Trump Blinked

[Vambram]

China named ‘world’s lead executioner’ in top persecutors list

China has been named the world’s lead executioner in Amnesty International’s annual report on global capital punishment, which estimated that thousands were put to death in the country in 2024. The watchdog said China’s secretive practices, combined with ongoing religious persecution, set it apart even from countries with record-high confirmed execution counts.

Amnesty recorded at least 1,518 executions globally in 2024 — the highest number in a decade and a 32% increase from the previous year. The figure does not include executions in China, North Korea and Vietnam, where the death penalty is widely believed to be used extensively, but government secrecy prevents verification.

China’s opaque death penalty system, coupled with its persecution of religious minorities, including Christians, Uyghur Muslims and Falun Gong practitioners, places it at the center of global human rights concerns.

China named ‘world’s lead executioner’ in top persecutors list

China has been named the world s lead executioner in Amnesty International s annual report on global capital punishment, which estimated that thousands were put to death in the country in 2024 The

www.christianpost.com

Why does the free world still want to continue to do business with the evil communist government of China?

 

[Vambram]

Trump’s Tariffs Are A Global War On Slave Labor.
Trump didn’t wait for approval from Ivy League economists to act on what should be common sense: You don’t compete with slave labor, you crush it.
ave you ever wondered how China sells us a toaster for $30 and still makes a profit? Here’s the secret: It’s not innovation — it’s exploitation.

While global elites squawk about “free trade,” President Donald Trump has put his foot down and lifted the lid on what has let foreign nations eat our lunch: forced labor and modern-day slavery.

On April 2, 2025, Trump declared “Liberation Day” and imposed reciprocal tariffs on dozens of foreign countries, in part to stop America from turning a blind eye to countries that take advantage of the U.S. market by destroying domestic competition in favor of cheap imports. But Trump’s tariffs were not just economic, they were moral. Rather than relying on foreign countries, particularly China, that benefit from abusive labor practices, Trump put America first by deciding the U.S. must stop pretending inexpensive products come with no human cost.

Silent Genocide of Muslim Slaves in China
The leaders of the Democratic Party, of course, lost their minds. The same cohort that spent Trump’s first term trying to smear the populist change-maker as a “racist” was outraged that he was doing something about real slavery.

During Trump’s first term, his administration repeatedly highlighted human rights abuses abroad, especially in regions like China’s Xinjiang province, where the Chinese Communist Party is running forced labor camps filled with Uyghur Muslims. More than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims have been detained by China and sent to reeducation camps in what is called the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Zone” for a range of reasons, including attending religious services, having more than three kids, or texting verses from the Quran.

China forced many of its religiously and ethnically targeted workforce to toil away in factories, making products distributed and sold across the globe. Muslim slaves in China produce countless store shelves worth of goods, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, such as textiles, hair products, and aluminum, among many other things. They get extremely low pay, can’t contact or visit their families (unless, in some circumstances, they are heavily surveilled by the government), and they can’t leave.

In June 2020, President Trump signed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, a bill sponsored by then-Sen., now-Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. This legislation required the president to issue sanctions to hold China accountable for its human rights abuses. In one of its final acts, the first Trump administration said China was committing “genocide” against the Uyghurs and other Muslim populations, adding that Chinese officials were “engaged in the forced assimilation and eventual erasure of a vulnerable and religious minority group.”

Trump Tariffs Cut Off Slave Labor’s Lifeline
Trump’s tariffs are, in part, a continuation of his first term’s crackdown on China’s human rights violations. They are a way to penalize regimes and economies that tolerate or directly reap rewards from such heinous practices. By making imported goods from countries with poor labor records more expensive, tariffs could discourage U.S. companies and consumers from supporting exploitative supply chains. Tariffs could force companies to source materials and base manufacturing in locations with ethical labor standards, especially the U.S., while simultaneously pressuring offending governments to improve their treatment of workers.

Trump incensed the same people who asked, “Who will pick the crops if we don’t have illegal immigrants?” The same people who pushed for open borders, celebrated Biden’s illegal migrant mayhem, and cheered when U.S. jobs were offshored to undercut American workers have no problem with slavery if it protects their positions of power. Just like the environmentalists who were all sunshine and rainbows about importing oil from other countries while preventing the use of American energy, anti-slavery “activists” have no issue with slavery if it is silent and out of sight.

For decades, D.C. politicians played patty-cake with hostile regimes that treated workers like disposable parts. And here’s the real kicker: The same people who scream about “equity” and “human rights” turn around and cry foul when Trump dares to start a “trade war” with real slaveholders. How dare Trump make their iPhones a little more expensive, they bemoan while calling Elon Musk and other administration officials “oligarchs” from the opposite side of their mouths.

