China warns US it is ready for 'any type of war' as trade dispute escalates

China has warned the US it is prepared to fight "any type" of war after it retaliated against Donald Trump's escalating trade war.

The trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies escalated when the US President doubled tariffs on all Chinese imports to 20 per cent.

Beijing hit back by imposing retaliatory tariffs of up to 15 per cent on selected American goods, expanding export controls to a dozen US firms and filing a lawsuit at the World Trade Organisation .

"If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lian Jian this week.

He said "pressure, coercion and threats" was not the correct way for the US to deal with China.

Lian also dismissed the Trump administration's claims that China is behind the flood of the drug fentanyl plaguing the US, dismissing it as "a flimsy excuse" to raise tariffs on Chinese imports.

"The US, not anyone else, is responsible for the fentanyl crisis inside the US.

"In the spirit of humanity and goodwill towards the American people, we have taken robust steps to assist the US in dealing with the issue."

The fiery language from the Chinese government came as top officials, including President Xi Jinping, gathered in Beijing for the National's People Congress (NPC), which rubber-stamps decisions already made behind closed doors.

Officials announced at the gathering on Wednesday that China will increase its defence budget 7.2 per cent this year, as it continues its campaign to build a larger, more modern military.

China's military spending remains the second largest behind the US and it already has the world's largest navy.

Tensions with the US, Taiwan, Japan and neighbours who have overlapping claims to the crucial South China Sea are seen as driving spending on increasingly high-tech military technologies.

Those include stealth fighters, the country's three — soon to be four — aircraft carriers, and a broad expansion of its nuclear arsenal.

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As I've said, China has been keeping an eye on Trump and in conclusion see him as a soft touch......he talks tough on Hamas, an already decimated Hamas, talks tough to Zelensky but who he needs to talk tough to is the bully Putin instead he cozies up to him.. what a coward. Trump lost the moment to draw a line in the sand, lost the moment to put Putin in his place, lost the moment to announce himself as a fearless leader of the free world and lost the moment to support an ally.

Gosh the pretender Hariss and the doddering and decrepit Biden would have done better.

"Gosh the pretender Hariss and the doddering and decrepit Biden would have done better."

They did nothing for 3 years...except for burning money.

"Gosh the pretender Hariss and the doddering and decrepit Biden would have done better.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Listen Dumbass, you can laugh all you want, that's ok by me the thing is that your cult hero is a proven soft touch, China knows he's going to throw Taiwan under a bus and Russia won't be supporting the USA.

The free world would have lost its leadership.

The times 'they are a changing' has become 'times have changed'

Have another laugh.

Denny

This is BS about Taiwan - if Harris won the election Taiwan and South Korea would have been occupied by now and China - whose navy has gone to live fire ammunition in the sea between Australia and New Zealnd - China would have beenw ell on their way to capture the latter two counties by now,

China had Biden under tight control because of corruption Biden was involved in and Harris husband iis a lawyer repreenting the Chinese Govenment interests and cases in the USA and he gets his instructions from the Chinese Government and Walz paid regular visits to Chibna to get instructions from Pesident Zi.

I fail to understand your garbage about Russia, Russa has been driven into a close alliance with China by the fuckups caused by Biden - and that is where the situation is at present. The US army was on the verge of collapse, There were a severe shortage in recruiting of new soldiers for training bcause of quotas set down by Biden and the fact is nobody was prepared to serve a shit Governmentnd by putting their lives iin danger for a traiterous and corrupt Government, Since Trump took ovet the flood of volunteers exceeded the number that used to join the US Army annually since the volunteer system was introduced,

If you take into account the statements of EU leaders Trump is provided leadership totally destroyed by the mentally deficient Biden and Harris - the most brainless idiot ever to stand for US President elecion, She had no policies in place to deal wth foreign affairs and less to deal with the US internally. .

By the way which countries has Trump :thrrown "under the bus" - please inform us of the countries involved,

Is your name Dumbass?

"Listen Dumbass, you can laugh all you want, that's ok by me the thing is that your cult hero is a proven soft touch"

Ok then, let's test this theory of yours right here and now then...

Let's see ..... who on this forum, would rather have Kamala Harris negotiating directly with Putin and Zelensky .... or Trump.

Since Biden is out the picture from last year already, if it's not Trump, it would have to be Kamala Harris herself.

So....who would want Kamala Harris to sit and negotiate with Putin and Zelensky to end this war ... and not Trump.

Mmmmmm

For now it's just you Denise

DA

Taking into account Harris's history as a politcian she would try and get them into bed and will then surrender to whatever they give her. Stupid bitch that one.

Mike, I honestly can't really see any of our posters who would be willing to risk their reputation on this board, by openly saying that Kamala Harris would and could do a better job than Donald Trump, with both Putin and Zelensky on ending this war... like Denise said above....I just don't.

That is why I openly challenged Denise in front of everyone, to see who would agree with him on this specific issue.... and who knows, some might still do so.... but I just don't see it..... which makes what Denise said above incredibly ignorant to the extreme and very naive.

