was always a part of China.

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While these tours are happening, Chinese 
state run media is churning out propaganda 

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Accusing the US of unilateral bullying.

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While China is as “A reliable partner.”

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Well, they certainly are reliable, 
if by that you mean predictable.

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Yup, you can always rely on China 
to be utterly, utterly predictable.

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China’s eyes aren’t just on Southeast Asia.

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It’s also trying to woo 
Europeans with similar messages,

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Like that China and the EU should 
jointly resist “unilateral bullying”... 

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And work together to safeguard 
global trade rules and justice.

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In other words, the global trade 
system the CCP has weaponized.

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Unfortunately, some in Europe are 
biting. Which once again proves that  

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just because someone has a European 
accent doesn’t mean they’re smart.

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is one 
of them. He met with Xi Jinping in Beijing…

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And is pushing the EU closer to China.

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And it’s not just Spain.

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The French foreign minister is also 
batting for a “Franco-Chinese partnership”… 

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And China and Ireland are seeking stronger ties.

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Which makes sense if you 
think about it. After all,  

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just look at all that China 
has to offer the western world!

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Yeah, that’s kind of a problem.

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Which is why the CCP has unleashed an army 
of China-simp influencers upon the internet. 

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That brings me to the next strategy

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Number 2: Psychological Warfare

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To bolster Xi’s chances of 
success in Southeast Asia,  

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Pro-CCP influencers have been promoting 
how much Southeast Asians love China,

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Touting how Chinese brands 
are everywhere in Malaysia…

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And how people from Malaysia, Vietnam, and 
Laos just love Chinese movies and TV shows.

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Yes, everyone loves China. 

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Especially the Philippines.
Look at those skyscrapers. And high speed trains.

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But the message that’s also being pushed 
is that China is more powerful than the US,  

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that tariffs against it are 
pointless and only hurt the US.

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The conclusion: China is 
unstoppable. It already won. 

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China remains robust despite trade restrictions.

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Meanwhile, Americans are needlessly 
suffering a war they already lost. 

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“In this tariff war, the only people  

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losing is American people.”
, “When it comes to the USA,  

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we have never had the upper hand over China.
“And just when Trump thought he was going to flex  

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up on China with his tariffs and trade war, they 
bitch-slapped us right back with transparency.” 

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“The actual machinery to manufacture at the 
quality that we need primarily exists in China.” 

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“So you can probably see why a fifty percent 
or even a two or three hundred percent tariff  

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would still not make me or almost any other 
business move to American manufacturing  

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for these sort of products. Because it 
still doesn’t make sense financially.”

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So what are you waiting for? Come to China! 
Where you can get cheap Chinese crap…

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…and hopefully not find yourself being  

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kidnapped for hostage diplomacy! It’s 
slightly cheaper, so it’s worth it!

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But when warping the minds of your 
enemy isn’t enough, the CCP resorts to..

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Number 3: Outright Deceit

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Chinese companies are using outright 
lies and deception to get around tariffs.

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Like I mentioned earlier, Trump is 
cracking down on the way China uses  

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third-party countries to escape 
tariffs and sanctions. He’s also  

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cracking down on other loopholes like 
the de minimis exception for China,

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which allowed shipments of cheap 
Chinese crap to come in duty-free.

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But Nikkei Asia reports that China’s logistics 
sector is challenging Trump’s tariff enforcers…

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by helping merchants sidestep duties.

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They’re offering what’s known as “double 
clearance and tax inclusive services”.

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Here’s how it works.

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Say you’re selling some Chinese honey.

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A Chinese logistical provider will offer to handle  

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both export clearance in China 
and import clearance in the US.  

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This includes goods declarations and paying 
import duties, as well as other fees.

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That Chinese logistical provider will do what’s 
called double invoicing. The logistical provider  

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shows one invoice to US customs authorities that 
undervalues the value of the honey, which leads to  

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reduced duties. Meanwhile, the buyers and sellers 
of that honey use a second invoice that reflects  

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the true transaction value. They categorize that 
invoice under a service not subject to tariffs…

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…such as marketing.

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Logistics providers are also outright 
lying in their invoices and falsifying  

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customs entry summaries to reduce tariffs owed.

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So even with tariffs as high as 145 percent, 

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or 1776 percent,

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Chinese manufacturers would only 
need to pay a little more in duties.

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Meanwhile, “the logistics companies profit 
by pocketing the difference between what  

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they charge the manufacturers to cover 
customs and what they actually pay.”

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And if you’re wondering why China is going 
to such complex, convoluted lengths to  

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avoid these tariffs instead of simply not 
being as awful anymore… great question!

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So that takes care of China’s international image

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and sidestepping the tariffs,

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but what about those people at home who don’t much  

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care for the way the CCP is handling 
the situation? Those people do exist.

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Because the Chinese people aren’t 
a homogenous blob that believes  

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everything they’re told to believe 
by the CCP. That’s the pro-CCP NPCs.

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Which is why the last strategy is:

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Number four: censorship!

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Former deputy director of the Chinese Academy of 
Social Sciences’ Public Policy Research Center He  

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Bin criticized China’s tariffs on Chinese social 
media, saying they were “completely misguided”.

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But he didn’t stop there.

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He also said, “It’s like saying, ‘If you 
dare hit your wife, I’ll hit my wife.’”

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Of course, China’s no stranger to being an 
abusive spouse even to its own people. So that  

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analogy doesn’t really work because China 
sees it and thinks, “Challenge accepted!”

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He Bin also said, “The US raising tariffs 
is like lifting a rock only to drop it on  

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its own feet. We shouldn’t be 
doing the same to ourselves.”

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China not doing something 
stupid and self-destructive  

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challenge? Difficulty: impossible.

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To no one’s surprise, the Public Policy 
Research Center was officially scrapped.

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I don’t know if I want to know what’s going  

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to happen to He Bin. He’ll 
probably wind up in a bin.  

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Meanwhile, China’s censoring 
tariff-related posts on social media. 

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They’ve been censoring hashtags and searches for 
words like “tariff” and “104” back when Trump’s  

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tariffs on Chinese goods were 104 percent.
Meanwhile, Chinese state-run media is  

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pushing out local propaganda about 
how much tariffs are hurting the US,

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With state-media initiated hashtags like, “America 
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And “China does not provoke 
trouble but is never afraid of it”

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China doesn’t provoke trouble? You know what 
clip I’m about to show *again*, don’t ya?

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This has to be a record.

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Chinese media keeps insisting, both in print 
and on social media, that China is strong,  

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strong strong. Meanwhile, anything showing the 
negative impacts of Trump’s tariffs on China is  

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absolutely taboo on Chinese social media, because 
then that would show that the CCP has weaknesses.

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And weakness is not something 
the CCP wants to ever show.  

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They want to show strength everywhere they go,

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Whether they’re invited or not. Yup, officially 
broke the record showing these clips.

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On that note, here’s something that’ll 
make the CCP weak to its knees!

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