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Trump cuts China tariffs after Xi pledges fentanyl crackdown and rare-Earth pause

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President Donald Trump announced a reduction in tariffs on Chinese imports following a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, where both leaders reached new understandings on fentanyl enforcement, agricultural trade, and rare-earth export limits.

Trump said the tariff rate would drop by 10 percentage points in exchange for Xi’s pledge to intensify efforts against fentanyl trafficking into the U.S. and resume purchases of American soybeans and other farm products. The two also agreed to a one-year pause on China’s planned rare-earth export restrictions, with a review scheduled next year.



The talks, described by Trump as “amazing,” aimed to ease ongoing trade and technology tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

Trump said the meeting produced a “framework agreement” to be renewed annually and announced reciprocal visits — his trip to China in April and Xi’s visit to the U.S. later in the year. Xi, for his part, emphasized that friction between great powers is “normal” but expressed optimism that the U.S. and China could “thrive side by side.” The meeting closed with both leaders signaling a thaw in relations after months of economic confrontation.

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  1. Trump has decimated US soy bean farmers
    Too little too late for some
    After receiving a $20 billion bailout from the U.S., Argentina removed export tariffs on soybeans.
    This made their soy significantly cheaper, allowing them to sell 1.3 million tons to China—right as U.S. farmers began their harvest with zero Chinese orders.
    China imposed a 20% tariff on U.S. soybeans, effectively shutting American producers out of their largest export market.
    Instead, China turned to Brazil and Argentina for supply.
    Trump’s foreign aid decisions—especially the Argentina bailout—have directly undermined U.S. farmers.
    With bins full and no buyers, soybean prices have dropped below sustainable levels.
    Farmers say they’d need prices above $20 per bushel to offset inflation and input costs.
    Equipment, fertilizer, and fuel prices have surged.
    Combined with low crop prices, many farmers are operating at a loss or barely breaking even.
    Historic flooding and droughts have wiped out yields in key regions like Arkansas and Georgia. Logistical disruptions have further complicated exports.
    Bankruptcies and Mental Strain: Farm bankruptcies in 2025 have already surpassed the total for 2024.
    Many farmers report overwhelming frustration and uncertainty about their future.
    Tariff Reductions and Talks: A recent meeting between President Trump and President Xi Jinping led to a 10% reduction in tariffs and a promise to resume soybean purchases.
    However, it’s unclear how quickly or significantly this will help U.S. farmers.
    Trumps knee jerk politics has done irreparable harm to US soy bean farmers who may never recover.
    Taco man strikes again.

        • What you’re suffering from is called TDS, friend.

          Soy is gay and lowers testosterone. Those farmers should be growing beef instead.

          Argentina has a populist president with policies in line with Trump’s and lots to trade. Making good deals with them is logical, remember that Trump was a businessman who made ten billion dollars before he became a politician – the guy knows what he’s doing.

          And President “Kumala” would’ve been WAY worse for the farmers than the orange man, let’s not pretend otherwise.

          Trump is the first person in decades to actually remotely challenge or stand up to Winnie the Pooh and his communist Monty Python skit posing as a government, which is sadly more than I can say for any of the weasels in Wellington over the last 30 years.

          I’ll FO right after you do first 😉

      • U.S. soybean farmers have been hit hard and decimated by a severe economic crisis in 2025—many are facing bankruptcy, unsold harvests, and collapsing export markets.
        China Stops Buying: China, once the largest buyer of U.S. soybeans, has halted purchases entirely in retaliation for U.S. tariffs. Farmers report zero orders from China during peak harvest.
        Lost Market Share: Analysts warn that the U.S. may have permanently lost its share of the global soybean market, as China turns to Brazil and Argentina.
        Bankruptcies Surging: As of July 2025, farm bankruptcies already exceed the total for all of 2024.
        Low Prices, High Costs: Soybean prices remain depressed, while input costs for fertilizer, fuel, and equipment have soared.
        Climate Disasters: Historic flooding and droughts have wiped out yields in key regions like Arkansas and Georgia.
        Argentina Bailout Controversy: The U.S. gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout, enabling it to flood the market with cheap soybeans—undercutting American farmers. Critics call this a “man-made crisis” caused by President Trump’s trade policies.
        Farmer Frustration: The American Soybean Association and individual farmers are demanding urgent financial relief, saying the crisis is overwhelming.

