cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43954112

China ended the first half of 2025 with a record trade surplus of about US$586 billion

Exports rose 5.8 per cent in June from a year earlier to US$325 billion

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Too late. Globalisation has just sized up the US.

    A new leader and government will help, but what a monumental pit to come out of. The first term will be mostly spent plugging holes and repairing.

    Barely six months in and American citizens are on their knees—literally if ICE are there with an unmarked van—and no one’s doing a thing. It’s like every part of the American Constitution was just for show all this time.

    • LeadersAtWork@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Been calling it since Covid. People then were turning their heads whenever some asshole walked into a building without a mask. NO ONE would say anything. I did. Stayed safe. Pissed off some idiots and am better for it.

      The United States as a whole has been complicit for awhile now. Better to not start any waves. People saying they have jobs to keep, bills to pay. Don’t want to risk anything.

      Now, after years of questioning I have one more:

      How’s that going?