China Trade War Heats Up as Amazon and Online Retailers Begin Raising Prices While Trump wants $1 Trillion for the Military

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "China is willing to strengthen political mutual trust with the EU," Li said, calling on both sides to safeguard free and open trade and investment.
53% : The draft was circulated among EU trade ministers in Luxembourg on Monday.
41% : China is also not backing down, and may partner with the EU to fight back.
39% : President Trump apparently put out a false post on his Truth Social platform today claiming that China was ready to cut a deal and that he was waiting for a phone call from China that initially caused the U.S. Stock Market to soar higher in early day trading, but when the White House confirmed that tariffs against China will now be 104% after midnight tonight, the Stock Market went back into a free fall and ended up in negative again today.
39% : Just two months after Trump promised to slash the military budget in half, he just announced a $1 trillion increase in defense spending.
38% : Meanwhile, Trump is requesting $1 trillion for a new defense budget, which would be the largest in U.S. history, just two months after he promised to slash the military budget in half, proving that he is not interested in balancing the budget by reducing spending, but by asking the rest of the world to fund our wars and our economy through tariffs.
25% : Bourbon, which was on the EU executive's original list, will not be targeted after Trump threatened to hit EU wine and spirits with a 200% tariff if Brussels targeted American whiskey.
23% : Earlier on Tuesday Beijing rebuked Trump after he announced additional 50% tariffs on Chinese imports, calling it "blackmail".
22% : This proves that Trump is not interested in balancing the budget by reducing spending, but by asking the rest of the world to fund our wars and our economy through tariffs.
18% : " As to Trump's claim that Apple's iPhone can be manufactured in the U.S., a video mocking Trump and Americans working factory jobs went viral on TikTok.

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