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I think the huge retaliatory tariffs are coming from India rather than China, but it is so ridiculous now I can see the benefits in this little country keeping its head down and hoping no one up there notices we exist.
Don't much like it, because I think it is cowardly, but I can understand why...
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15-03-2025, 08:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 15-03-2025, 09:03 AM by zqwerty.)
'When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.'
U.S. stock market loses $5 trillion in value in three weeks
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/14/us-stock...weeks.html
Sorry I should have checked the claim about China and American beef, it's not true apparently.
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US meat trade days away from getting 'kicked out' of China
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-14/3...tent=other
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Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...-musk-doge
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(31-03-2025, 12:54 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...-musk-doge
Quite a lot of people do seem to be very annoyed, good for them.
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