Beijing's measures come in the wake of duties imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration earlier this week.
  • China’s finance ministry on Friday said it will impose a 34% tariff on all goods imported from the U.S. starting on April 10.
  • The ministry criticized Washington’s decision to impose 34% of additional reciprocal levies on China — bringing total U.S. tariffs against the country to 54% — as “inconsistent with international trade rules.”
  • U.S. stock futures and European markets fell sharply on news of the reciprocal tariffs.

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    • Joncash2@lemmy.mlEnglish
      28·
      12 days ago

      This again? Taiwan isn’t a recognized country. So they would not be interfering with a nation. IF you disagree with that, petition your own country to recognize Taiwan. The funniest thing is I’m Taiwanese and frankly the Taiwanese don’t want independence at this point. That’s why the Taiwanese congress is majority status quo and about 50/50 on independence and actually returning to China. The reason president Lai won is because the split is so strong that a 40% vote for Lai got him the win. A few more from the people who wanted status quo voted for him instead of Hou at 34%. Yet if you saw what congress did immediately after, which is handcuff him from ever declaring independence, you’ll know the will of the Taiwanese.

      So all that is to say, no China won’t be attacking Taiwan either. That’s just nonsense noise from the west, which frankly I as a Taiwanese person is absolutely sick of. The agreement is simple, Taiwan doesn’t declare independence and China will at most saber rattle.

      *Edit: Oh and what’s not reported is that right after Congress did that, China started a charm offensive. Inviting the former head of the KMT to China and undoing travel restrictions for Taiwanese citizens. So yeah, the war is only in your head, not ours.

      Edit 2:. Loving. The down votes for a Taiwanese person explaining to a westerner what our actual opinions are. Why don’t you all westsplain to me how I should feel.

        • Joncash2@lemmy.mlEnglish
          13·
          12 days ago

          Still what? I’ve already explained China isn’t attacking. And if you would like Taiwan to be independent petition your own government.

          • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
            15·
            12 days ago

            That’s a bad take. Independence should be in the view of the people living there. I’m not going to gauge if Taiwan is a country based on if I can convince the US to recognize them, that’s nonsense garbage logic

            • Joncash2@lemmy.mlEnglish
              5·
              12 days ago

              Is it? So you’re for the independence of Barcelona? Hawaii? Ireland? Falken Islands? When do they get to choose?

                • Joncash2@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  4·
                  12 days ago

                  So you think that we should have split off America during the Jan 6th riots? At what point is a country a country and needs to defend it’s existence and when is it not?

                  • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
                    4·
                    12 days ago

                    i can only hope for the collapse of the state, but in general i wish that upon every state that has so failed its people

              • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
                8·
                12 days ago

                you said you’re Taiwanese above, do you consider yourself Taiwanese and not Chinese?

                • Joncash2@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  9·
                  12 days ago

                  That’s correct. Like I said, westerners have no understanding of what the Taiwanese people want or think. And instead of understanding, they make grand statements about what we want without our input. Again, if you look at the voting, we voted heavily in favor of status quo, which is what I want. If you look at polls, Taiwanese people consider themselves Taiwanese. It’s confusing to people like you because you want it to be black and white, we are fine with shades of gray. Mostly though, I want people to stop talking for us.

                  • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
                    6·
                    12 days ago

                    that’s legit, as an anarchist i want peoples to be able to speak for themselves. I’m not finding referendums about independence, though, just polling from the NSC / ECCU that suggests a split between maintaining status quo and gradually moving towards independence

      • sudneo@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        12 days ago

        Edit 2:. Loving. The down votes for a Taiwanese person explaining to a westerner what our actual opinions are. Why don’t you all westsplain to me how I should feel.

        This is exactly what happens on every .ml or hexbear discussion when someone mentions Ukraine, BTW.