Donald Trump’s tariff threats, trade war, and other aggressive policies are uniting much of the world against the United States.
Meanwhile, China is deepening its cooperation with Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia.
China, Japan, South Korea, and ASEAN pledge to “strengthen regional financial cooperation”
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed that the US government has what he called a “grand encirclement” strategy aimed at isolating and weakening China.
Trump hit China with tariffs of 145%, imposing what is essentially a trade embargo.
The Trump administration wanted to pressure Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and India to follow the US and “approach China as a group”, Bessent said, according to Bloomberg.
This strategy is clearly failing.
The finance ministers and central bank governors of China, Japan, South Korea, and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met in Italy on May 4 and published a joint statement pledging “to further strengthen regional financial cooperation”.
Although they did not mention the United States and its tariffs by name, they criticized the “escalating trade protectionism”, noting how it is “leading to economic fragmentation, affecting trade, investment, and capital flows across the region”.
Japanese officials have been angered by Trump’s tariff threats, and have pushed back against the US in trade negotiations.
A Japanese lawmaker even condemned Trump as a “delinquent kid extorting somebody”.
China and Vietnam have deepened their relations, despite Washington’s attempts to divide them.
China is the top trading partner of Japan, South Korea, and ASEAN.
China is the number one trading partner of more than 120 countries, which represent the majority of nations on Earth.
China, Japan, and South Korea bolster economic ties
This followed a similar meeting on March 30 between the trade ministers of China, Japan, and South Korea, which Reuters noted was “their first economic dialogue in five years”.
The three major East Asian countries agreed to increase their cooperation and move toward signing a trade deal, while strengthening the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a trade bloc in the Asia-Pacific region, which excludes the United States.
This previous meeting was held mere days before what Trump dubbed “Liberation Day”, on April 2, when the US president announced that he would impose high tariffs on countries around the world.
Members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade bloc
China and Europe improve relations
Trump’s tariff threats have similarly pushed China and Europe closer together, at least economically.
On May 6, Beijing announced that China and the European Parliament had agreed to lift restrictions on mutual exchanges between the legislative bodies of the two sides.
The South China Morning Post likewise reported that “leaders of China and the European Union agreed … to deepen cooperation in the face of challenges posed by US President Donald Trump, in letters exchanged to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties”.
China’s President Xi Jinping wrote that “a healthy and stable China-EU relationship will not only achieve mutual success, but also illuminate the world”, calling to “adhere to multilateralism, defend fairness and justice, oppose unilateral bullying, work together to meet global challenges, and jointly promote an equal and orderly world”.
European officials told Beijing that the EU “remains committed to deepening our partnership with China”, in a “balanced relationship, built on fairness and reciprocity”.
China-US trade talks are only preliminary
Beijing did announce on May 7 that it is willing to participate in talks with the Trump administration.
However, journalist Fred Gao noted that the word used by Chinese officials was “talks” (会谈), not “negotiations” (谈判).
“This subtle but significant distinction suggests these were just preliminary discussions, and the real negotiation is yet to start”, Gao explained.
Trump, meanwhile, has refused to budge on his sky-high tariffs of 145% on China.
When asked at a press conference if he would soften some of his extreme policies to facilitate talks with China, Trump replied with one word: “No”.
Eric Arthur Blair
2025-05-10 at 05:50
Trumpty Dumpty: We hold all the cards in Ukraine.
Putin: No you don’t, Russia holds all the cards
Trumpty Dumpty: We hold all the cards in the tariff war.
Xi: No you don’t, China holds all the cards, China actually MAKES all the cards.
Trumpty Dumpty: We won a great victory over the Houthis who have capitulated, so we are leaving the Red Sea.
AnsarAllah: Run away, you chickenshits, we just deep sixed another of your FA-18s even as you turned tail.
https://podbay.fm/p/judging-freedom/e/1746802555
AnsarAllah are the only group actively standing up for the Palestinians who are being genocided and starved to death by the ZioYankees.
https://www.972mag.com/gazan-children-starving-israeli-siege/
Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the USSR’s victory over the Nazis.
Russia / the USSR lost 27 million people in WW2 (vs the <400k losses by Johnny-come-lately USA). It was Russia that liberated Auschwitz and liberated Berlin, forcing Hitler to suicide. It was Russia that killed 83% of all Nazis in WW2 and evicted them out of Kursk in 1943 and again had to evict Nazis out of Kursk in 2025. The USA and it's Euro poodles today are trying to rewrite history and take credit for everything and even banned Russia from western VE day celebrations.
https://podbay.fm/p/judging-freedom/e/1746823337
JonnyJames
2025-05-12 at 10:06
A young Ukrainian lawyer from Kiev told me a few years ago: the Germans invaded the USSR to defend itself from “Russian aggression” and that Stalin had plans to invade and take over all of Europe, so the Nazis were the defenders of “European Civilisation” and the USSR were the “bad guys”. I am not exaggerating.
