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Trump gives China one day to end retaliations or face extra 50% tariffs (arstechnica.com)

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Tech companies' worst nightmare ahead of Donald Trump's election has already come true, as the US and China are now fully engaged in a tit-for-tat trade war, where China claims it expects to be better positioned to withstand US blows long-term.

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[–] Redfugee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's more simple than that. It is consistent with everything he does, it's about achieving more power and wealth. The blanket tariffs hurt everyone and they want businesses to offer the administration a pledge of loyalty (campaign contributions, positive press, fire people in their company that they don't like, etc) in exchange for exceptions on tariffs that they want.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Problem with that hypothesis is there's plenty of big businesses that have been kissing his ass, but nobody got an exception from the current round of tariffs. See apple and their stock price