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ObaIgwe1:
1. Chinese Yuan being all time low is not necessarily bad for China, especially at this time of Trade war. Most time China deliberately bring down the value of Yuan. The goal is to make Chinese products cheaper for exports.

2. Of what use is an economic team to Trump when he believes he knows more than the experts and he alone can solve problems?

3. Yes China/Chinese exporters don't pay any tariff to Nigeria and no country pay any tariff whatsoever, but importers of these goods pay the tariff and the cost would be passed down to the consumers. Make no mistake about it, no West African nation charge as much as Nigeria on imports. Or why do you think cars and other imported commodities are cheaper in Cotonou and smugglers takes big risk to smuggle these goods through our porous bother? The problem with many Nigerians is that they prefer imported goods to 'show off' even when better qualities are made in Nigeria. But then it's their money, if they can afford it, let then flex it. But be rest assured the Government collect heavy duties on these imports. Nigeria Customs brings in one of the highest revenue to Govt after oil revenue, despite all the corruption in the system.

4. Don't mistake over bloated ego for balls.

In uk, I pay tarrif for American goods.
I love e made in American but they are not accessible and some are deliberately made not to work. I have been a victim multiple times.
Have complained about it years prior to this.
I don't bother looking into American markets for anything.

And I buy some goods that are from America that is made not to work in uk yet they are sold in pounds. You don't know what you are talking about.

I can easily buy stuff from China direct than from America.

Why is it so since you know best?

As for the rest, I am not interested in them.

basilico:
If you can make those three things , you can manufacture a whole lot more stuff. Means you have n established iron, steel and aluminum industry.

Kpomkwem

basilico:
My top list of items we should ban importing is nuts, bolts and ball bearings.

Mine is kitchen stuffs and clothing

bemeruca:
EU demand US to spend more on Ukraine while they fund Russia and Tariff the US.

What greedy and entitled fellas.

No wonder they want trump dead by all means.
Orange man is rewriting history.

Other countries should copy his template and be free eg Nigeria suffering from neocolonialism.

raumdeuter:
When America was interfering everywhere, Half of the world blamed it for their problems despite taking US Dollars daily

Now Trump is saying we will mind our business and only transact with other countries in a mutually beneficial way. If Assad, Ghadaffi, Abacha, Mobutu etc is killing you, Not our business as long as it doesnt affect our trade

Era of big brother is gone.
Gone for good.

America should learn to be selfish like others eg China and Europe.

basilico:
Trump is milking liberation day fir all it's worth . Over 70 countries have called scheduling for negotiations

Bessent notes at the request of President Trump, all administration officials were to pull back from commentary following the “liberation day” tariff announcement. The objective was to give all nations’ time to absorb the impact while reducing the reverberation noise.

After a few days, President Trump then began to assess the inbound communication from various country leaders and their request for renegotiation. The priority schedule permits the honest trade allies to come first in the que to the office of U.S. Trade Representative Jamison Greer, as approved by President Trump.
The first two countries to get listened to are.
Japan
Korea

Not China , .not the EU.
The agreements reached between Japan and Korea will set the baseline for any further dealsxeith other countries

Korea is nothing without America. Expected them to be among the first.

happney65:
JUST IN: The European Union has approved retaliatory tariffs against the US, calling President Donald Trump's trade war "unjustified and damaging."

E never begin damage them.
What do they have to give America?

Bunch of opportunists and greedy parasites.

basilico:
I wholeheartedly support Trump effort to slay the Panda Dragon. Don't know how they did it ,many African countries import everything from toothpicks,matchboxes,needles, children toys,pencils etc from China

Your country Nigeria import everything from them with zero tarrif. Wonder why we have weak naira.

bemeruca:
Temu and aliexpress will start selling expensive fake things. China is losing this one.

They sell rubbish at the moment.