Ok, so it seems like my initial "Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha" comment was pretty much spot on.

Looks like you are on your own with this opinion Denise ... LMAO

"The West lost its leadership."

Whahahahahahaha!!!

It's actually incomprehensible how somebody is capable of being this wrong, with such regularity and with this amount of consistency in the how badly wrong they are.

You're a special one, Deborah.

Well, how many here support USA's jumping ship & now undeniably simpatico with the evil aggressor ?

A simple question.

Bob, when you can actually start offering some original ideas of your own, instead of slagging off and insulting all the people on here who might not agree with you, I might take you more seriously...

You keep asking everyone for their personal thoughts on this war .... but never offer your own

If we are all always so bloody wrong and so seriously stupid in your eyes ..... then counter that and offer us your solutions instead of insults.... simple.

DA

You must remember that brainwashing of people by the media went back to 2015 starting with the Russian Hoax. They were over the years taught by the media that Trump was controlled by Putin and they never accepted the truth eventually uncovered by various investigations - namely that the Hoax were based on lies concocted by the Democrats and added to and promoted by the Obama WH - using the FBI and ,CIA for the purpose,

Looking at the fact that the Biden Administration was an economic disaster for the USA - the Ukraine was a vehcile for maximum disater, The Defense Department books were not audited since 2003 and in 2023 the House refused to pass the budget for that Department unless the Department is audited in 2024. The Department was orced to appoit a Audit team and the team decided to compartmentalize the massive audit operation. In view of the complex nature of the process the Auditors divided the process into 11 audit program and the first 7 projects were completed and the Depatment was a disastrous failure - between 26 and 30% of the total budget in those parts of the investigation the Depratment could not prove on what the money was spent on and or what purpose the money was used, The books of the navy and air force must still be audited - but bearing in mind that there were major budgets provided the same situation iro of those two compoonents were even worse in those two components of the Dapartment,

Let me expand on the latter two Departments the decision was taken by Trump in 2019 to make sure money is provided every year for the followng major projects from 2019 and in future, namely -

1. to replace the The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle planes of the Air Force with more mdern fiter jets;
2. to build 2 new clea powered and armed submarines per year.

Trump even led the discussions with the aircraft manufactuers and asked the plane manufacturers to quote prices for the planes to be provided and then met with the manuacturers and offered the manufacturers 15% less per plane knowing that DF contracts opertae a 15% kick back system. The audit is likely to reval that since 2021 the 15% reduction was not applied and that is how money was spent on such planes and there are vrious problems with operation of the planes and accidnts has already happened and in the case delivered planes usage is limited sa result.

In respect of the navy delivery of submarines under Biden 8 new submarines were supposed to be completed - but actually only 2 such submarines were in fact built and whereas mney was also be provided for servicing of the existing 60 submaries at present at present 20 of the available submaies have been withdrawn from sevice awaiting servicing.

So where did the money provided for the planes and submaines go? Based on present findings of the auditors and the expected results of the aidits f the 4 componmets to be completed circa $250 billion of expenditure budget of $850 billion total budget was and will not be unaccounted for and that is where the Ukrine War came into the picture - the War became the major vehicle fed into corruption in the history of the history of the USA, The system Trump tried to rectify and he decided to appoint outsiders not linked to the Armaments Industrial complex as Secretaries of he Department - the army and the navy particularly and used the appointees to clear up the unhoy mess, The Democrats tried to prevent the appointments at all costs - but in the end they failed,

Trump realized that the Ukrine War was detroying financial management with no end result being possible and the fact is that Trump istrying to overcome the disaster. That is why Biden "pardoned" some of the people involved in Ukraine corruption - other than his family members he "pardons" include Milley and Schiff but also Liz Cheyne - whose father ws VP under Bush Junior. Miley ws the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and trying to avoid an enquiry under the Biden Administration he resigned a wek before the eection a the end of October when it became clear that Trump would win in the election. By esigning he hought t hat he would not be investigated fir the disastrous mismanagement of the DOD trying to avoid being reduced to the ranks after an inevitable court-mariaal - he tried to escape punishment, Will not work out though, The other "pardon" is of Cheyne. The problem is that Cheyne's father in 2006 awarded an annual contract to Haliburton for provision of services to the Army without going through the normal tender provision. The contrats have been in operation since 2006 in the cases of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, In 2009 Cheyne's father became CEO of Halibburton and the contracts continued until 2021 with the Kaboul disaster the operations of the company cesed iro Afghanistan. Six Months later the contract became applicable to the Ukraine War operating from Poland,

Trump wants to see the USA military service resulting in lead to a stronger USA, respected world wide as leader of Democracy in the world.. For that it would b necessary to clean up the Ukraine War on the basis most avantaged to both he USA and Ukraine - so the character assassination campaign started and the misinformation of Trump supportig Putin started and was swallowed up by brainwshed people on site.

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Ja ouMaaik as Putin supports Putin ( your words) .............. you truly don't know your arse from your elbow.

Dumbass Dense Denise and wee Bungling Buffoon Blobbrain. Two wacked out nasty little Stalinists who have no clue whatsoever.

