"She held up a print-out of a Reuters report from December 2021 that Amazon complied with an edict from Beijing’s government that it remove customer reviews and ratings from a book of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speeches and writings." and if they comply with China's propoganda to surpress problematic information, they better comply with 'Murca's too. The thing is, many have a lot of items in their saved basket and these will either disappear as no longer available or there will be the usual "your item has increased by x". I have said for 25 years that Amazon needed to be forced to allow filtering by country of origin, to allow people vote with their wallets. In any case, there are browser add ons that can show price change over time.
I asked CGPT to compare the Amazon thing to the 2021 dark comedy movie "Don't Look Up" where the administration's solution to a killer comet looming in the sky is to just.. Don't look up. Any journalist, free to take and improve on this especially if you're thinking about the small businesses who WILL be wiped out. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/ "Don’t Look Up… At the Tariffs In Don’t Look Up, a planet killer comet hurtles toward Earth, but the government’s solution is denial — spin it, distract the public, and hope nobody notices until it’s too late. Sound familiar? This week, the Trump team called Amazon’s move to itemize tariff costs at checkout a "hostile and political act." Why? Because it makes clear that tariffs — like the 145% hikes recently added — are taxes on consumers, not foreign villains. Transparency threatens the myth that tariffs are pain-free punishment for other countries. Better to hide the cost in higher prices, avoid uncomfortable truths, and keep the narrative clean. Just don’t put it in writing. Just… don’t look up."
China Caves On 125% Tariff For Major U.S. Export https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/new-china-caves-on-125-tariff-for-major-u-s-export-cmc/ China on Tuesday waived a 125 percent tariff on ethane imports from the United States in a major trade war concession, according to a report from Reuters. China had initially imposed the tariff as part of its retaliation against President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy, which has largely focused on China. While Trump issued a 90-day pause on most tariffs levied against other trading partners and replaced them with baseline 10 percent duties to allow time for negotiations, tariffs on Chinese goods not only remained, but increased to 125 percent.
China stood to lose 10,000,000 jobs on their high tariffs on ethane used to manufacture plastic goods. Now, that the Chinese removed the tariffs on ethane, they stood to lose just 5,000,000 jobs. Chinese suppliers of manufacturers and shipping companies are also, casualties of the trade war with the US.
This is why China will eventually have to completely capitulate. The idiomosai here don't understand how these things work.
Don't hold your breath waiting for China to "completely capitulate". Only 14% of their trade is with the U.S. and they can hold out for centuries.