I'm even surprised at the speed with which they have infiltrated every country

Wimkeh:
China needs US dollars. But the US just made it difficult for them to obtain that dollar with Tariff. American importers will seek cheaper alternatives. Rather than masturbating to the news, Nigeria should make itself more attractive of an export partner so they can benefit.

China has been benefiting from trade deficit since I was born. That is why Chinese goods seem cheap, but the truth is that any good coming from American is taxed at an unbelievable level, making it more expensive

Oh my God, who are you?

You understand international economics very well.
I love people like you. No pun.

Explicitly explained

China is still enjoying the developing nation benefits.

Chinese products killed manufacturing in Nigeria.
We will rather buy their cheap products than manufacture as their is cheaper.
No tarrif ever. Nigeria is their dumping ground. So also other countries.
Democrats out of greed sold out their country for penny from China. This is the consequence. China is about to become number one world power while enjoying massive benefits other countries don't enjoy.

Wimkeh:
Yes, china does have the population. But do you believe that Chinese people don't use iPhone? They still buy their Xioami and other chinese phones. Even when they buy iPhone, it's the knock-off version. They patronize Chinese product rather than Western.

But in America, everyone is using an iPhone. And that money goes back to China to enrich their economy. So can you see? Now There are hundreds of American companies in China doing the same thing.

Even in Nigeria it's the same. All the money we get from Oil goes to importing from China. But China hardly imports from us. We have a huge trade deficit with China but we no get mouth to do anything. They still prefer to buy their stuffs before they buy ours. Americans will buy Nigerian food, buy our oil, damn nearly buy our culture.

Americans are just big spenders like that. But Chinese are more of buying from their own.

Let me even make you understand more, even when it comes to yahoo, which client will you prefer to have? American Client or Chinese client? There goes your answer.

The avg American is a spender. And Nigerians benefit from them a lot. Even people that work remotely online prefer American clients. Never heard anyone saying they got a Chinese client and are happy.

Explain it more to them.
I thought these people went to school.
Basic economics is zero.
So disappointing

lagonovo:
That's some Nigerians for you. Irrational envy easily blinds them so some are hating on America because of some family members there. Na yabbis o

Imagine backing China as saints & US as evil. We have had several Chinese nationals come inside Nigeria to treat Nigerian workers & regular folks like filth. How many times have we heard of an American coming inside Nigeria to maltreat a Nigerian?

Americans established or supported several missionary schools in Nigeria over several decades, can Chinese missions show us their own input outside of buying and selling including producing our garri in China to sell to our diaspora community across the world, killing our tiny local farms.

China pay nothing to Nigerian govt as tarrif for all their good that has flooded Nigerian market over the years. Manufacturers suffer the consequences which means no workforce as they can't compete.
Rather, it's the importers that bears the burden
Shocked they are celebrating this. Nigerians are too emotional.

Acidosis:
No wahala, my brother. Respect to your traditions if that makes you, who are in AI generation with changing economic realities, physically and emotionally sound.

That is not Igbo tradition at all.
These yahoo boys have soiled marriage in igboland outsiders will think we sell our kids to the highest bidder.
In every family, there is a kinsmen lists for marriage. Believe me, the things on that lists is written in such a way everybody both the rich and poor can comfortably afford that. It's the family of the bride that normally start adding 1a, 1b to 1z to just list number 1 if you get my drift. And the girl will boast,girls mum will join in the boasting. Then the bobo will come in like Elon trying to outdo everybody. Even if he borrowed cos they believed that they will recoup that day from money spread on them during dancing. And to show his friend he has arrived, he dare not question the lists given to him.

Bigcowhorn:
I'm lying about my people's tradition but you who's never been to Imo State know better

Funny ode

For the record there is nothing like dollar or gold payment my tradition. Kindly carried that particular lie to your tradition


Money and pride has always been part of the Igbo tradition and culture which is why it drives people hatdwork and success at all s

200k can marry you a wife in Yoruba land or north with even half of that but in Igbo land you are not ready

Imo State and anambra you are so not ready but you can always cut corners if you have reasonable in law

Life goes on

Stop lying.
Just stop.
That's how you guys make people think parents sell their daughters in igboland.