I had read that this sort of thing was what was being taught in Ukraine, but when an “educated” person told me that to my face, I was gobsmacked.
And the historical ironies never cease. The genocide of Palestine continues apace.
While we do see US policy pushing countries together in some ways to oppose the US, we also see that there is no coordinated or countervailing force to stop the US/UK/Israel and the genocide or other heinous policies. (Ansar Allah (Houthis) seem to be the only ones willing to fight.)
The reckless, and ruthless declining empire has shown its willingness to bring the world to the brink of annihilation. The US/UK/Israel has the “Samson Option” looming in the background. Is anyone willing to call their hand to see if it is a “bluff”?
Eric Arthur Blair
2025-05-12 at 16:50
UNMISSABLE INTERVIEW
Russia was provoked to intervene in Donbass in 2022 after decades of US skullduggery in Ukraine, engineered by the Droolin’ Nuland bitch brigade. Just as Genocide Joe fled from a failed Afghanistan to focus on Ukraine, now Trumpty Dumpty is fleeing from a failed Ukraine to focus on Taiwan. The Elbridge Colby bitch brigade is using their ventriloquist dummy DPP party in Taiwan to eliminate opposing voices and incite war against China and they are more than happy to fight to the last Taiwanese, Korean, Jap and Filipino to “weaken” China even though the US CAWPs* know victory is impossible. Such a war will definitely destroy the global economy and will pose a horrifically high risk of nuclear Armageddon = human extinction.
Recently > 300,000 ordinary Taiwanese demonstrated on the streets against this vile US agenda, with zero reporting from the Western media.
Korean analyst KJ Noh lays out the facts clearly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfSDBSn9JII&pp=ygUPay5qLiBOb2ggbGF0ZXN0
*Chickenshit Armchair Warmongering Psychopaths
JonnyJames
2025-05-13 at 08:29
Thanks for the link EAB, KJ Noh is a great source.
Eric Arthur Blair
2025-05-13 at 20:48
JJ: I am becoming a fan boy of KJ Noh, so erudite, well spoken, humorous and humane. I am not sure if he is a US or South Korean citizen, but if the latter, he would make a damn good South Korean President.
Other news:
Is the downing of French Rafale jets by Chinese J10 jets another “Deep Seek” moment for the West?
Also, Trumpty Dumpty backs down on his tariffs, proving that he and his economic team are truly faaarking morons.
You cannot make this crazy stuff up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6g6fE0POQA
Eric Arthur Blair
2025-05-15 at 06:55
https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/12/joint-statement-on-u-s-china-economic-and-trade-meeting-in-geneva/
“American morons… may think that China reducing tariffs by 115% to 10%, while U.S. reducing tariffs by 115% to 30% is somehow (an) American win”
Who pays the tariff (=tax) on the imports? Ultimately it is the consumer.
So Chinese will pay 10% more for US goods, but Americans will pay 30% more for Chinese goods.
American moron: We win!
Chinese consumer: Good for you!! May you have many more such “victories”, may you “victory” yourself into bankruptcy.
Eric Arthur Blair
2025-05-16 at 20:10
Hee hee hee.
Desi foxsplains why Qatar gifting a new jumbo jet to Trump is not a bribe at all, it is a GOOD thing.
“name ONE time a plane from the middle east ever did anything bad to America”
https://youtu.be/4AkRaXwPWms
Definitely beats getting a golden pager from SatanYahoo which was not a hidden message at all, oh no. https://www.timesofisrael.com/pms-office-confirms-netanyahu-gifted-trump-a-golden-pager-at-white-house-meeting/
Meantime Trump shakes hands* with AlJolani AKA AlSharrar, the new chief warlord in Syria with a “strong past” , who just a few weeks ago had a $10 million bounty on his head POSTED BY THE USA, for being an AlQaeda / ISIS terrorist, but all that has been flushed down the memory hole by the Western mainstream media. Terrorism, shmerrorism, show me the money (or oil or minerals).
https://youtu.be/IwDYwzdvNlI
*with his small hands
Describing the US$142 billion deal with Saudis for sub-par US weapons** as the biggest arms deal ever is WRONG, given the AUKUS deal for AU$368 billion or US$236 billion for sub-par US submarines.
NOBODY can beat Australians in the game of stupid, NOBODY.
**eg dodgy F35 jets that the USA can electronically disable at any time.