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To: Julius Wong who wrote (213480)	4/14/2025 6:46:47 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217592

am beginning to have questions about the Jack, now holding only TTWO and physical gold

To: Julius Wong who wrote (213480)	4/14/2025 10:32:21 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217592

stuff happening in the penguin-land, and in vietnam, am told, and obviously the Xi too busy travelling to call the Trump. Perhaps the call shall happen later

To: Julius Wong who wrote (213480)	4/14/2025 10:57:49 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217592

much hope for the Taiwanese chinese, with their whole lot of thousand years of history with kins Whatever the Team Trump is doing, it seems to be just what the Team Xi wants, for all-in Go figure GetMorewGold, faster

To: Julius Wong who wrote (213480)	4/14/2025 11:21:51 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217592

<<Strong Buy>> ... let's see. am told I think that for the Trump administration, the Chinese must be stunned by the lack of caution and understanding that he has of how China negotiates. I cannot think of a worse tactic than threatening and presenting China with zero-sum options. If true, GetMoreGold, as 2026 approaches in only so few weeks to still go, and then we catch sight of 2032 scmp.com Trump’s tariffs put science to the test. Why US labs could suffer more than China’s Updated: 10:46pm, 14 Apr 2025 Washington’s experiment with tariff trade torment makes lab costs soar; ‘it’s like doubling the price tag’, US researcher says The tariff war launched by US President Donald Trump has suddenly raised the cost of critical imported research supplies for scientific labs in the United States and China. In the past week, Trump has raised “reciprocal tariffs” on Chinese imports to 125 per cent, bringing the effective tariff rate to about 156 per cent and prompting Beijing to further boost its additional tariffs on US imports to 125 per cent. “We are talking about everything from glassware and reagents to spectrometers and DNA sequencers. These are the core infrastructure of modern science,” said Tinglong Dai, who studies global supply chains at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Open Questions \| China may be stunned by Trump’s lack of caution and understanding: ex-diplomat Kerry Brown King’s College, London professor says he ‘cannot think of a worse tactic’ than threatening Beijing and presenting ‘zero-sum’ options Published: 6:00am, 14 Apr 2025Updated: 10:13am, 14 Apr 2025 Kerry Brown is professor of Chinese studies at King’s College, London, whose research focuses on Chinese elite politics and its diplomatic strategies. Brown lived in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia between 1994 and 1996 and worked as a British diplomat in Beijing from 1998 to 2005 and served as the first secretary in Beijing from 2000 to 2003. After moving back to Britain, he directed the Europe China Research and Advice Network, a three-year project that started in 2011 to provide advice on China to European Union foreign services. This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here. We want to start with the latest tariff situation between China and the US. In your view, how might this affect their respective economies as well as the broader global economy? As the United States continues to exert maximum pressure on China, how should China respond strategically? I think China was expecting this, and in many ways set in place some degree of diversification and policy response to what Trump is doing. It has markets and supplies now in the Global South and has been working on these since the start of the pandemic. China has also been working hard on addressing its technology deficit with the US, expanding its [research and development] expenditure by 10 per cent at the National People’s Congress earlier this year, and now working on trying to decouple as far as possible from the US. Following up with your point on decoupling. The call for US-China decoupling began during Donald Trump’s first term. Given the recent developments, would you say the two countries are now entering a phase of full decoupling? Is China at risk of becoming increasingly isolated and having to navigate this complex global environment on its own? Would you consider this period one of the darkest moments for China in terms of global trade? I think that for the Trump administration, the Chinese must be stunned by the lack of caution and understanding that he has of how China negotiates. I cannot think of a worse tactic than threatening and presenting China with zero-sum options. This is a country, after all, with such a strong narrative in its head of never again being victimised and bullied, that everything Trump is doing is only likely to make China stand its ground even more.