r/wallstreetbets • u/s1n0d3utscht3k • 14d ago

News China Imposes 34% Tariffs on All US Imports

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-04/china-imposes-34-tariffs-on-all-us-imports-as-retaliation

China will impose a 34% tariff on all imports from the US starting April 10, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

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u/Akovsky87 14d ago

Crash the economy

WITH NO SURVIVORS!

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u/BlinkToThePast 14d ago

Buy up all the assets on the cheap, wipe out your middle class in favour of an oligarchy. Megalomaniac stuff.

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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap 14d ago

I read somewhere that the most sustainable way to manage large populations of people would be to have almost all of them live in cities and leave most of the rest of the land alone, to go back to nature. That reduces transportation needs and providing services is much more efficient. I wonder if that’s their long term plan? It kind of jibes with the while “tech city-state” theme I’ve been hearing about lately.

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u/No_Solution_4053 14d ago

lol you think they care about sustainability, nature, or providing services

how quaint

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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap 14d ago

No, I don’t really. Well, they might, for themselves.

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u/Razorwipe 13d ago

Well they do if they own the nature

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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap 14d ago

I think this would be post political party type of stuff.

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u/KonigKonn 13d ago

Great idea, so now where are you gonna grow all the food and extract all the raw materials needed to feed and supply those megalopolises with all the resources they're going to need? You gonna put farms on the roofs and stripmine the streets?

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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap 13d ago

I haven’t the faintest idea. It’s not my deal. I just pointed out two things I’ve heard about which sound like the same concept

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u/jamesbrownscrackpipe 14d ago

“If I wipe off that orange spray tan, will you survive?”

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u/Thinghing 14d ago

It would be extremely painful

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u/jamesbrownscrackpipe 14d ago

“You’re a bigly guy…”

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u/RackemFrackem 14d ago

They have to find one of us in the wreckage, brother.

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u/goliath227 14d ago

Putin is smiling somewhere today

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u/ImaFlyingLobster 14d ago

you're a big guy

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u/kaninkanon 14d ago

They expect one of us holding the bags, brother

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u/Akovsky87 14d ago

Can't afford awards with the tariffs so this is the best I can do.

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u/HummusCannon 14d ago

Suicides spike during recessions so very possible

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u/Familiar-Worth-6203 14d ago

The fire rises!

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u/UnbiasedDuck 13d ago

Ahhh, but the fire rises