🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has canceled his upcoming meeting with Xi Jinping and announced 100% tariffs on Chinese goods starting Nov. 1.
His reason? Beijing just imposed global export controls on rare earths — the materials that power the modern world. 🧵👇
2/ China controls 92% of rare earth refining — metals essential for EVs, semiconductors, fighter jets, & submarines.
Beijing is weaponizing that — sending letters to nations warning it’ll restrict exports on “virtually anything.”
Trump called it “sinister and hostile.” ⚠️
3/ “They’re holding the world captive,” Trump said.
But he’s striking back:
💥 100% tariffs on all Chinese imports starting Nov. 1
💥 New U.S. countermeasures against Chinese trade blackmail
💥 Full economic response to defend U.S. supply chains & sovereignty 🇺🇸
4/ Trump noted the hypocrisy: China depends on U.S. technology — chips, jet engines, biotech seeds, SWIFT systems — yet pretends to hold the upper hand.
“For every element they monopolize,” he said, “we have two.”
America’s economic arsenal is bigger — and Trump’s ready to use it. 🔥
5/ Beijing’s timing was a slap in the face.
On the same day peace broke out in the Middle East, Xi’s regime launched an economic war.
Trump: “Things that were routine are no longer routine. I will financially counter their move.”
That starts November 1st. 💣
6/ For decades, globalists let China dominate the supply chains that power the free world.
Trump is ending that dependence — permanently.
Tariffs. Reshoring. Energy independence. Peace through strength. And rapid development of U.S., Ukrainian, & Greenlandic rare earths.
Why Beijing wants this fight right now is unclear. But it's not a fight they're likely to win.
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