r/worldnews • u/Significant-Colour • 1d ago

China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans rare earth exports to the U.S.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-strikes-back-on-trump-tariffs-bans-rare-earth-exports-to-the-u-s
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u/epicfail1994 1d ago

I’m getting fucked over because of an absolute moron I didn’t vote for, great

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u/silverwolfe2000 1d ago

This is what it feels like to be Russian

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u/DrBix 1d ago

That might be truer than we think...

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u/YetiTrix 17h ago

Who doesn't think that?

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u/The_Frozen_Inferno 1d ago

Except Americans aren’t being conscripted.

Yet…

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u/-ActiveSquirrel 2h ago

Nope Russians either don’t get to vote or support that with the whole heart.

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u/apoplepticdoughnut 1d ago

Right yeah its Putin pulling all those triggers.

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u/VengefulAncient 1d ago

And is it Trump deporting everyone and kidnapping students?

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u/AadeeMoien 23h ago

It was the US doing it to the Soviets. We even bragged about it at the time. This is just more of the CIAs chickens coming home to roost, same as 9/11 with Bin Laden.

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u/MarioLuigiDinoYoshi 1d ago

Watch how zero effort to root out republican corruption happens when USA recovers many years from now. Zero responsibility zero accountability

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u/sigmoid10 1d ago

Bold assumption that they will recover. We are witnessing what it must have been like to be alive during the fall of Rome.

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u/Low_Cauliflower9404 1d ago

To be fair most romans didn't realize the empire was falling. What with extremely slow communication and the slow progression. Living in Rome proper sucked tho. America's ultra speed running it AND it's constantly in their faces

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u/dreamiicloud_ 1d ago

I don’t think the MAGA idiots even realize things are crumbling around them, despite it happening so quickly.

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u/Low_Cauliflower9404 15h ago

I don't think they care.

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u/dreamiicloud_ 14h ago

The Romans may not have cared either. The slow distribution of information during the fall in Rome is much like a frog that remains in water that is slowly heated to boiling. They continued to brush it off like it’s no big deal, and they didn’t realize how bad things got until it was too late.

Trump did the same thing with MAGA Americans. I truly believe he has been priming the public for this since 2016. Almost 10 years of being slowly accustomed to unprofessional behaviours from elected officials, name calling, racism, accusations of fake news… slowly increasing the intensity of blatant propaganda tactics.

Uneducated people are not going to notice the gradual intensity happening right in front of them. I remember how outrageous we all thought his behaviour was in 2016. Now, we are numb to it.

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u/Domi4 20h ago

Oh yes they did. Hordes coming to the borders from the east, emperors killed one after the other, shine of the city of Rome disappeared, new religion becoming dominant, lack of development and inovation, no new constructions, monetary crisis...

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u/Windfade 1d ago

So we have a few hundred years to go, sweet.

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 1d ago

These people think we're witnessing the collapse of the Roman Empire not realizing that with a military like ours all they're witnessing is the fall of the Republic.

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u/TheGentlemanDM 1d ago

Difference is that Augustus was a competent statesman.

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u/RJ815 1d ago

Romans didn't have nukes. Or social media to collapse economies in a matter of hours.

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u/PorkedPatriot 23h ago

Rome took over 500 years to fall! We might get 500 days.

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u/Paizzu 1d ago

Just wait for the inevitable white-washing by Fox News to shift the blame for this economic disaster onto a future Democrat in the Oval Office.

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u/_BreakingGood_ 1d ago

Mmhm, a few months after Trump is gone we'll be hearing about how this was all caused by Bidenomics and a third of the country will slurp it right up

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u/popornrm 1d ago

Democrats always take the high road, even though it NEVER fucking works

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u/Parallel-Quality 1d ago

You’re assuming they don’t do it because they’re honourable, but I think it’s because they’re too scared to and weak to go after them.

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u/popornrm 1d ago

We don’t know ultimately what the truth is but regardless, their method has zero track record of success and then they turn around and act shocked or blame voters when it doesn’t work for them. Regardless of what you think of the GOP, they have the right mindset when it comes to getting elected and getting your voter base to shown up at the polls. Democrats could learn from that.

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u/SurpriseAgreeable241 1d ago

Dems are too weak to do anything

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u/Altitude528O 1d ago

This orange idiot may cost me my job on Monday. An “all hands” meeting was scheduled. My job is heavily affected by tariffs and reliant on importing.

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u/agitatedprisoner 1d ago

Switch to importing common sense, I hear that's in demand.

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u/Altitude528O 1d ago

What you don’t understand is how much of daily life in the US is imported. And I promise you, my employer imports something that is used daily by a large majority of the population.

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u/agitatedprisoner 1d ago

I'm not belittling it. I'm echoing your sentiment that the country has gone insane. We won't even be able to make thin film solar panels at a good price since we import 75% of the necessary tellurium. Not if Canada decides to impose a punitive tariff.

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u/Altitude528O 1d ago

I misunderstood, my apologies. I appreciate the alignment.

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u/The_Frozen_Inferno 1d ago

Sorry to hear. I feel a lot of similar meetings will be taking place in a lot of countries in the coming weeks

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u/duckrollin 1d ago

Sorry to hear that, I hope you don't lose your job. Good luck for the next 4 years!

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u/No-Fun6980 1d ago

What job and industry is this? If you don't mind me asking. And take care, you'll bounce back ❤️

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u/MoveOverBieber 1d ago

"May" on Monday, for sure some time later, for many people. Once the chips start falling, it's a chain reaction.
Remember 2008 boys and girls.

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u/Beneficial-Pitch-430 1d ago

Me too, and I’m not even in America.

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u/thethreestrikes 22h ago

Yep, factories in my country producing stuff for walmart, costco, and everything are getting fucked over.

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u/DoubleJumps 1d ago

Man, I sat down and told my trump loving dad that exactly this would happen if Trump won and that it would run serious risk of destroying my business back in October.

He made fun of me and said the tariffs were obviously a bluff, then made jokes about my concern for weeks.

Now that it all came to pass and my business is in danger, he's insisting I just "have to have faith" and it'll all be fine.

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u/StageAboveWater 1d ago edited 1d ago

10,000 illiterates in PA tank the world economy

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u/theholybikini 1d ago

I don't even live in the same country and he's demolishing my retirement.

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u/FLTA 1d ago edited 1d ago

But who did you vote for?

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u/PloppyTheSpaceship 1d ago

Democracy in action!

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u/deathinacandle 1d ago

People around the world can say the same thing

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u/Ashamed_Distance_144 1d ago

Should we make a club?

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u/Coziestpigeon2 17h ago

Now imagine being Canada, and watching your neighbours refusing to clean up their own mess, instead running around waving their hands saying things like "but it wasn't my fault, I didn't vote for him!"

Your country. Your mess. You have a whole-ass amendment in your constitution specifically to deal with this situation, and instead you'd rather try to shirk responsibility while my country waits to be invaded.

Want to stop being fucked over? Do something about it instead of acting like it's not your responsibility to solve. It's the responsibility of all of you Americans. Clean up your shit before it leaks across the border.

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u/Iwantthe86 1d ago

You'll thank him in 10 years though.