Trump's Tariffs Are A Global War On Slave Labor

Trump didn’t wait for economists' approval to act on what should be common sense: You don’t compete with slave labor, you crush it.

thefederalist.com

 

[Say it aint so]

Trump says U.S. will set tariff rates for most nations within weeks​

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"[W]e have, at the same time, 150 countries that want to make a deal, but you're not able to see that many countries," Mr. Trump said during a Friday business roundtable between the U.S. and United Arab Emirates. ​

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Mr. Trump said the letters will be sent by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, adding that the rates "would be very fair, but we'll be telling people what they'll be paying to do business in the United States."​

Over one month later, and not one trade deal. Not even with countries where we share zero tariffs.
Now they will just be sending letters telling people Americans what they'll be paying to do business in the United States.

 

[sjastro]

Now that the decision has been made of sending letters to nations stipulating America's tariff and trade conditions, the White House is scrambling a letter sent to the Heard and McDonald Islands will be understood by the penguins.
It has accepted a radical proposition of creating a position vacancy contrary to its ideological position of firing federal employees so its letter will be fully comprehended.

 

[Bradskii]

China named ‘world’s lead executioner’ in top persecutors list

The death penalty is a moral outrage. I agree. Stand up and show the world a good example.

‘So much of this seems vengeful’: alarm as Trump recommits to death penalty

President says he’ll help states execute people but experts skeptical of bold pledge to expand capital punishment

www.theguardian.com

In passing, your incarceration rates are well over 4x that of China.

 

[BPPLEE]

The death penalty is a moral outrage. I agree.

‘So much of this seems vengeful’: alarm as Trump recommits to death penalty

President says he’ll help states execute people but experts skeptical of bold pledge to expand capital punishment

www.theguardian.com

In passing, your in arceration rates are well over 4x that of China.

Haha, if you believe the Chinese

 

[Vambram]

Haha, if you believe the Chinese

Exactly right, my brother. It is just about impossible to really believe anything that the Chinese government says.

 

[Bradskii]

But Trump’s tariffs were not just economic, they were moral.

I'm sure not it was an honest error. But you forgot to quote Trump on the moral reasons for his tariffs on China.

And isn't he worried about child labour in places like the DRC? From here: How Trump’s tariffs will turbocharge child deaths in Africa

'Even as the US government considers a “minerals-for-security” deal with the DRC, the tariff war is forcing US companies to sidestep Chinese supply chains – turning more directly to Congolese cobalt or funnelling it through Indonesia to conceal its origins.

Former child miners maimed in cobalt accidents and families of those who died took US tech giants such as Apple and Tesla to court, accusing them of profiting from their suffering. But the case was dismissed last year, and with it, the chance for justice or reform.

And Trump’s tariffs are pouring fuel on the fire.'

How about some moral outrage for actually cutting help to the DRC? Oxfam reaction to USAID funding cuts in DRC | Oxfam International

Commenting on news today that the US has confirmed the termination of USAID funding for multiple life-saving projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Oxfam Country Director Manenji Mangundu said:

“These USAID cuts will have an immediate and devastating impact on millions of the world’s most vulnerable people who depend on humanitarian aid for survival.

“For the half a million people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, already desperate for food, water and shelter due to the spiralling conflict, the impact will be immediate and life-threatening.

“USAID was the leading donor in DRC and most aid agencies here relied on its funding to provide life-saving assistance. Without it, agencies will be forced into having to make terrible triage decisions including who gets to live and who might needlessly die.'

This faux outrage about Chinese workers and any risible attempts to pass off Trumps tariifs as some moral crusade is indefensible.

 

[Bradskii]

Haha, if you believe the Chinese

It's Trump I believe, when he says you should be executing people.

 

[Vambram]

I'm sure not it was an honest error. But you forgot to quote Trump on the moral reasons for his tariffs on China.

And isn't he worried about child labour in places like the DRC? From here: How Trump’s tariffs will turbocharge child deaths in Africa

'Even as the US government considers a “minerals-for-security” deal with the DRC, the tariff war is forcing US companies to sidestep Chinese supply chains – turning more directly to Congolese cobalt or funnelling it through Indonesia to conceal its origins.

Former child miners maimed in cobalt accidents and families of those who died took US tech giants such as Apple and Tesla to court, accusing them of profiting from their suffering. But the case was dismissed last year, and with it, the chance for justice or reform.

