Trump threatens 100% tariffs on BRICS nations over US dollar replacement plans

[nahtanbob]

Pakistan's leadership brown nosing of Trump is truly pathetic. It's literally India tier shit.

I don't say these things lightly, but China is already FAR MORE POWERFUL than the US. Most people are dumb so they catch on to things very late in the game. Any country that would side with the US against China, especially in the age of Trump, is making a very stupid strategic mistake.

This rare earths ban is a major power play. This is an ace China has up its sleeve. Do you think China, the most patient, most strategic, most far sighted superpower, would play this Ace card as a cheap trade tactic and let things go back to normal?

No. China is doing this as a POWER PLAY. This is going to cripple the American military industrial complex so that WW3 will not happen and China will supplant the US in dominance in military and tech affairs OVERNIGHT.

This is why Trump is chimping out. This is why he is panicking. He knows China has a shank in his ribs and they are going to disembowl him any time they want. Bullies hate to be in vulnerable positions but all he can do is chimp and howl like a little bitch.

no one in Pakistan does not give a rat ass about how powerful China or the USA is. Are you willing to buy Pakistani products? Are you willing to allow Pakistanis to work in China?
Otherwise, you are irrelevant

 

[ety]

no one in Pakistan does not give a rat ass about how powerful China or the USA is. Are you willing to buy Pakistani products? Are you willing to allow Pakistanis to work in China?
Otherwise, you are irrelevant

Yeah as in the mini Indo-Pak war just happened, how irrelevant.

 

[nahtanbob]

Yeah as in the mini Indo-Pak war just happened, how irrelevant.

Are you willing to buy Pakistani products? Are you willing to allow Pakistanis to work in China?

 

[MH.Yang]

For world peace, the Chinese government should completely ban any heavy rare earth exports used for war machines. If the US and Israel still want war, please use the weapons from World War II, or go to Australia. Australia also has 2% of the world's heavy rare earth.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

For world peace, the Chinese government should completely ban any heavy rare earth exports used for war machines. If the US and Israel still want war, please use the weapons from World War II, or go to Australia. Australia also has 2% of the world's heavy rare earth.

Yes, ban it completely outside of China, whether its the final refined products or the technology transfer.

Anyone who breaches this regulation should be convicted for treason.

 

[Waz]

Biden was the one who started all this. Now he's dying slowly. Where are the democraps now?

 

[Pradotlc]

Trump claims China holding the world ‘hostage’ on rare earths is ‘especially inappropriate’ after Gaza peace deal​

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM EDT

President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, western Japan, June 29, 2019.
AP PHOTO/SUSAN WALSH, FILE

President Donald Trump said Friday that “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea and threatened additional tariffs after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry.

The Republican president suggested that he was looking at a “massive increase” of import taxes on Chinese products in response to Xi’s moves. It’s possible that this could amount to either posturing by the United States for eventual negotiations or a retaliatory step that could foster new fears about the stability of the global economy.

“One of the Policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration.”

The United States and China have been jostling for advantage in trade talks, after the import taxes announced earlier this year triggered a trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Both nations agreed to ratchet down tariffs after negotiations in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, yet tensions remain as China has continued to restrict America’s access to the difficult-to-mine rare earths needed for a wide array of U.S. technologies.

Trump did not formally cancel the meeting with Xi, so much as indicate that it might not happen as part of a trip at the end of the month in Asia. The trip was scheduled to include a stop in Malaysia, which is hosting the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit; a stop in Japan; and a visit to South Korea, where he was slated to meet with Xi ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

“I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so,” Trump posted.

Trump’s threat shattered a monthslong calm on Wall Street, and the S&P 500 fell as much as 2% on worries about rising tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

China’s new restrictions​

On Thursday, the Chinese government restricted access to the rare earths ahead of the scheduled Trump-Xi meeting. Beijing would require foreign companies to get special approval for shipping the metallic elements abroad. It also announced permitting requirements on exports of technologies used in the mining, smelting and recycling of rare earths, adding that any export requests for products used in military goods would be rejected.

