China emerges from trade chaos with record exports and surplus
China emerges from trade chaos with record exports and surplus
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43954112
China ended the first half of 2025 with a record trade surplus of about US$586 billion
Exports rose 5.8 per cent in June from a year earlier to US$325 billion
Everyone was trying to beat the tariffs and it ended up creating record exports.
It’s almost like the rest of the world just…moved on.
Ffs. We need a strong USA. Get rid of this moron.
I am with the rest of the world.
We certainly don't need a strong USA.
Or any USA for that matter.
Seriously. The states mostly hate each other as is. Split up, be happier. You'll have little Russia down in the south where rights are a joke and children go back to the mines but hey, that's just good solid capitalism. And then you'll have everyone else forced to live with their crumbling neighbor slinging shit over the fence for a few decades.
Why do we need a strong usa?
I would settle for a stable USA that takes care of its people.
Yeah the need for a "strong country" is just pure awful nationalism.
Fight for a "good country" instead.
Back in 1997 there was a storyline in WWF with a professional wrestler named Bret Hart.
Bret is a Canadian. And the storyline was that he was a bad guy in the USA, because he bad mouthed USAs healthcare, and treatment of veterans.
He was a good guy everywhere in the world EXCEPT the USA.
He said things like "Back home in Canada, we still act like decent people. Where we take care of the sick, and the elderly. We honor our veterans who served our country. Not like here where you dump them in the streets and spit on them as they suffer. I can't wait to get back to Canada. A real country to be proud of. Not this fascade of an image that your country tries to project. All men are created equal, huh? Kind of hard to take that seriously, when the quotes author was a slave holder."
Yeah. Professional wrestling was WILD in the late 90s. But I bet you thought it was just muscle roided beefy boys beating their chests and shaking the ropes, huh?
My point is, we've NEVER taken care of our own people. Even a professional wrestler 30 years ago could see that.
A strong USA is a call for stability. Consider what they said about the mongols, "For fear of his yasa and punishment his followers were so well disciplined that during his reign no traveller, so long as he was near his army, had need of guard or patrol on any stretch of road ; and, as is said by way of hyperbole, a woman with a golden vessel on her head might walk alone without fear or dread."
Weather the mongols (or the USA) are a good empire is a separate matter. The US brings a lot of stability for small countries and keeps sea ways open for trade. It is not an act of charity the way some republicans frame it, but still. Simply saying for the US empire to fold those responsibilities begs the question, who or what will take its place?
These are not easy questions and leave a lot unsatisfied. They almost remind me of anarcho capitalists saying that with out states and leaving things to the free market everyone will hold hands and sing kumbaya.
That’s true…if only.
This is the results of decades of bipartisan foreign policy. If you want change, we’ll have to oust the majority of Democratic Party leadership as well.
Too late. Globalisation has just sized up the US.
A new leader and government will help, but what a monumental pit to come out of. The first term will be mostly spent plugging holes and repairing.
Barely six months in and American citizens are on their knees—literally if ICE are there with an unmarked van—and no one's doing a thing. It's like every part of the American Constitution was just for show all this time.
Been calling it since Covid. People then were turning their heads whenever some asshole walked into a building without a mask. NO ONE would say anything. I did. Stayed safe. Pissed off some idiots and am better for it.
The United States as a whole has been complicit for awhile now. Better to not start any waves. People saying they have jobs to keep, bills to pay. Don't want to risk anything.
Now, after years of questioning I have one more:
How's that going?
We need a strong USA.
Glances at the last 40 years of US history
Do we?
I still prefer the last 40 years of US history over the last 40 years of Chinese history
Ha ha fair enough.
We need s week usa , enough of the uniyed snake bullying
Man I remember arguing with somebody that said that China would want the USA to be stable and strong and that they don't want the USA playing these games
My response is that China's loving this and they're going to be breaking in profits and low and behold.
China does not care about the United States stability as long as the United States is not focused on China.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" - ancient Chinese war man
*Napoleon Bonaparte
But it does sound like Sun Tzu! Which reminds me, got a new copy of The Art of War and I haven't read it in 10 or 20 years.
does nothing. wins.
Meanwhile, the orange clown is celebrating his 27B tariff surcharge...penny wise.
With the coming change I hope more countries will join the Belt & Road initiative.