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They got 92% of his tariff money. By the way, if China doesn't buy our exported food, they'll get it from somewhere else. And once you lose a buyer, it's hard to lure them back. They have deals and negotiations and contracts with other nations. They're not going to just break those.
Maybe instead of jacking up the price because you're a racist prick, maybe consider not losing your biggest repeat customers.
China has been investing heavily into the Brazilian agricultural industry for that reason. Likely, even if the US drops tarrifs in the future, global supply would have adjusted to source American agricultural goods elsewhere.
The same thing happened to cotton after the American Civil War. The UK and France invested in other countries' cotton farms when they lost access to American cotton.
The plan then is to literally bomb the competition until the biggest repeat customers have no choice but to come back to us. It's not listed on Project 2025, though. And the ones that can't be bombed will be turned into puppet states, so either way, they come back. I doubt that their plan will actually unfold how they want, but we'll see.
Think of yourself as a buyer. A buyer for an entire nation.
Does the US look like a stable and cooperative partner?
I mean, shit, if you’re China, has it ever? I bet it’s real interesting to see your biggest buyer going on and on about your espionage and your “secret communist agenda”.
As if America doesn’t have a secret capitalist fascism agenda. lol
But he's the greatest businessman ever!