China secondary sanctions escalator
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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China secondary sanctions escalator
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the tariff war between the United States and China. |
| 0:09.0 | And the terrafore is escalating. |
| 0:14.0 | It is escalating and it does look like the tariff war has been taken over by a certain neocan, a neocan-ish, |
| 0:26.5 | let's say faction in the Trump administration. |
| 0:30.2 | And they are pushing the Trump policy to get harder and harder against China. |
| 0:37.1 | They're talking about increasing the tariffs to 200 and 45% or 25%. |
| 0:43.2 | I don't know what effect that really has at this point. |
| 0:47.8 | Why not make it 500%. |
| 0:49.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:50.2 | But we do have reporting from, I believe it's the Wall Street Journal that claims the strategy |
| 1:00.0 | now from Bessent is to negotiate with 70 countries. |
| 1:07.6 | I wouldn't even call it negotiations, to be quite honest, to tell 70 countries that |
| 1:13.8 | wants some sort of a betrayed deal with the United States, that the tariffs will be reduced |
| 1:20.0 | or maybe even zeroed out if those countries cut ties with China, cut trade with China. |
| 1:28.0 | So it does look like the Trump administration is moving towards a policy, |
| 1:34.0 | which is very much a blockade against China. |
| 1:37.7 | An isolation blockade against China. |
| 1:40.1 | The Wall Street Journal claims that the Trump administration, guys like Bessent, they're doing |
| 1:44.9 | this in order to gain leverage over China and bring them to the negotiating table. |
| 1:49.7 | But when they say something like that, I just think, why not just contact China? |
| 1:55.2 | You're looking to do all of these things in order to just get them to bilateral talks. When China has already |
| 2:02.6 | signaled, China has signaled this, that they are open to talks. So, I mean, it seems like |
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