{"id":33139,"date":"2018-04-05T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33139"},"modified":"2018-04-05T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:30:25","slug":"china-declares-trade-war-victory-gloats-at-us-suffering-after-crushing-counterattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33139","title":{"rendered":"China Declares Trade War Victory: Gloats At US &#8220;Suffering&#8221; After &#8220;Crushing Counterattack&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-05\/china-declares-trade-war-victory-warns-us-suffering-after-crushing-counterattack\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">China Declares Trade War Victory: Gloats At US &#8220;Suffering&#8221; After &#8220;Crushing Counterattack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--sticky node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Barely a day after China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-04\/all-out-trade-war-china-strikes-back-25-tariffs-50bn-us-imports\">dropped the hammer<\/a> on US stock markets by unveiling retaliatory tariffs on $50 billion in US imports that &#8211; unlike US measures that mostly targeted obscure industrial products &#8211; actually struck at key industries like soybean farmers, automobiles and airplanes, the Communist Party crowed about what it already sees as its &#8220;victory&#8221; in the nascent trade war in an editorial published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/1096648.shtml\">Global Times<\/a>, China&#8217;s state-owned, English-language tabloid and extremely hawkish party mouthpiece.<\/p>\n<p>In the editorial, China swatted away US claims &#8211; repeated most recently by Larry Kudlow during this morning&#8217;s interview with Fox Business&#8217;s Maria Bartiromo &#8211; that China has somehow victimized the US via its trade agreements while gloating about the leadership&#8217;s decision to strike at a &#8220;massive weak spot&#8221; for the US economy.<\/p>\n<p>While the tit-for-tat tariffs could hurt both economies, the damage to China&#8217;s economy caused by the US&#8217;s Section 301 tariffs will <strong>&#8220;pale in comparison to the damage done to the US economy<\/strong> via China&#8217;s retaliations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And just to illustrate that point, literally, a Chinese cartoonist showed that another way Beijing will hurt the US is by a &#8220;stockmarket squeeze.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/China%20stock%20market%20squeeze.jpeg?itok=XgEN-YXK\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/China%20stock%20market%20squeeze.jpeg?itok=XgEN-YXK\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/China%20stock%20market%20squeeze.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/China%20stock%20market%20squeeze.jpeg?itok=XgEN-YXK 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"7d52e226-98af-4889-8153-42c10c895f1f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in standing up to America&#8217;s &#8220;bullying tactics&#8221;, China warns that the pleasure the US had derived from its sanctions in the past <strong>&#8220;will now cause them suffering as their financial and political gains diminish to zero.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This is Beijing&#8217;s clear show of retaliation toward the proposed tariff list on Chinese products from the US. Beijing showed an impressive response time for its retaliation efforts,<\/strong> taking less than 12 hours to announce its trade countermeasures. <strong>Chinese officials agree that its country&#8217;s countermeasures match those imposed by the US and that they showcase China&#8217;s determination to win this trade war.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Declares Trade War Victory: Gloats At US &#8220;Suffering&#8221; After &#8220;Crushing Counterattack&#8221; Barely a day after China dropped the hammer on US stock markets by unveiling retaliatory tariffs on $50 billion in US imports that &#8211; unlike US measures that mostly targeted obscure industrial products &#8211; actually struck at key industries like soybean farmers, automobiles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2045,130,6390,3222,827,865,4318],"class_list":["post-33139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-global-times","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states","tag-washington","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33140,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33139\/revisions\/33140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}