BREAKING: Donald Trump right now: We may want countries to choose between us or China (From unusual_whales on X). Would your country be able to withstand US pressure to choose?
BREAKING: Donald Trump right now: We may want countries to choose between us or China (From unusual_whales on X). Would your country be able to withstand US pressure to choose?
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Yes
Given that the only thing the US actually produces is entertainment, we will be fine
Spain is getting closer and closer to China and we are among their best trading partners on Europe so… I think we are making our choice clear.
I don’t think so, but I don’t think our government would chose the US if it comes to that.
Second hand embarrassment
I don’t think we have a choice?
Yes
Our government will chose china for cheap electronics and importation (which it’s way better imo) , but we’ll keep selling US people some shit (flowers or who knows what)
What does that even mean?
Chile has bitched out of doing particular deals with Chinese companies due to US pressure, like when the US was going on a crusade not to have its compromised network hardware replaced for Chinese versions all over the world. Recently, some astronomical facility was declined because the US insisted that it could have “military” use. Pretty unsightly if you ask me.
But we’re not going to stop importing and exporting because then Chile collapses. The US is Chile’s third economic partner, they would have to send in the B2s with the Freedom to do more damage than cutting off our main export market would do.
Emotional people tend to react.
As much as I hate the ccp this is not the right move right now. Unfortunately most people across the world would choose cheap prices and eventually economic engulfment from China then to be our Ally.
The CCPs whole setup is to win via soft power and that’s a hell of a lot easier to do via bribes then it is to actually fight anyone and most people won’t even realize they’ve been captured until it’s to late
If we where to choose we probably would do China, the US would just want make us next week to choose between them and the EU.
The us is trash
Argentina has already chosen, and chose poorly
Oh no? Why? He will end up embarrassed.
China all the way.
I don’t know my country but the government in my country was choosing China before it was cool.
I think so but the goverment …
Nope. Unfortunately, we’d have to cave and choose the US. Also, don’t use BREAKING for something so trivial. I just about shit myself thinking it was something else.
Milei would suck Trumps dicks to his grave so we already chose. I don’t like it either way tbh
Apparently we have no choice.
Costa Rica is very much boxed into the pro US corner no matter what happens so yeah…
Depends on how far the US is willing to go. As you could see with Panamá, China wont bother picking a fight all the way here, and I don’t think any country here is worth the trouble for them. Commertially, we already do more business with China anyway, and if the EU x Mercosur deal comes through we might have our bases somewhat covered, although Im not putting much faith on that last one, the US current behaviour is greatly increassing the chances of that working out. My dream is to get rid of the fucking dollar as the standard currency and figure out a better solution, but thats not hapening in my lifetime if ever.
Given how the US is treating its allies, it would be idiotic to choose the US if forced. Yes, it would cause short term hurt.
Most of the American stuff we buy come from China anyways, so…
All bark, no bite. Brazil has always produced food for both the US and China, as long as the government doesn’t explicitly endorse China’s policies no one will let Trump go mad.
we are the president of bricks this year, we are fine
Short answer is yes, but its questionable if we would even be allowed to make the choice.
We don’t have a choice lmao
What a f bully. Unfortunately we have this other f bully presiding the country.
Today we have more economic relations with China and Asia Pacific than US.
However there are some critical thing we import from US, as Tech, and more importantly: Our military weapons.
But we will survive.
Oh no!! By blood and heritage we have more ties to China than the US.
But, who cares!! Let’s don’t pay attention the orange Karen who the world calls the ugly American.
Did yo see the Donald Trump of SNL?…he is better than the real
Will US buy from us all that is currently buying China, and then more?
25% percent of our exports last year went to, then Brazil with 18%, EU with 14%, and then US with 9%. Who should we pick?
Our economy depends more from China than from US. If they want us to choose side, they should support that election, not have us pay for picking them.
And for the way they are behaving, the choice may end being between US and the rest of the world. They are the ones in the wrong side.
The USA is one of the worst trading partners today led by a crazy clown.
No. They would invade if we broke off relations and only dealt with China. Panama needs a huge international relations policy revolution and success before we can even think about breaking with the USA.
We could but our president won’t lol
We could switch to China, but it wouldn’t be smooth. Not like it matters tho, President Noba juat got reelected, and he, sadly, is very pro-USA.
Hmm well…
Xiaomi phone, Xiaomi monitor, Samsung TV, Nvidia (made in Taiwan) GPU, CPU made in Taiwan too, Buses are BYD, Higer and Yutong. I wonder what would people choose.
But I guess some people will miss McDonalds and KFC or something.
Every country will choose a less aggressive country, that’s the reality, if it’s China, it’s China, if it’s Germany then Germany.
