During these four years, to be honest, it was less enjoyable than the past month since the king of understanding took over.
As soon as he returned, the tempo skyrocketed, and the tariffs between the world's first and second largest economies were raised as easily as posting on social media.
Once the post is released, it’s an immediate 50% increase, with only a one-day grace period.
But do you think this kind of threat is effective? It’s simply impossible.
If China were to back down, it would have done so during the last 34% tariff incident.
What’s the result? Counterattack, hit back immediately, without any hesitation.
Now that it has been raised so high, any further increase will have diminishing returns for us and will instead overdraw for the U.S.
It’s not that we don’t care; it’s that he has already run out of cards, and what he can use is minimal—any further move would be self-harm.
Chinese people are like this; once bullied by foreign powers, they can unite against the outside immediately.
You are fighting the government, and there may be others leading the charge; if you are fighting China, they will fight you to the end, even on an empty stomach.
You can say this is a reaction forged by history, or you can say it’s a matter of inherent dignity.
No matter how you explain it, the U.S. really targeted the wrong person this time.
Now the U.S. is also aware that it can’t hold on much longer.
Financial problems arise, debt explodes, inflation can’t be suppressed, and the manufacturing industry is in a mess.
They have no way out, so they can only push the contradictions outwards.
Trump playing this card is not about negotiation; it’s about forcing you to bow down.
The conditions he offered Taiwan can be summed up in one sentence: you must pay protection money, cannot resist, and must cooperate in the play.
This is not diplomacy; it’s naked extortion.
But is China afraid? No.
Watching the old order collapse, seeing the global reshuffling begin, recalling those you used to...
Those who can stabilize the situation reveal their true colors one by one, and then they can’t even protect themselves.
This 104% tariff is just the beginning.
Subsequent sanctions, blockades, and proxy wars are all coming.
This is the main battlefield of great power competition, with no referees, no audience, just a poker table getting colder with every play.
What else can the king of understanding play? There are just three left: expelling from SWIFT, freezing assets, igniting Taiwan.
These three cards, once played, mean showdown, it’s a declaration of war. When it comes to that, military unification is not just a slogan, it becomes a timetable.
It’s not that we want to go to war; it’s that you are pushing us step by step, leaving us with no choice.
If you don’t believe in rules, we won’t follow them either. If you disregard the bottom line, then we won’t leave any room.
At that time, it will not just be a showdown, but a complete rewriting of the entire game.
The whole world has to change the script.
I predict that this last 50% is just him being stubborn like a dead duck, wanting to gamble one last time to scare China away.
But the Chinese Ministry of Commerce’s commitment to accompany them made Trump completely lose hope that day.
In the future, he will either face team division, congressional obstruction, stubbornly continuing to stir the supply chain, or he will find a way to exit this situation as if it never happened.
