China tells US to ‘stop whining’ over tariffs as it reports GDP growth spurt

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/chinese-state-media-tells-trump-to-stop-whining-as-trade-war-spirals

26 Comments

  1. No_Conversation_9325 on

    China literary called US a freeloader. 🤣🤣🤣

    Time for EU to cut all ties and move on once and for all.

  2. BigIronEnjoyer69 on

    >“The US is not getting ripped off by anybody,” it said. “The problem is the US has been living beyond its means for decades. It consumes more than it produces. It has outsourced its manufacturing and borrowed money in order to have a higher standard of living than it’s entitled to based on its productivity. Rather than being ‘cheated’, the US has been taking a free ride on the globalisation train.”

    That seems pretty accurate.

  3. tracklesswastes on

    I mean, this seems to be calibrated to drive Trump – and indeed, the whole US political and media establishment – into a a rage.

  4. sarcasmismygame on

    Never thought I’d see a timeline where China fighting back with the US warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. I CANNOT believe I feel this way but anyone pissing off Queen Tariffa and company gets my respect. Elbows UP China!

  5. The Chinese are smart people,  just like the Wall Street Journal, they have identified Trump ias the single biggest threat to the American economy. 

  6. Ye_Olde_Dude on

    I can’t argue with the fact that the USA “has been living beyond its means for years.”

    I can, however, argue with China self-reporting its GDP accurately. Can their figure be corroborated independently?

  7. irrealewunsche on

    Growth spurt because US companies were buying up and importing as much as they could before tariffs came in? Any first quarter GDP jumps are going to be suspect this year.

  8. K1ngofnoth1ng on

    Trump started this bullshit… and you know he isn’t doing it from a moral stance because all of his MAGA cult gear is made in China. If he wanted to put his money where his mouth is, all that shit would have been American made from day one.

    Republicans in Congress need to grow some balls to impeach and convict him, but they won’t because it appears most of them have drank the kool-aid, or at least pretend to in return for lucrative financial kickbacks.

  9. TheInfiniteSlash on

    The thing that upsets me most as an American, is that I know China isn’t wrong at all. That is horrible to know that the Chinese Communist Party has a higher moral ground than our own.

    Our current administration blows, and they blew in record time.

  10. CarcasticSunt42O on

    Never thought I’d be cheering for china over America but here we are.

    Give the orange cunt hell boys

  11. SoggyNegotiation7412 on

    Ah yeah, and we believe China’s growth statistics from a country with zero transparency because?

  12. Infamous_Gur_9083 on

    I mean the US did want this.

    They can’t complain when things didn’t go how they expected it would.

    Too bad they can’t save scum.

  13. Complex_Win_5408 on

    GDP growth spurt? From the country that’s known to outright lie about numbers? Mmmk.

  14. If you want to take on China you need intelligence and planning, both of which are nowhere to be found in this administration

  15. There is no better summary of just how embarrassingly bad Donald Trump’s leadership has been than the fact that I’m sitting here, as a Canadian, cheering on the Chinese as they tell the US to get fucked.

    Ten years ago, I’d have struggled to imagine a plausible scenario where I’d be siding with China.