And hey, I am a married igbo woman from anambra. No extravagant spending on my marriage and the high and mighty attended. What is normally required are small. If your woman people demanded for lots of things, ask to see the real ùmùnna lists.
Unless you want to show you have arrived.

And with 100k or less even in this economy, you can marry in anambra state. That, I am very sure of.

grandstar:
You think this is Nigeria?

The crowds are too big to be paid.

These are soros people. Go to X and see their buses. Na Soros handiwork. Has been doing it before Trump even mounted office as potus during his first term.
They were also paid.
Go to America thread and see how much they were paid and how they all left immediately after the protest. They should have continued the next day. That's how to know they are genuine.
Also in each of those states, there are people who didn't vote Trump. Like 70m American voters. They will also join. This is democrats doing what they know how to do best.

bluefilm:
Trump na your mate?

Trump no dey joke na

Guy man means serious business

The useless and hopeless sleepy Joey Biden imported MS13 thugs and gangstas into Amerika with the hope that they will eventually vote and help him swing the votes

Little did he know that God has already chosen Mr Trump to save the world

Now, the useless democratic party with all their assault on Mr Trump, are now discovering that truly, if God be for you, who can be against you!?

EOD.
Thank you.

You know the sole reason they were imported.

Voting for Democrats.
Obama man that came to Nigeria during ore election time helped apc plan the same thing in Nigeria. Illegal allies flooded Nigeria during that time to vote apc. After election, the govt in power couldn't sustain them again unlike the democrats that facilitate them getting underpaid jobs in plantations with the hope of using them again while smuggling in more.

We can see how Nigeria is today.

We are very quick to point fingers at others when we have exactly the same situation and look at the outcome.

grandstar:
Trump the terror of the US stovkmarket.

He will wreck the US economy. I doubt he will last 2 years. Opposition against him is growing fast.

There are protests in the streets.it will only get worse

Hired protesters?
Tell me something else.

dominique:
Nebraska (a farming state) has a workforce of over 60% illegal immigrants who work in their farms at less than minimum wage. Nebraskans voted massively for Trump and the moment he was announced as winner, the migrant workers packed up and fled the state. Now farmers are lamenting that their farms are failing, no one wants to work those jobs at such wages. Forecasters have predicted the state might go bankrupt before middle of this year if the situation remains like this. These undocumented migrants offer cheap labour, pay taxes, don't get any retirement or social security benefits from the government but trump and his goons will ignore all this and be shouting Laken Riley all over the place as if serial killers and mass shooters are undocumented immigrants.

Americans think that some certain jobs are beneath them.
Why are they lamenting. Pay minimum wages and legal migrants will do the jobs.
Why should they underpay workers? That's crazy. What we have in Nigeria and China. Because of cheap labours,illegals should flood America? In a couple of years to come, those illegals will overpower the legals and take over. Anarchy already loading. America is slipping from number 1 to number 2. Once they lose it, they will ne er get it back. Americans are promoted slave trade.
What is happe ing with these illegals is modern slavery. But this is 2025. Don't promote rascality cos of political correctness.

The illegals we have in Nigeria is dealing with us. We always excuse our incompetence and judge others with the yardstick we cannot use to judge ourselves.

basilico:
I've read before that the CCP released COVID during the World Military Games in China before the pandemic or first cases were ever reported.
A bombshell report in 2022 was concealed by the Biden admin in order to preserve Faucci theories

The number of United States athletes and staff who attended the 2019 World Military
Games and became ill with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-like symptoms during or
shortly after their return to the United States.


