Stocks Plunge After Trump Vows to Retaliate to China "This Afternoon", Orders US Companies to Find "an Alternative to China"
By Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge
Anyone who was hoping for a quiet end to the week is currently having a panic attack, as first China announced new tariffs on the US, then Powell’s J-Hole speech came and went, and then, as we expected, Trump responded to China’s trade war escalation when in a barrage of 4 tweets he lashed out at Beijing, saying “We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them“, and ordered “Our great American companies… to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.“
He also ordered “all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE, all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said this would stop – it didn’t.”
The reason for Trump’s ire: the continued theft of US IP over the years:
Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them
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But Trump wasn’t finished, and filling traders with dread what he may announce next, he promised that “I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon.”
We can’t wait to see what Trump unveils in his pursuit of Quantitative Easing sparked by global economic war, just as we explained three days ago in “Mr. President, This Is How To Get The Fed To Launch Quantitative Easing“.
From Trump:
Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them.
The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP.
Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.
I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States.
Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE, all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said this would stop – it didn’t.
Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China. We will keep it that way!
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far….
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
….better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing..
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
….your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,….
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
….all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said this would stop – it didn’t. Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China. We will keep it that way!
Both yields and stocks tumbled on this “unexpected” escalation…
… while the dollar plunge accelerated amid the earlier chatter that Trump may announce FX intervention “shortly” …
… which in turn sent gold soaring to $1,530.
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Trump finally sees the light. I have always been calling the Chinese YOUR enemy. They don’t like you. Will cheat you. All Chinese see is the $$$ sign. Disgusting people – they have NO honor, unlike the Japanese.
Look how they build up their military to one day ATTACK you. Steal all your secrets both military and industrial.
But worst all their products coming here are CRAP. Cheaply made that I simply resign myself to having to replace it eventually because it will break, fall apart or disintegrate right before your eyes usually before years end.
Everything I got from them is literally in pieces and headed for an American landfill. I don’t ever recall products made elsewhere being SO bad. Even when Sony sends their products to be made in China they break. SHOCKING lack of quality from Sony. Just cheaply made, ill fitting, cheap buttons, etc.
I bought (for the first time) automobile parts made in China. Had to return the part after I installed it. It LEAKED. All the other parts are made in China. Just hope it holds together. I told the guy all my life I never had a part like this that leaked. NEVER.
China got to go. Trump is right. Look elsewhere. *uck the Chinese. Cheap basturds. Can’t trust them. They are going to attack you one day using YOUR stolen technology.
It was a big mistake to open manufacturing there. It was also a big mistake to take the dollar off the gold standard. Both of these came from another basturd – Richard Milhouse Nixon. Cheap crap products and a worthless dollar to pay them with.
I think Nixon is laughing in his grave. So much politicians HATE America and leave you holding the bag.