so trump has made a new offer regarding US support of EU, they have to all stop buying from russia (which hungary, turkey and slovakia are refusing) AND china now they have to tariff.

quite hilarious, because like half of durable goods sold in europe these days that are made in china (as opposed to competitors like korea or malaysia or vietnam) and by that i include practically everything from household plastic widgets to kitchen appliances and so forth. european marketplaces are flooded with all kinds of chinese goods way beyond what is reasonable, and european manufacturers are disappearing one by one. i buy a shower hose and head from the local shop in boaventura, yes, china. a lot of the gardening tools tho, french. but good luck finding a french or spanish shower and hose anywhere outside of those countries, and these chinese shit things crack and fuck up within a month or two, can't handle heat, or pressure, and i actually asked one hardware store guy "you don't have anything made out of metal? or not from china?"

and the chinese goods basically are broken from the moment you buy them, and made with absurdly small amounts of materials. and probably a lot of the things labeled as originating in europe are made out of chinese steel and parts.

nothing that is marked stainless steel, resists rust very well.

chinese manufacturing is second rate, even in electronics, which i've been noticing a steady decline again after ROHS fucked up everything back around 2007, they are returning to failing the minute the warranty expires.

and we all know which little cadre of elitist "financiers" all laud china as a model for the future. the same ones funding antifa and communist parties and woke city councillors across the planet.

so yeah, it's probably not gonna happen, and i think that people are gonna have a rude awakening soon when they find out that communism has basically stealthily crept up on the whole world and taken over everything. and i don't mean china communism, they are just the favourite.