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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (212742)	4/2/2025 12:51:49 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218068

Team China is saying to Team Trump, that, to even engage in powwow, remove tariffs, else do not bother and let the tariffs sanctions and the cancellation-of-purchase-order + denial-of-supply-chains counter-sanctions fall where they might. IOW, to quote what the Trump said to the Zelensky, "you have no cards", except much more diplomatically, i.e. politely, and to paraphrase, 'bend the knee, admit the wrong, then the gate to the celestial court open, and the office of Xi even for welcome tea, else do not even bother to call, because none shall pick up the handset', news by Bloomberg tells us. Unsure if the Bloomberg, a suspect, is correct. But if correct, the state of 'is' is awkward, and intractably so. In the meantime, Team Putin appears to be making further progress against Team Nato / EU, complicating the state of play. bloomberg.com China Ties US Talks to Tariff Removal as Stalemate Deepens Wang Yi at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 1. Photographer: Grigory Sysoyev/POOL/AFP/Getty Images By Bloomberg News 2 April 2025 at 11:16 GMT+8 China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi demands the US remove tariffs imposed on Chinese goods related to the fentanyl crisis before holding talks on the matter. Summary by Bloomberg AI Wang's demand comes after US President Donald Trump's ally Steve Daines asked Beijing to stop the flow of fentanyl ingredients into the US as a condition for talks. Summary by Bloomberg AI Wang also reiterated the importance of China-Russian ties and expressed China's willingness to work with the international community to play a "constructive role" in ending the war in Ukraine. Summary by Bloomberg AI Watch China’s top diplomat called on the US to remove tariffs it imposed on Chinese goods for Beijing’s alleged role in America’s fentanyl crisis before holding any talks on the matter, deepening a stalemate weighing on trade ties between the world’s two largest economies. “If the US side really wants to solve the fentanyl problem, then it should cancel the unjustified tariff increase and engage in equal consultation with the Chinese side,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in an interview with Russian state-run news service RIA Novosti on Tuesday. Wang’s demand came over a week after US President Donald Trump’s ally Steve Daines met with top Chinese officials and asked Beijing to stop the flow of the drug’s ingredients into the US as a condition for talks. The opposing requests dim the prospect of high-level talks to ease tensions a day before the US president is set to announce his so-called reciprocal tariffs on global trade partners. Fentanyl has become a flashpoint in US-China relations, with Trump accusing Beijing of having done too little to stop the drugs and their precursors from entering the US. China in turn accused the Trump administration of using the issue as a pretext to raise tariffs. Last month Chinese officials said that the US owes Beijing a “ big thank you” for its crackdown on the opioid trade. In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin, left, meets with Wang Yi at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 1.Photographer: Grigory Sysoyev/POOL/AFP/Getty Images “If the US side persists in exerting pressure and even continues to engage in blackmail, China will resolutely counteract it,” Wang said, according to a transcript published by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Wang made the comments during a visit to Moscow where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. During his discussions — taking place just over one month ahead of a planned visit to Russia by Chinese leader Xi Jinping — Wang reiterated the importance of China-Russian ties, describing the two nations as “forever friends and never enemies.” He also repeated that China was willing to work with the international community, especially the countries of the Global South, to play a “constructive role” in any peace settlement to end the war in Ukraine.