Read the report by US military here (pdf).

https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2019-World-Military-Games-Report-1.pdf

Faucci is modern day Dr Death and all his accomplishments should be wiped off history books

Wonder why the man is yet to be picked up.

raumdeuter:
Goodluck to the countries that think Trump and America is bad when they have to deal with Chinese Communist Party. If anyone thinks China will be doing the foolish father Xmas of America of the past 40yrs they should ask African countries where Chinese have been exploiting them

In America you at least have laws to hold them to, Good luck holding a Chinese manufacturer to anything

Our Post cold war foreign policies have to be revamped massively. You cannot play a game with someone using a differnt rule

China does not play by our rules, So its unwise to continue with status quo with them

I love chinese cuisines and it ends there. Any other things, run for your life.

China is a one citizen country. To get resident permit takes donkey years. The hassle of getting citizenship is so much foreigners end with resident permits both spouses.
And China hardly give foreigners citizenship.

If you are a billionaire and speak against the ruling communist party, you are done for. Ask Jack Ma. Chinese communist leader messed him up so bad he went into hiding. Dont know if he is out in the public now. Political oppo ents are killed at will.
So nothing like freedom of information. China workforce is still like the master slave setting. I am very conversant with chinese culture. Their cancel culture is like south Korea.

Chinese yaun in all time low since 2023.
Did China expect that? Nope.

You don't know business more than Trump else you would have been a billionaire. Allow him do what he knows how to do best. Business not politics. Every thing is not always us versus them. Always hoping he fail so you will glee I told you so.
I saw that here during the egg madness. Wonder if the prices of eggs is still rising.
Or we have all finally calmed down. The world is shaking cos of introduction of tarrifs by America on their goods entering America. America is not a dumping ground.
You think trump don't have an assembly of economic teams who he discusses everyday before he come up with what he is doing?


If Nigeria has a president with 10% of Trump's ball, Nigeria will be heaven on earth. For your country to go towards the right direction, you should not be afraid to ruffle feathers. Everybody will automatically adjust.


What is currently happening is called the invisible hands in economics.



Let me use Nigeria versus China as an example.
Do chinese exporters pay tarrifs to Nigeria?
No. Infact, I don't think any country pays tarrif to Nigeria. The people who bear the blunt are Nigerian importers.

Have we seen what is happening to Nigerian economy?
That's why their goods are flooded in Nigerian market and cheaper too. What are the effects on our manufacturers. We all know. Because Nigerian govt don't care, industries keep shutting down one after the other. We import virtually everything. We don't export anything.
This is how currency gets weaker. Naira is ordinary paper now. One of the world's worst currency.

If subsequent governments have do e the needful, you and I debating here will be visiting for holiday only. We now have an economy where the purchasing power is so weak cos it has no strength and the people have no where to work.
More yahoo,rituals, kidnapping name them.


America may not reach this level but will eventually if something is not done about it and that is when you will see the jackals and hyenas pounce on once the powerful America. They are more daring now. E get why.

For those of you who are hating on what Trump's doing, you might be out of work in the next 10yrs if care is not taken. Empires rise and fall. Do not think America will not fall. It will if you guys keep on resisting change and advocating for things that don't benefit America.

This is simple economics 101. We shouldn't be debating it.

Give kudos to this man when he says America first and act it. Stop the hate. It's ridiculous.

I like him cos he got balls. It take a man with iron balls to rule a country successfully. Reminds me of late Margaret Thatcher of United kingdom. She was the best prime minister ever. If united kingdom had prime ministers like her after her tenure, the nation will still be standing tall. But, all others were afraid to ruffle feathers and ..........
Here we are. Check out Thatcherism.
So allow Trump to ruffle feathers for your own good.

raumdeuter:
America is the biggest market in the world, everyone wants to sell to America. If American market is not buying your products you are not going far, but these countries don't want America to sell to them to protect their own economy they place a tariff on American goods coming into their own country

The trade off is cheap goods in America vs Employment for people in America

The tarrifs are terrible.
There some stuffs I will want to buy from America. The tarrifs sometimes runs in double digits. Most are more than the price of what I wanted to buy. I can easily buy the same thing from South korea with very little tarrif.


If you want to know what's going on, ask people living in other countries who love made in American products what scares them away. Tax.

cococandy:
Something we can agree on

But do you know who is anti union in America?

