[magicreadu]

The reason they have reduced all tariffs back down to 10% even for the countries that were obviously transshipping (Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia) is that they need time to negotiate with those countries, to make sure these countries now put similarly high tariffs (100%+) on China, so that transshipping is reduced to nothing

[matt-p]

Wouldn't it be smarter to do that before increasing the tarriff to 125%? That doesn't make sense to me either..

[junto]

The user you’re replying to is a brand new account with MAGA written all over them.

[timeon]

There are many people supporting MAGA here (who have their own goals) but seeing true believer, with naive takes, is not that common.

[bitshiftfaced]

If Trump did not counter China's retaliation, then that would've significantly weakened the US's position with every other country.

[bdangubic]

If China doesn’t counter whatever the F we “counter” that would significantly weaken its position with every other country… and the wheel turns with this line of thinking…

except of course Trump brought a knife to a gunfight :)

[bitshiftfaced]

Only, China isn't actively negotiating tariffs with every other country right now, so whether they retaliate won't impact their situation the same as it does from the US's point of view.

[bdangubic]

I really hope you are joking thinking China isn’t negotiating everything with everyone other than USA right now, starting with the very today publicly EU…

[anigbrowl]

That's like saying China's strategy is to get Ecuador and El Salvador to inflict high tariffs on the USA.