        • Donald Trump himself has never declared personal bankruptcy, but several of his companies filed for Chapter 11 protection, and he relied on bailouts and restructuring to stay afloat. These corporate bankruptcies and failed ventures reveal a pattern of risk-taking, branding over substance, and strategic use of U.S. financial systems.
          🏢 Trump’s Corporate Bankruptcies
          Trump’s businesses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at least four to six times, depending on how entities are counted:
          – Trump Taj Mahal (1991): Overleveraged and unable to meet debt obligations.
          – Trump Plaza Hotel (1992): Filed for bankruptcy after failing to make loan payments.
          – Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts (2004): Reorganized after accumulating $1.8 billion in debt.
          – Trump Entertainment Resorts (2009): Filed again during the financial crisis.
          These filings allowed Trump to renegotiate debt and shed liabilities while maintaining control or walking away with minimal personal loss.
          💸 Bailouts and Financial Rescues
          – Banks bailed out Trump’s Atlantic City casinos, fearing broader market disruption if they collapsed.
          – Trump University ended in a $25 million settlement after fraud allegations, effectively a reputational bailout.
          – Truth Social’s SPAC merger (via Digital World Acquisition Corp) raised $875 million despite listing Trump’s failed ventures in its filings.
          Sources:
          Factually.co – Trump Companies Bankruptcy Filings
          Work and Money – Every Trump Business That Went Bankrupt
          Yahoo Finance – Trump’s Disastrous Business Deals
          http://whale.to/b/zionists.html
          Roll on Mr Businessman😉

  2. US-Japan Rare Earth Minerals Deal
    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/us-japan-rare-earth-minerals-deal/
    So called rare earth elements are not rare but rare in concentrations except China
    Does China want to finance US debt and provide rare earth elements to the US so the US can conduct war against it?
    Rare earth facilities to process such take at least ten years to establish
    Interesting too – China has been supplying drones and parts to Ukraine which it has now discontinued
    And now favoring Russia
    And blocking shipments to Baltic states
    No friends where there is finance
    Smacks of hypocrisy

  3. UNPREDICTABILITITY & TOUGHNESS: China & Trump /Alastair Crooke & Lt Col Daniel Davis
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSKQk2b_I0
    AI data processing centres are pushing up power prices across the US
    And for that matter to a certain extent NZ although there can be certain positive derivatives
    Crypto mining also can have an impact on power supply issues
    For which it is totally unprepared even with the envisaged increase by 10 nuclear power plants
    Construction planned to start around 2030!
    While other older plants have had their life expectancy and operating permits extended
    And will still lag far behind China who have done their homework in investing in infrastructure into the future and not bogged down blown their money on senseless wars of attrition on foreign soils
    Uncles Sam has been caught with His pants down playing with himself and is buggered – there is no other way to put it
    The Jews have subverted and hijacked America leading to its destruction and demise
    Race mixing usury bogged down wars of attrition now manifesting themselves into internal ructions of civil war
    The American Dream was a lie from the start
    And was founded on the lie that all Men were created equal
    Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address
    The Ununited Soviet States of America – A failed State
    Noticed the chains around the ankles on the Statue of Liberty – which signifies Semiramis wife and mother of Nimrod who Catholics worship as the virgin Mary – Old Gods become new Saints
    Nimrod built 5 cities and corralled all the people into them
    Who had just given up their freedom for security
    What happened on 911 with the Patriot Act?
    And the invasion of Afghanistan that was all set to go that would have required month’s in the planning
    Suddenly they had given up their freedom and the ability to grow their Own food and were now dependent on others
    And were now consumers and not producers
    This was the beginning of commercialism merchants corporatism and fascism
    Canaanite – interpolated to have the same meaning as “Merchant”
    Of Death

