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China has told the US it is ready for any kind of war

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AGAA4 Wed 05-Mar-25 15:37:47

Had Trump rattled the tiger's cage?

Whitewavemark2 Wed 05-Mar-25 15:40:47

Yes I saw that.

Things need dialling down, but not much chance with the idiot in USA.

Babs03 Wed 05-Mar-25 15:43:03

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gmd3g2nzqo.amp

Nice to see the POTUS is making plenty of friends 🫣
If Trump is a good business man since when is peeing off trade partners made good business sense.

Oreo Wed 05-Mar-25 15:43:44

Only four more years to go😖

AGAA4 Wed 05-Mar-25 15:47:13

Babs03

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gmd3g2nzqo.amp

Nice to see the POTUS is making plenty of friends 🫣
If Trump is a good business man since when is peeing off trade partners made good business sense.

Thank you Babs03 for posting the link. My phone is being an idiot lately.

Wyllow3 Wed 05-Mar-25 15:48:15

Oh how Trump loves the limelight and the dramatic.

From "All the worlds a stage"

"Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth.

AGAA4 Wed 05-Mar-25 15:50:23

It is a definite threat to Trump. Saying China will fight to the end is quite menacing.
If there is a war will Trump want NATO to help. We should call his bluff and say this is a US war. Nothing to do with Europe.

OldFrill Wed 05-Mar-25 15:52:05

Oreo

Only four more years to go😖

Anyone thinking he'll be out in four years is deluded, although he may step aside one of his entourage will take over. Democracy won't oust then

J52 Wed 05-Mar-25 15:54:00

I wrote yesterday that Trump needed to be aware of China biting his bum! Seems they’re ready to do that.

love0c Wed 05-Mar-25 15:55:33

Not at all. Trump knows China is the threat. Hence he has managed to get the world's largest chip manufacturer to build their factory in Texas. Lured them away from Taiwan. Other large companies now which need chips in their products will no doubt also move to America. America will grow. China will lose business. Very good for the whole world. China is a threat to us all. People need to wake up to this real threat. Starter most definitely needs to wake up!

love0c Wed 05-Mar-25 15:59:34

In opinion Trump has played an absolute blinder! We know many people who live in America and they fully support him for looking after his people. I only wish Starmer gave a fig about us!

HousePlantQueen Wed 05-Mar-25 16:25:03

love0c

In opinion Trump has played an absolute blinder! We know many people who live in America and they fully support him for looking after his people. I only wish Starmer gave a fig about us!

Well, these people you claim to know are in a minority, but hey, you just carry in heaping praise on a sexual predator, multiple bankrupt, racist, misogynist. Unless you are a wealthy, white male you are next.

Grandmabatty Wed 05-Mar-25 16:32:55

Loveoc you write like a russian bot or one of trump's deluded groupies

Maremia Wed 05-Mar-25 16:34:21

Looks after his people? Yes, because his people are the billionaires and he is certainly looking after them. Ninety minutes last night, and what did he say about the costs of prescriptions for ordinary people, or the housing crisis or rising homelesness? Absolutely nothing. And amid all of his big plans did he remind you that he plans to cut 880 BILLION in Medicare?

Visgir1 Wed 05-Mar-25 16:39:12

love0c

In opinion Trump has played an absolute blinder! We know many people who live in America and they fully support him for looking after his people. I only wish Starmer gave a fig about us!

And I know lots of people too who live in the USA. They think the total opposite he's not supported as much as he hopes for.

Rula Wed 05-Mar-25 16:41:12

Friends in USA are saying that talk is Trump might be cosying up to Putin in order to face the far greater threat from China.

I have no idea at all. My friends are Democrats so no fans of Trump whatsoever.

Who knows anything any more.

Cossy Wed 05-Mar-25 17:06:23

love0c

In opinion Trump has played an absolute blinder! We know many people who live in America and they fully support him for looking after his people. I only wish Starmer gave a fig about us!

We also know many people in America, who are absolutely horrified at Trumps actions.

Starmer does his best for for us, even if you cannot see that, if you would rather have Trump as our leader in the UK, you are as deluded as Trump.

Babs03 Wed 05-Mar-25 17:15:02

love0c

Not at all. Trump knows China is the threat. Hence he has managed to get the world's largest chip manufacturer to build their factory in Texas. Lured them away from Taiwan. Other large companies now which need chips in their products will no doubt also move to America. America will grow. China will lose business. Very good for the whole world. China is a threat to us all. People need to wake up to this real threat. Starter most definitely needs to wake up!

There are many of us waking up to the fact that Trump is as big a threat as both Russia and China.
No longer an ally.
Btw Taiwan is not China. Well at least not yet.

David49 Wed 05-Mar-25 17:52:58

As I posted a few days ago one of the reasons Trump did not want to escalated Ukraine was that a dispute with China would leave the US badly exposed.

On the global scale Ukraine is small fry, getting bogged down in Ukraine would leave the US badly exposed to China who are a far bigger threat. Trump would have been advised of China taking advantage of a war with Russia,

Barleyfields Wed 05-Mar-25 17:57:20

looking after his people

I wonder how looked after they will feel when reciprocal trade tariffs start to bite?

love0c Wed 05-Mar-25 17:59:59

David49 Absolutely. The Ukraine war has to stop. I have already said that China is the threat to us all. We all need to focus on that. We won't until the Ukraine war is over. One war is more than enough at once to deal with. China is 'big' in every sense of the word. You can hardly buy anything these days that does not come from China. We all need to get self sufficient away from China. They must not get any bigger economically.

glasshalffullagain Wed 05-Mar-25 18:00:53

love0c

In opinion Trump has played an absolute blinder! We know many people who live in America and they fully support him for looking after his people. I only wish Starmer gave a fig about us!

Daft.

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Wed 05-Mar-25 18:01:30

I’ve said for a while Trump’s wanted Ukraine done and dusted so that he can concentrate on China - his biggest perceived threat it seems.

David49 Wed 05-Mar-25 18:56:11

FriedGreenTomatoes2

I’ve said for a while Trump’s wanted Ukraine done and dusted so that he can concentrate on China - his biggest perceived threat it seems.

A great deal of our infrastructure contains electronics from China, any reduction of supply or service would hit us all hard. That includes the devices we are using now, you can be sure China has advanced cyber warfare ability.

SueDonim Wed 05-Mar-25 19:02:57

love0c

In opinion Trump has played an absolute blinder! We know many people who live in America and they fully support him for looking after his people. I only wish Starmer gave a fig about us!

I know many people in America, where my son lives. Not one of them supports Trump. Trump is only interested in the rich, he looks down upon the ordinary people who constitute the vast majority of Americans and doesn’t care a jot what happens to them.