Trump said that China is “becoming very hostile” and that it’s holding the world “captive” by restricting access to the metals and magnets used in electronics, computer chips, lasers, jet engines and other technologies.

“I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so,” Trump posted. “This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World.”

The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment.

The U.S. president said the move on rare earths was “especially inappropriate” given the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza so that the remaining hostages from Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack can be released. He raised the possibility without evidence that China was trying to steal the moment from him for his role in the ceasefire, saying on social media, “I wonder if that timing was coincidental?”

There is already a backlog of export license applications from Beijing’s previous round of export controls on rare earth elements, and the latest announcements “add further complexity to the global supply chain of rare earth elements,” the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said in a statement.

Gracelin Baskaran, director of the Critical Minerals Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., said China signaled it is open to negotiations, but it also holds leverage because to dominates the market for rare earths with 70% of the mining and 93% of the production of permanent magnets made from them that are crucial to high-tech products and the military.

“These restrictions undermine our ability to develop our industrial base at a time when we need to. And then second, it’s a powerful negotiating tool,” she said. And these restrictions can hurt efforts to strengthen the U.S. military in the midst of global tensions because rare earths are needed.

Trump’s trade war​

The outbreak of a tariff-fueled trade war between the U.S. and China initially caused the world economy to shudder over the possibility of global commerce collapsing. Trump imposed tariffs totaling 145% on Chinese goods, with China responding with import taxes of 125% on American products.

The taxes were so high as to effectively be a blockade on trade between the countries. That led to negotiations that reduced the tariff charged by the U.S. government to 30% and the rate imposed by China to 10% so that further talks could take place. But differences continue over America’s access to rare earths from China, U.S. restrictions on China’s ability to import advanced computer chips, sales of American-grown soybeans and a series of tit-for-tat port fees being levied by both countries starting on Tuesday.

Just what Trump’s threat meant was open to interpretation, as it could simply be an attempt to gain some leverage under the belief that China has overplayed its hand or an ominous sign of trade tensions leading to a potentially destructive increase in tariff rates.

Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon said “China has not been a fair-trade partner for years,” but the Trump administration should have anticipated China’s restrictions on rare earths and refusal to buy American soybeans in response to the tariffs.

How analysts see moves by US and China​

Wendy Cutler, senior vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute, said Trump’s post shows the fragility of the détente between the two countries and it’s unclear whether the two sides are willing to de-escalate to save the bilateral meeting.

Cole McFaul, a research fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, said that Trump appeared in his post to be readying for talks on the possibility that China had overplayed its hand. By contrast, China sees itself as having come out ahead when the two countries have engaged in talks.

“From Beijing’s point of view, they’re in a moment where they’re feeling a lot of confidence about their ability to handle the Trump administration,” McFaul said. “Their impression is they’ve come to the negotiating table and extracted key concessions.”

Craig Singleton, senior director of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank, said Trump’s post could “mark the beginning of the end of the tariff truce” that had lowered the tax rates charged by both countries.

It’s still unclear how Trump intends to follow through on his threats and how China plans to respond.

“But the risk is clear: Mutually assured disruption between the two sides is no longer a metaphor,” Singleton said. “Both sides are reaching for their economic weapons at the same time, and neither seems willing to back down.”

The Americans kind of know they are destined to be a second rate power…

 

[Pradotlc]

no one in Pakistan does not give a rat ass about how powerful China or the USA is. Are you willing to buy Pakistani products? Are you willing to allow Pakistanis to work in China?
Otherwise, you are irrelevant

You as an Indian know as much about Pakistan as my chair

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Looks like China wants the USA to be dependent on Pakistan for the critical minerals. It's a win-win....

 

[ety]

Are you willing to buy Pakistani products? Are you willing to allow Pakistanis to work in China?