Not the left. Red states are notorious for being anti union.

Red states, white states,black states, the ruling class should come together and fight this volatility before it will swallow America.
Ukraine Russian war exposed a lot of hidden truth and emboldened some countries to see the yansh of America.
People can talk politics but, the truth remains that the earlier the better for America.

People might think trump is taking this too far but that's the only option to keep America on the number one spot which is already slipping out of their hands..

Heaven help America if China become the world's number one economy, that's when they will know they have more enemies than friends.

AWONEYAN:
This guy just dey surprise both his supporters and haters....

His supporters supported him cos of things like this.

Uk is ready to deport 40k people who entered UK whose visa have expired but applied for asylum.

Any country who has no capping on immigrants will be completely overrun by them.
Fulani herders or terrorists are simply those illegals imported into Nigeria during 2015 election and since they have served the purpose on which they were brought in, are left to take care of themselves with the backing and orchestration of the ruling party.

We can see how Nigeria is flourishing.

9jatriot:
Nobody used and dumped him. Was he really thinking he could come from nowhere and clinch the ticket from those who have been there over the years?

Did he think it was labor party where a certain candidate left PDP, carried ghan must go with him to Labor Party and suddenly emerged as the party candidate?

That was what they were singing here when he left.

Used and dumped.
He is still in shock.

Lagos boys, over to you.

Android17:
And this is me being sarcastic.

The CIA (FBI etc) and Zelensky (so essentially the C-I-A) tried to kill Trump twice at least. Just like they killed JFK and RFK in the 60s.

Don't worry, the declassified files already confirmed. Nobody is being called a conspiracy theorist again for calling it out.

Zelensky

Iran I can understand but Zelensky
Why?

So he would have loved to continue fighting this war till 10 years or is it because he will be served of funds by Trump?

I don't understand.

bemeruca:
Its a trap. They use our freedom of speech n freedom agaius all the time.

Now they use capitalism against us.

Globalisation and unfavourable laws plus tax contributed to all these. America was acting like they have it all.

I remembered few years back when I had a debate about this with someone here. Exactly what is happening is expected to happen.
Americans can't do those meagre jobs anymore so illegal immigrants come to fill the qouta. Those that can, their companies are not protected You have to lobby for the govt of the day and media houses to shield you. Don't pay your due and they will slit your throat. Companies ran to where they are appreciated and recognised. The explosion of Chinese economy. I was so disappointed when I read iPhone is manufactured in China.
Nigerians hate Chinese goods then and call them chinco not knowing their precious iPhone is also chinco.
Garment industries, cookware etc.

When ninja products flooded the market, I thought they were chinese but it's an American company that has nothing to do with America. Everything is done in china.
They lead a revolution against popular brands in̈ home appliances and the rest is yet to get their bearing. And guess what, their products are very cheap.
You see why I said the country had to sit down and know what they want. Also, as they are in china, they also target african markets especially Nigeria. What other American companies can never do.
For example, Nigeria buy things cash. No mortgage. A win win for manufacturers. Same with other african countries but of course,they looked down on Africa. China didn't do that. Checkout what china make in Africa on average yearly.
American pride killed their industries.


When they are ready, they know what to do. Trump is still on number 1.

basilico:
One of the biggest factors is unions and democrat policies especially on minimum wages. Don't know whether it passed ,gig workers were also on democrat radar in terns of wages and benefits .⁰

When manufacturers started running to China, the govt of the day ignored it. Subsequent govt also ignored it.
Example of brand that is owned by America but has only office in America is iPhone. IPhone is made in China. Yet America take the glory. America made Chinese economy flourish while they are busy with wokeism.
Now, the chicken has come home.......
Trump is fighting for their survival and they are complaining.

Let your unions always have the upper hands.
20 yrs from now if nothing is done, bye bye to the number 1 world power. It won't even reach 20 yrs with the speed China is operating and India is closely following.