    • Talking about the Virgin Mary
      Not to mention the cult of Catholicism
      Jesus is told His brethren are outside
      Matthew 12:49 “And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!”
      Referring to the fact His real brethren were the ELOHEEM – origin heaven – in 3D as a small portion of their true selves the Holy spirit – a dichotomy – a spirit and a soul (In heaven a composite of YAHWAH God and the Holy spirit their Own individual unique identifying spirit) – in an Adamic White only blood and water flesh body origin earth
      Jesus came only for the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel – the ELOHEEM or the Very ELECT
      All of the disciples were Apostles – those sent – excepting Judas Iscariot who was an Edomite Jew Who Jesus chose to betray Him in order that prophecy be fulfilled to deliver the ELOHEEM out of the bondage of ‘the’ Death into redemption and the resurrection of eternal Life
      John 6:70 “Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
      So Mary was a creation origin earth – a living person – soul – all souls die
      So there were not two different spirits in Her
      Which is what Jesus YAHWASUA is saying here
      That which is flesh is flesh – that which is spirit is spirit
      Jesus came to separate not unite
      Flesh from spirit
      ELOHEEM from creation
      Hebrewism from Judaism
      Hebrew 4:12 “For the word of YAHWAH God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
      The Word in heaven
      The First and the Last Adam
      And the Anointed Messiah when He returns AGAIN
      Out of interest
      For the educated
      Briefly

  4. The 40 billion $’s for a US bailout of the Argentine economy is likened to a drip for a terminally ill patient
    Or a shot in the arm for a brief euphoria
    A slow bleed out
    The $40B U.S. bailout to Argentina under Milei can be seen as a slow intravenous infusion of liquidity, keeping the patient (Argentina’s economy) technically alive while deeper systemic decay continues
    The bailout stabilizes currency and markets, but doesn’t cure Argentina’s chronic debt, poverty, or institutional fragility
    Just as a drip relies on external fluids, Argentina’s economy is tethered to foreign capital, IMF prescriptions, and now U.S. political favor
    Pharmakeia
    The drip suggests medical attention, but may mask abandonment of deeper treatment—mirroring austerity’s optics of discipline while cutting vital services
    It delays inevitable collapse, perhaps until after elections or geopolitical shifts, without resolving the underlying pathology
    Mask of Deception: Framing bailout as triumph
    Crown of Risk: U.S. taxpayers underwriting fragility
    Harvest of Harm: Rising poverty amid macro success
    Bypassed oversight and elite benefit
    Milei is rumored to be related to Netanyahu
    Another fake Wailing Wall Kike
    Right up Trumps alley
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/dZGbiJfsQ9lp
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/argentina-javier-milei-corruption/5899247
    I enjoy proving people wrong

  5. Here are several recent GlobalResearch.ca articles that critically examine Javier Milei’s presidency in Argentina—covering corruption, surreal political theatrics, and ties to global financial agendas.
    📰 Featured Articles on Milei from GlobalResearch.ca
    – Argentina’s Darling, Javier Milei, Rocked with Corruption
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/argentina-javier-milei-corruption/5899247
    Published: September 2, 2025
    Helena Glass explores Milei’s waning popularity amid allegations that his sister Karina—appointed General Secretary—profited from a bribery scheme. The article critiques Milei’s inner circle and symbolic theatrics, including his mentorship under Rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish.
    – Things Are Getting Seriously Surreal in Milei’s Argentina
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/things-getting-surreal-milei-argentina/5903416
    Published: October 10, 2025
    Nick Corbishley documents Milei’s bizarre public performances, including rock concerts and folk song renditions, while political tensions rise. The piece highlights Milei’s self-styled anarcho-capitalism and its unsettling cultural impact.
    – Argentina on the Brink of Collapse: “Anarcho-Capitalist” Javier Milei Is Part of the WEF Agenda
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/argentina-brink-collapse-anarcho-capitalist-javier-milei-part-wef-agenda/5840980
    Published: November 23, 2023
    Ernst Wolff argues that Milei’s rise aligns with global financial interests, including the World Economic Forum, and critiques his lack of political experience and radical libertarian ideology.
    – Argentina’s Javier Milei Administration: The Lunatic, the Beautiful and the Rich
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/argentinas-new-administration-lunatic-beautiful-rich/5842262
    Published: December 5, 2023
    Hermann Ploppa offers a satirical and scathing portrait of Milei’s cabinet, describing it as eccentric and elite-driven. The article critiques Milei’s charisma and policy direction.
    Case closed

    • Yes yes, fascinating collection of MSM talking points you’ve amassed.

      Orange man bad. Milei bad. China good. Globalism good.

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