And Trump’s tariffs are pouring fuel on the fire.'

How about some moral outrage for actually cutting help to the DRC? Oxfam reaction to USAID funding cuts in DRC | Oxfam International

Commenting on news today that the US has confirmed the termination of USAID funding for multiple life-saving projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Oxfam Country Director Manenji Mangundu said:

“These USAID cuts will have an immediate and devastating impact on millions of the world’s most vulnerable people who depend on humanitarian aid for survival.

“For the half a million people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, already desperate for food, water and shelter due to the spiralling conflict, the impact will be immediate and life-threatening.

“USAID was the leading donor in DRC and most aid agencies here relied on its funding to provide life-saving assistance. Without it, agencies will be forced into having to make terrible triage decisions including who gets to live and who might needlessly die.'

This faux outrage about Chinese workers and any risible attempts to pass off Trumps tariifs as some moral crusade is indefensible.

What is happening in the Congo is very sad. I got a question for you. How many nations are actually and really trying to do anything useful to help the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Also, what you claim as faux outrage against the evil communist Chinese government, I see as real outrage against the second most powerful nation in the world which has a truly evil government.

 

[Vambram]

It's Trump I believe, when he says you should be executing people.

He was specifically referring to the incarnation rates in China.

 

[Bradskii]

What is happening in the Congo is very sad. I got a question for you. How many nations are actually and really trying to do anything useful to help the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo?

One less than there was recently.

Also, what you claim as faux outrage against the evil communist Chinese government, I see as real outrage against the second most powerful nation in the world which has a truly evil government.

We can all be suitably outraged. But please don't try to convince anyone that Trump's tariffs are the result of his moral outrage. We're really not that stupid. If you want you to believe that nonsensical line the federalist is feeding you to try to find a reason to justify them then you be my guest. You trying to paint Trump as some moral crusader on a white horse is laughable. I find it hard to accept that anyone has the brass nerve to even contemplate it.

 

[Bradskii]

Exactly right, my brother. It is just about impossible to really believe anything that the Chinese government says.

I can't believe that you just posted that. After a couple of posts showing you beyond any doubt whatsoever that Trump lied through his teeth about the 'deals' he's done re tariffs.

 

[Bradskii]

He was specifically referring to the incarnation (sic) rates in China.

Then how about nearly 4x the rate of Australia? And 4x the number of India. You picked a heck of an example to show China in a bad light.

 

[Vambram]

Then how about nearly 4x the rate of Australia? And 4x the number of India. You picked a heck of an example to show China in a bad light.

Are you attempting to metaphorically paint the evil communist Chinese government in a good light?

 

[Vambram]

I can't believe that you just posted that. After a couple of posts showing you beyond any doubt whatsoever that Trump lied through his teeth about the 'deals' he's done re tariffs.

I don't believe the sources for your posts.

 

[Bradskii]

Are you attempting to metaphorically paint the evil communist Chinese government in a good light?

My English is pretty good and normally when I post something, most reasonable people understand what I mean.

 

[Bradskii]

I don't believe the sources for your posts.

So how about FOX news?

Here's exactly what he said: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...als-time-interview-trade-war-tariffs-00309294

“I’ve made 200 deals,” Donald Trump told Time Magazine in a wide-ranging interview published Friday, “100%.”

Here's the full transcript.

Read the Full Transcript of Trump’s ‘100 Days’ Interview

President Trump discussed his trade war and the economy, immigration, presidential power, and more

time.com

And look, I understand. It must be difficult to face the fact that he's lied to you. But you have to come to terms with it eventually.

 

[wing2000]

"[W]e have, at the same time, 150 countries that want to make a deal, but you're not able to see that many countries," Mr. Trump said during a Friday business roundtable between the U.S. and United Arab Emirates. Mr. Trump said the letters will be sent by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, adding that the rates "would be very fair, but we'll be telling people what they'll be paying to do business in the United States."

Which "formula" will they use this time to determine a country's tariff rate?

 

[FreeinChrist]

Are you attempting to metaphorically paint the evil communist Chinese government in a good light?

You changed the goalposts and are sidestepping the topic in the OP.

China is a communist country, though more way more capitalist that it was when Nixon reached out to China for trade.

Doesn't change the fact that Trump blinked and China didn't. The US can't make a wish and then have all the manufacturing set up to replace what we bring in from China to be sold in our stores. China has rare earth elements that the US doesn't, and which are needed for electronics and other things. And China is a big holder of US Treasuries, which is pretty important to the bond market and our economy.