China is ready for the trade war
China is ready for the trade war
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I've been on rednote for three months and if there's one thing I've learned about China, it is they are very proud of their reforestation efforts
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I really want to see Trump plant a tree. Like, take a spade, dig a hole and put a sapling in there. It would be amazing.
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new rule: any candidate for elected office should video themselves planting a tree
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There might be more to this. Never underestimate communist leader planting trees. For example in 1940 Stalin and Beria planted trees around the airport at Smolensk and in 2010 fash president of Poland Kaczyński (with lots of his cronies) died in plane crash there.
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It is well known that communist trees can sense nearby fascists, and then respond accordingly.
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To
IsengardBerlin! ThoughIsengardBerlin be ringed and barred with doors of stone; ThoughIsengardBerlin be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone, We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door; For bole and bough are burning now, the furnace roars - we go to war!
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If we have any Chinese spies on here, please recruit me so that I can do ecological restoration.
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wassup Beijing
plants tree
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if this was about a head of state within the imperial core or periphery ignoring developments in designated foreign adversaries, it'd be rightfully lampooned as site tagline material. this is nonsense drivel on par with 'kamala green suit' epic clapback trash
Elsewhere, governments may have been glued to the television
begging for one example, the entire screenshotted excerpt hangs on this (likely imaginary) counterexample
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hey quiet nerd, china good
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the entire screenshotted excerpt hangs on this (likely imaginary) counterexample
This BBC article was released on April 4
This CGTN video was posted on April 4
There is a CGTN article here with another video that dates the planting event as April 3rd.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-04-03/VHJhbnNjcmlwdDgzODM1/index.html
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Grandpa Xi 🥹
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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I wasn't talking about the tree planting. I was talking about the text I quoted. Here it is again.
Elsewhere, governments may have been glued to the television
I think the PRC and CPC are great! I just hate this style of 'journalism'. If anything, the news here is that the bastion of reactionary liberalism in the BBC is doing it for the PRC. I.e. their trump derangement is stronger than their sinophobia.
When I wrote the bit you quoted:
the entire screenshotted excerpt hangs on this (likely imaginary) counterexample
I meant that the framing of the article, that the tree-planting was a deliberate 'message to Washington', hangs on the hypothetical (other governments glued to the television) that the author assumes to be true.
If we don't give the publisher the benefit of the doubt (and when it comes to the BBC, I don't), this is just another form of orientalist 'China-watching'. Except instead of the author picking apart some inane nonsense to paint those inscrutable orientals in a negative light, they're doing so to paint them positively.
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Let libs enjoy things
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real, this is giving
whitepeopletwitter but red lmao
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Something really beautiful about planting trees you won’t see flourish within your lifetime
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Xi is just aura farming at this point
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Politics aside starting a trade war with the country that has centralized control of every sector of the economy and can make rapid top-down changes to it in times of crisis just sounds like a really stupid thing to do when your own economy is just "make sure rich people stay rich no matter what nothing else matters"
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Hell yeah
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lol
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literally this
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