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BREAKING BEIJING Cartoon published 04/10/2025 Dragon is saying “Get off My Back!” For far too long, the US has endured unequal trade with countries around the world. Other countries charged us significant tariffs while expecting the US not to reciprocate. This unequal playing field should have been made level shortly after WWII, but no president wanted to upset the economic applecart. Trump is willing to cause shockwaves to remedy the trade situation by means reciprocal tariffs. As expected no countries wanted to accept US tariffs after enjoying a marked advantage for so long, but China took it the worst. They upped their tariffs against the US and Trump joined their game of one upmanship. The stock market could not stomach the idea of a trade war and subsequently dropped like a manhole cover tossed out of an airplane. Presidents preceding Trump did not want to deal with China, and so the communists got away with whatever they wanted to get away with. They were allowed to take our jobs and moved our industries to China. The communists utilized their giant population to produce goods at a far lower cost than here in America. The Chinese haver stolen secrets from US corporations and reneged on deals. They lie and cheat without empathy. China lied to the world about the covid virus. After all, communist China considers the US to be their arch-enemy and so they took advantage of their adversary at every turn. The CCP is ruthless. Their main concern is maintaining their power and crushing their enemies. Look how ruthlessly they murdered their own citizens in Tiananmen Square. They are also thin-skinned and always concerned with saving face. When they floated a spy balloon across America and Biden did nothing, they still complained when their property was shot down over the Atlantic. It should come as no surprise that they consider Trump’s tariffs as an insult and threat to their power, but in their zeal to ‘save face’ they committed a serious error. The communist Chinese need their best customer, America, to buy up all their cheaply-manufactured goods in order to keep their economy humming. If their economy collapses, the communists might face challenges to their power. China even tried to recruit allies to stand up to the US. Australia firmly rejected such a notion and it’s likely the EU countries will reject an anti-tariff alliance with China as well. Trump has been playing all of this perfectly. The scary dragon that is China will be tamed and the CCP will have no choice but to go to Trump’s negotiating table. — The GrrrTeam