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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

    Based on the already established history that the Biden administration kept Trump's first term section 301 tariffs on China

    In relationship to Canada, Biden kept Trump's tariffs on soft wood lumber imports and actively doubled them.

    Biden also aggressively expanded duties on Chinese electric vehicles by 100%, 50% on solar cells, and 25% on lithium-ion batteries, steel, and aluminum.

    Biden also reinstated 25% tariffs on Mexican steel

    The Americans support tariffs on their trading partners and their perceived enemies, which is most countries.

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  • [–] 0 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    This is an absolutely ridiculous way to read the situation, and demonstrates a deeply thoughtless and unserious approach to understanding politics and international relations in general.

    There are very specific reasons why both Republicans and Democrats agree on putting tariffs on those products and goods. That's not even remotely comparable to the current situation where Trump is just wildly tariffing everything in a completely deranged, scattershot approach. Even his own party doesn't agree with his current tariff policy, they're just too craven to actually stop him doing it.

    What you're doing is just pointing an inflatable dinghy and The USS Gerald Ford, and saying "These both float, therefore the dinghy is capable of launching aircraft." Sure, if you ignore literally every single distinction between two things, they're the same.

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