Resisting or breaking the law?

Yup. He was getting deported. Republicans say they just sent him to the wrong country because they are stupid. So that means no Republican can get in trouble. Because “I’m too stupid to get in trouble” is still a god damn thing.

On Wednesday, a spokesperson for China’s Commerce Ministry dismissed the additional tariff hike, telling reporters that the move “fully exposes the fact that the United States has become irrational in instrumentalizing and weaponizing tariffs.”

“China has repeatedly stated its position on the unilateral tariffs imposed by the United States, and it has ignored the U.S.'s meaningless tariff numbers game,” the commerce official said.

He said beijing would take “countermeasures” and see the trade war “through to the very end” if Washington continued to “infringe on China’s rights and interests.”

China has shrugged off the latest U.S. tariff hike, dismissing the Trump administration’s threats as a “meaningless tariff numbers game.”

This week, China imposed more export controls on rare earths, which include materials used in high-tech products, aerospace manufacturing, and the defense sector.

And then Trump,

executive order signed by President Donald Trump that launched an investigation into the “national security risks posed by U.S. reliance on imported processed critical minerals and their derivative products.”

“There is no winner in tariff wars and trade wars, and China does not want to fight, but it is by no means afraid to fight.”

His importance was underscored in a leaked text chain on Signal disclosed by The Atlantic magazine last month. In it, Hegseth named Caldwell as the best staff point of contact for the National Security Council as it prepared for the launch of strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

The order came after China unveiled retaliatory tariffs of 125% on American goods this past weekend, the people said. Those levies on their own would have more than doubled the cost of US-made aircraft and parts, making it impractical for Chinese airlines to accept Boeing planes.

And just like last time Trump will give them money to not talk about it.

RTFA. Your comment is what China said. At this level trade basically stops. That’s the point.

“No one could have predicted this”. /s