The U.S. recently has imposed tariffs (again) on dozen of countries, primarily for alleged insufficient measure to prevent forced labour imports from China.
Many analysts see the move as a legal workaround for Donald Trump’s broad tariff program, announced on “Liberation Day,” April 2, 2025, which the US Supreme Court struck down in February. It is also noteworthy that Trump’s tariffs over forced labour do not include imports deemed to be critical for the U.S. industry such as rare earth minerals.
If there is forced labour in any supply chain, it needs to be eliminated, of course. But this appears to be a bogus claim for something else. It’s almost hilarious that Chinese propaganda is now using the ‘Western neoliberal’ Trump as a means to criticize the West.
The U.S. recently has imposed tariffs (again) on dozen of countries, primarily for alleged insufficient measure to prevent forced labour imports from China.
Many analysts see the move as a legal workaround for Donald Trump’s broad tariff program, announced on “Liberation Day,” April 2, 2025, which the US Supreme Court struck down in February. It is also noteworthy that Trump’s tariffs over forced labour do not include imports deemed to be critical for the U.S. industry such as rare earth minerals.
If there is forced labour in any supply chain, it needs to be eliminated, of course. But this appears to be a bogus claim for something else. It’s almost hilarious that Chinese propaganda is now using the ‘Western neoliberal’ Trump as a means to criticize the West.
Only we are allowed to force children to work! Well, unless you make something our military needs to bomb freeloading children that don’t work.