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China has a strategy to counter Trump’s
tariffs,
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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 ,
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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!
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With stubbornness and skullduggery.
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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
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to get goods around US tariffs and sanctions.
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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.
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This is incredibly risky for Vietnam.
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Trump paused tariffs on Vietnam for
90 days.
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If after that time is up,
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Trump feels Vietnam is capitulating to China,
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those tariffs could go back in full force.
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That should also be the concern for
Xi’s next stop—
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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,
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with China invited.
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Ooh, never invite the CCP.
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They’re
like vampires.
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Once you let them in, they’ll suck you dry.
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And it’s likely they’ll
claim your home was always a part of China.
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While these tours are happening,
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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,
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if by that you mean predictable.
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Yup, you can always rely on China
to be utterly,
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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.
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Which once again proves that
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just because someone has a European
accent
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doesn’t mean they’re smart.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is one
of them.
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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
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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.
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After all, 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
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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,
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and
Laos just love Chinese movies and TV shows.
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Yes, everyone loves China.
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Especially the Philippines.
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Look at those skyscrapers.
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And high speed trains.
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But the message that’s also being pushed
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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.
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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.”
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, “When it comes to the USA,
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we have never had the upper hand over China.
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“And just when Trump thought he was going to flex up
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on China with his tariffs and trade war,
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they
bitch-slapped us right back with transparency.”
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“The actual machinery to manufacture
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at the
quality that we need primarily exists in China.”
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“So you can probably see why a fifty percent
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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.
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Because it
still doesn’t make sense financially.”
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So what are you waiting for?
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Come to China!
Where you can get cheap Chinese crap…
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…and hopefully not find yourself being kidnapped
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for hostage diplomacy!
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It’s
slightly cheaper, so it’s worth it!
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But when warping the minds of your
enemy isn’t enough,
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the CCP resorts to..
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Number 3: Outright Deceit
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Chinese companies are using outright
lies
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and deception to get around tariffs.
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Like I mentioned earlier,
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Trump is
cracking down on the way China uses third-party countries
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to escape
tariffs and sanctions.
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He’s also cracking down on other loopholes like
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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
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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
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and paying
import duties, as well as other fees.
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That Chinese logistical provider will do what’s
called double invoicing.
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The logistical provider shows one invoice to US customs authorities
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that
undervalues the value of the honey, which leads to reduced duties
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. Meanwhile, the buyers and sellers
of that honey
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use a second invoice that reflects the true transaction value
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. 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
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in their invoices and falsifying customs
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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
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by pocketing the difference
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between what they charge the manufacturers to cover
customs
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and what they actually pay.”
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And if you’re wondering why China is going
to such complex,
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convoluted lengths to avoid these tariffs instead of
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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? .
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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
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. 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
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He Bin criticized China’s tariffs on Chinese social
media,
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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,
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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.
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So that analogy doesn’t really work because China
sees it and thinks, “
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Challenge accepted!”
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He Bin also said, “The US raising tariffs
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is like lifting a rock only to drop it on its own feet
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. We shouldn’t be
doing the same to ourselves.”
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China not doing something
stupid and self-destructive challenge
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? 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.
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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
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for
words like “tariff” and “104” back when Trump’s
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tariffs on Chinese goods were 104 percent.
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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, “
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America
is fighting a trade war while begging for eggs”
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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?
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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,
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that China is strong, strong strong.
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Meanwhile, anything showing the
negative impacts of Trump’s tariffs on China
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is absolutely taboo on Chinese social media,
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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.
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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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