China’s export strength despite weaker US trade highlights successful market diversification and limits the impact of US-focused curbs. In response, US/UK/EU de-risking will likely accelerate: supply-chain shifts plus bigger industrial policy for high-tech. #Trade #Economics
This record surplus will deepen US/UK/EU worries about Chinese overcapacity and potential dumping in autos, chips and electronics. Expect louder calls for anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and other defensive tools to shield domestic industry. #Trade #Economics
China’s exports jumped nearly 22% in Jan–Feb, pushing its 2025 export growth outlook to ~5.5% and putting the annual trade surplus on track for a record ~$1.2T. Chips, autos and electronics lead the surge, even as US demand softens. #Trade #Economics
All realist IR scholars and US geostrategists look like fools, with Elbridge Colby most of all. They thought they had developed a smart strategy and Trump would follow it through. Guess what? He despises them as any other experts or institutions, global or domestic, cause he knows better
Now Trump is begging Putin to help him to stabilize oil prices. Next step is for Putin to mediate peace with Iran? Putin is dancing and singing in his bunker.
Unforced error of the US administration, which just declared a strategic pivot to the Pacific and the Western hemisphere, while leaving its other partners hanging in the cold, and then decided to go to another war in the Middle East, is mind-blowing.
Pacific pivot latest news
VSG is tired of winning bigly tonight. Asked Iranians for help.
At times, it feels that insider trading profit maximization is the primary objective of this whole shit show, and I mean all of it, starting from Jan 2025
3/ For UK and European electronics firms, the case is a reminder that U.S. tariff policy can be reversed in court—complicating long-term sourcing, pricing, and hedging decisions. Legal risk is now part of U.S. market access strategy, not an afterthought. #Trade #Economics
2/ If Nintendo and similar plaintiffs win, Washington could face sizable refund obligations and tighter limits on how future administrations deploy broad, long-lasting tariffs. That would weaken Section 301 as a go‑to lever in U.S.-China trade tensions. #Trade #Economics
1/ Nintendo of America is suing the U.S. government to recover Trump-era Section 301 tariffs on Chinese-origin imports—tariffs a U.S. court has recently found unlawful. This puts Nintendo in the middle of the broader corporate pushback on unilateral U.S. trade tools. #Trade #Economics
3/ Business groups warn per‑item or per‑consignment charges could be inflationary and regressive: costs will hit SMEs, single‑item e‑commerce orders and low‑income consumers hardest, raise admin burdens and likely push up UK retail prices. #Trade #Economics
2/ Big UK retailers back the move, arguing current rules let Chinese platforms undercut domestic firms. But they criticise the long transition, saying it delays a level playing field and prolongs distortions in online retail competition. #Trade #Economics
1/ The UK plans to scrap its £135 de minimis customs relief by March 2029, ending duty-free treatment for low‑value imports. This aligns the UK with US and forthcoming EU crackdowns on cheap e‑commerce parcels, especially from China. #Trade #Economics
New research by me @jdportes.bsky.social: we find that the end of free movement and the new immigration regime rather modestly raised the number of foreign-born workers in Britain – by about 200,000 in 2024. Thread. www.cer.eu/insights/imp...
Arguably the only country that’s benefited from the past 10 days is Russia. On top of which, the Iranians have openly said Russia helped target US assets. And the Russians are like yes we did and will do it again. And every Trumper is like “unsure if that’s true.” It’s so messed up.
Donald J. Trump Y @realDonald Trump Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!President DJT 362 ReTruths 1.25k Likes 3/8/26, 6:54 PM
posts u make when things r definitely going well
So much winning!
🚨 NEW: The drone that hit the UK's air base in Cyprus was equipped with Russian military hardware
Irony has died. Russia war gives us glimpse into the future of warfare
This is the way!
🇸🇪 The Swedish Coast Guard boarded a Russian “shadow fleet” vessel using helicopters and speedboats in the Baltic Sea.
The bulk carrier Caffa currently flies the Guinean flag but remains on Ukraine’s sanctions list.
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And this does not help either
WTF are you doing?
Donald, you really suck
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This is quite a brutal indictment of the current US policy, explicitly stating that they want to bring jobs back to the US. The reality is totally opposite.
US tech sector automates itself pretty fast. The last human exiting, please do not forget to switch off the light
Ooops! Expect the US stocks to go up, though
The US and Russia are now co-pressuring Ukraine. This administration will go down in history as the most corrupt the US has ever had — which, given the competition, is genuinely quite the achievement.