Don't talk your Indian nonsense. Chinese markets are open to the world including Pakistan, most of their products enjoy non tariffs to enter. Further, China is practically a non-immigration country unlike the US, China doesn't accept many immigrants or workers except few qualified ones, that's China's policy. Maybe they will change the policy in the future to accept more foreign workers, but definitely no Indians, who knows, you people can go to work in the US.

 

[MH.Yang]

Yes, ban it completely outside of China, whether its the final refined products or the technology transfer.

Anyone who breaches this regulation should be convicted for treason.

The use of long arm jurisdiction is like drug abuse, which brings momentary pleasure but ultimately inevitably leads to a price.

The use of long arm jurisdiction undermine the global market order, hinder global economic development, and ultimately affect the economic development of one's own country. It will also damage the interests of other unrelated countries, and the credit and diplomatic image of one's own country.

I do not oppose the use of long arm jurisdiction when necessary, such as now when countering the trade war launched by United States. But I firmly oppose the long-term use and even reliance on long arm jurisdiction. Long arm jurisdiction can only be used for retaliation, which is my suggestion.

Please don't forget that we need to learn the lessons of America's decline. If we learn those wrong behaviors of America for the sake of instant pleasure we will inevitably end up with the same outcome.

 

[niubi]

Looks like China wants the USA to be dependent on Pakistan for the critical minerals. It's a win-win....

I agree, let Pakistan be a source for slight volumes of rare earths to USA.

BTW there are dozens of types of rare earth minerals. There are 5 or 6 that are extremely valuable and only exists in China, parts of central Asia and North Korea. Refining up to N2 and N3 conditions are present in the West but exceptionally expensive and complicated. China is N5/ N6 player.

Pakistan should make money off the US (please rip them a new one) and be a source where the taps could be slowed to a trickle and turned off whenever. Pakistan and China should coordinate this strategy but make it appear to the US that Pakistan is a reliable source.

 

[kankan326]

Looks like China wants the USA to be dependent on Pakistan for the critical minerals. It's a win-win....

Pakistan also uses China's tech and machines to produce rare earth materials. China just banned exporting these machines and tech. So Pakistan will stop supplying USA anyway.

By the way, Pakistan definitely lost score to China. We all know rare earth is the most important bargaining card China has over US. China's friend should not betray China on this most sensitive issue and in this most critical timing.

 

[kankan326]

Pakistan's leadership brown nosing of Trump is truly pathetic. It's literally India tier shit.

I don't say these things lightly, but China is already FAR MORE POWERFUL than the US. Most people are dumb so they catch on to things very late in the game. Any country that would side with the US against China, especially in the age of Trump, is making a very stupid strategic mistake.

This rare earths ban is a major power play. This is an ace China has up its sleeve. Do you think China, the most patient, most strategic, most far sighted superpower, would play this Ace card as a cheap trade tactic and let things go back to normal?

No. China is doing this as a POWER PLAY. This is going to cripple the American military industrial complex so that WW3 will not happen and China will supplant the US in dominance in military and tech affairs OVERNIGHT.

This is why Trump is chimping out. This is why he is panicking. He knows China has a shank in his ribs and they are going to disembowl him any time they want. Bullies hate to be in vulnerable positions but all he can do is chimp and howl like a little bitch.

Not just military industry. If China wants, it can destroy US semiconductor industry and AI industry. Semiconductor industry needs rare earth. Since US has banned exporting most advanced chips to China, it is very reasonable for China not to support US semiconductor industry anymore

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Not just military industry. If China wants, it can destroy US semiconductor industry and AI industry. Semiconductor industry needs rare earth. Since US has banned exporting most advanced chips to China, it is very reasonable for China not to support US semiconductor industry anymore

The US and the entire western industrial supply chain is at China's mercy, and they cannot get rid of China either.

Trump's anger is now purely driving by extreme fear.