Everyone is noticing how the woke, angry,, corrupt perverted demonrats couldn't sand and clap for anything Trump said barring the aid supplied to another country!, Ukraine. I was a disastrous look for these anti American Globalist Marxists. Their TDS is destroying them Bwahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Roseanne Barr suggested the demonrats were done as did many pundits. Very notably Bill O'Reilly said he didn't think the democrats would come to power in another 20 years. Of course nobody really knows and I see Gavin Newscum is pivoting to the center a bit.

Have some great info I must share with the oaks.

Beeno decimator and nemesis the far left radical Globalist loons.

Denny and BB

For heavens sake - please provide us with real proof that Trump is helping Putin iro ending the Ukraine War, He always tried to negotiate with problem countries to stop their wars and to make situations safer where problems has neve been solved,

Take some examples fom his first presidency he started negotiations with Noth Korea and he result was that during the remainde of his term the North Kreans did not do any nuclear or missile testing and could have led to North Korea stopping tests totally and avergt possible wars in future and while Trump was President the tests stopped, However, 14 days after the Biden Administration took over the tests restarted and the situation now is worse than it was at the end of the Korean War.

In the case of the negotiations with the Taliban iro withdrawal of he USA froops from Afghanistan Trump said he is determined to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and so would the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Gemany would withdrew their armies. However, during the Camp Davis meeting Trump gave he Afghan reps photos of their homes in Afghanistan and said if any breach of the negotiations and any agreement signed would mean that the homes would be wiped out by rocket and Air attacks, So the Taliban signed he agreement cleared up in advance with the Governments mentioned. In the period of the negotiations there was only one such attack and the day after the attack the Taliban atackers wer wiped out by an Airl attack and it never recurred again for the time of Trump;s presidency,

On 17 January 2021 Biden became President and on 25 January 2021 the German troops left Afghanistan taking wih them their armaments and staff and their families who would be endangered under a potential new Government. The next day the Taliban ignored the conditions of the treay signed and took over the twwn vacated by the Germans, They were not bombed from the Air and the Taliban saw they were proof that it gives them a free hand to conquer the rest of Afghanistan, So tey keep advancing in Afghanistan breaching the treaty conditions to a cinder and nobody in the USA did what Trump said would be punished.

In the end the USA broke the Trump's negoitiated peace treaty and never punished the Taliban for breaches they were involved in. The en result was the diastrous departure from Afghnistan ordered by Biden and Milley - they left the Bagmar base in the middle of the night leaving behind armaments to the value of $83 billion, as well as at least 2500 USA citizens and tens of thousands of Green card holders - that is people and thei families who assisted the USA for many years. It also led to reelasing at leat 4 000 actual terrorists held in two prisons that was part of the Bagram complex, . The outcry was massive and forced the USA to send troops to Kabul to collect USA citizens and green card holders. So what did the USA troops do next - due to an oucry in the USA ? Theyw ent back to Kabul airport to collect the citizens and green card holders,

Kabul airport was impossible to maintain safely and what the US Army did next was to follow he example of the British an Dutch troops did - the two units send jeeps to collect their citizens and workers and the new Taliban Govenment objected to the US Commander and he clashed with the US and Dutch commanders also at the airport, Intead the US Commander gave the Taliban a list of peple they want to evacuate, In many cases it left the listed people in getting a death penalty, In the end 13 US soldiers and over 70 others died as the result of a suicidal attack at th Kabul airport, Also the Dutch Foreign Minister resigned and the UK Parliament passed a motion unanimously to codemn the actions of the USA at the airport. In the end the Biden Regime bragged they evacuated 125 000 people from Afghanistan - bt they were never cross-checked to see how many real refugees the USA promised evacuation was amongst the evacuated people. The fact is that the Afghan Government was in fact evacuated and how many were Taliban terrorists send to the USA, Before the actual final evacuation the USA gave the Afghanistan $67 billion in aid funnelled through the UN to allow for the last evacuation process, On the whole the end f the Afghanistan War was a total disaster for the USA and their allies.

It also promoted instability elsewhere the US influence in tehw orld suffer badly.

The end of the Afghanistan War had a major impact on the racketeers and coruption in Afghanistan who now encouraged the war in Ukraine and it ebcame a major mney source for corruption and rackettering for the same people that looted the USA Government in Afghanistan. Any effort to end the Ukraine War would put an end to criminals associated with the Ukraine war, So the anti-Trump media and the guilty political and bureaucrats involved - s they started a campaign to extend the war - hich Trump tried to stop. The old Russian Hoax method kicked in and he emdia accuse Trump with being in league with Putin - which is entirely BS,

Trump wants peace - but not to the extent that it would damage the reputtaion of the USA and that is where the site dolts are at present. They want the war to contnue with a danger that it could lead to

WW3. To prevent that from ahppening the site idiots want the war t continue and even extended.

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China has been the objective all the time. One wet dream liberals have is to rally Russia in their great war against China. Without wars, China is doomed to keep rising, liberals know it. Probably been a while China has picked the line, the fact they are so open about it is novelty though.