No one knows. Here's a video of Trump from a few days ago saying he's willing to concede Taiwan.
With that offer on the table, who knows how much China would be willing to pay Trump. Trump is just in it for himself. He just put a trillion dollar chip on the bargaining table.
The problem with your argument is when China tries to stop othering as you noted, everyone says China bad. Just look at the reporting on Xinjiang. If USA is concerned about how China does things, fix it in your own country first. Lead by example. Or as China does, they'll do it there way.
The good news is the US government isn't competent enough to actually enforce the tariffs. So your fishing stuff most likely won't get much more expensive. They'll just get labeled "made in the USA" to appease our narcissistic president. Good times.
It's because they were never that effective before. But with the advent of drones, they have suddenly become a wildly important protection. This is cause the drones can get stuck in those slat gaps. No other weapon before had this kind of weakness. They were all basically just ballistics before drones.
Gotcha! Yes it is whataboutism. Just like what you're doing with China and their calls for peace in Gaza. Everything you said about China is arguing in bad faith and pushing US whataboutisms.
*Edit I love it I knew you were going to do this. Look at my comments above I'll quote myself
*Edit: I’m really hoping you’ll resort to whataboutism. Since your entire argument is a whataboutism. You’re saying you won’t believe genocide victims because what about China doing stuff that has nothing to do with Gaza.
That's literally not the article I linked. Also we are talking about a call to a ceasefire, which China has called for on both conflicts.
*Edit: Also
Beijing supporting the Kremlin’s plans economically rather than openly amid international pressure.
China is also the US's second largest trade partner. Your article is just repeating that yes, China will sell to countries that commit war crimes. They never said they would stop and your article is loudly proclaiming it. That's nice, but irrelevant.
Well Orban seems 100% on Putin's side regardless. I guess I don't know enough about Germany to know if that's something their far right wants, but wouldn't surprise me. And I suppose that all makes more sense since the far right in USA is clearly on his side already.
40% is not a majority.
Right, I knew 2 died, I got them mixed up a tiny bit. Below I have provided sources.
Well that and MS is like a national champion in China. MS is one of the few companies to follow Chinese law and thus, Bing is the only foreign search engine allowed. MS is what China is hoping every other foreign company will emulate. So yeah, no way China is going to go after MS.
*Edit. Heck, MS is expanding in China even amidst the tech war because they love China so much.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/microsoft-faces-us-scrutiny-as-it-nears-10000-employees-in-china/
If anything USA should be banning MS for national security issues.
Ah classic, your all for rule of law until there's an actor you don't like following rule of law. Suddenly the law should change just for them. Hypocrite.
I mean, not that I'm OK with any of this. But Trump said he's not willing to commit to defending Taiwan a few days ago. If Taiwan is on the table, god knows how much money China will be willing to shower on to him and USA. His insane plan might work for a few years while he's in office. He's willing to sell what no one else ever was and damn the longterm consequences.
But as an American, he might just be stealing the money to keep America afloat for his term, so I guess that's nice?