China has long been Latin Americas biggest trading partner (with a few exceptions). The choice will be obvious and, depending on whether bilateral and multilateral trade agreements come through it might not be as brutal as it could be.
Ojalá
Such thing could have pros and cons. Take the whole south america for example. Nearly every country except maybe chile and Argentina would trade with china. If that thing happens every country could get great deals. Cause south america would charge like a extra 5 % to Argentina and chile to get chinese goods and these two could have free or near free trade with US and charge back south america 5% for US goods.
Every single one of these economic measures has a workaround.
Classic Trump creating an uneeded divide
I’m sitting in a city right now that is having it’s metro built by a Chinese company, not an American one. I think that says enough.
No
Chile economy in a nutshell: sell copper to China to buy technology from US.
So if you make us choose, China wins, and we stop buying from USA.
Trump is not playing this card right
Bolivia has already chosen Rusia, Iran, and China. I am not happy with any of this.
I like Milei, but knowing his history, I really hope he doesn’t go ahead and make the monumentally stupid decision to isolate ourselves from China just to please the USA.
Even with his clear pro-Trump stance, though, he has been pragmatic when it comes to dealing with Global Powers.
No. Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.
This decision was made for us in 1898, not much of an option here.
No. We are an American vassal state and have no hope of resisting. Not that I would want to be a Chinese vassal state either.
I mean, yes, and I’m not sure if the U.S really want to ask U.S to choose because I have a feeling we wouldn’t choose them so lol
And for people that think this is related to right wing and might change in the future: One of Bolsonaro largest base are the farmers/agrobusiness, and basically everything from our agro get sent to China. Half of congress if not more, it’s “agro bench”. If you fuck with ruralists in Brazil, you’ll get impeached.
Literally a Bolsonaro Foreign Relations minister (Ernesto Araújo) went down during Bolsonaro gov, because the senate was almost impeaching the minister, because he was anti-china.
China.
Ans fuck the US and orange old man.
It’s a stupid idea no matter how you look at it.
Until the US is able to make and offer everything China makes, the question of choosing US or China is moot.
The choice was made a long time ago.
And while the citizens might want to chose the US, without anything to help with a forceful change of government then China it is.
Bullshit
As a nation? Yes, the US is not THAT big of a partner to us, they are a direct competitor in some things, and manufacturing happens in asia. The biggest issue would be services but if the US started sanctioning companies for doing commerce with those not choosing the US, said companies would leave as it would be a very unprofitable endeavor. That or Trumpette would be taken out of office faster than him going to spray tan his skin
As a country? While the IMF is not the US, the US holds a lot of influence in it and we are one of its greatest debtors. Plus Milei is a rooster-sucker for the tangerine dude even if he gets nothing (well not sure about that… WE dont at least) out of it, and milei has already said before he want no part in [insert propaganda] countries. Though, he renewed the swap, so there is that.
The only thing that the US can do to affect us would be a military operative, be it overtly or covertly like the cia did with latam before. And at that point, if they truly needed *us* that bad, then it would mean the US would be the last falling empire.
The US right is held together as tightly as sushi made with parboiled long rain rice. They, through Rump, have proven to be an unreliable partner, abusive (tariffs) and toxic (like the demands they are making in europe, specially when it comes to EU policies with employees or education). Their market is huge, but it is not the only one. The world can do well without them as buyers. Can they?
I don’t think that this is even true. We don’t need a new Cold War where it’s mandatory to say on which side you are.
Latin American countries must adopt a policy of trading with everyone and be with no one. The only thing that is important is to protect the interest of each latin American country.
Sorry our country is run by nut jobs.
China is our biggest export and import market.
The US threw us into a dictatorship that lasted for 17 years.
Idk man, hard to choose. /s
Being neighbors and with the existing power disparity we probably have the most pressure out of any other country
It’s still easy to choose China barring military invasion
Yes, cuz choosing to give up China is most likely worse for our economies. We’ll just have to link with SEA and Europe more. It’s going to hurt tho.
“To be an enemy to the US is dangerous. To be a friend of the US is fatal.”
I’mma be honest. Argentina would both be unable and unwilling to withstand US pressure, and I’m not sure China is an attractive enough alternative to justify even attempting that risky switch. Too far away, economies not integrated enough. If it were up to me, I’d probably do it, but neither option sounds appealing.
Tis a lose-lose situation. All because Trump is a dumb fuck and China being an authoritarian hellhole.
Besides Mexico it will be easier for all the other Latino countries to stay with China because they’re not Western countries and are integrated into Western institutions for the EU UK Canada Australia Japan Korea Etc these countries have a lot more to lose for jeopardizing the United States as a market and trading partner
Our president travels to the USA to drain trump’s balls every week, and we need the commerce with China, so no