• Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 months ago

    President Joe Biden is set to announce new China tariffs as soon as next week targeting strategic sectors including electric vehicles, solar panels and steel.

    So, are Teslas manufactured in Elon’s Shanghai plant also subject to the tariffs? If so, ouch.

    Also, wtf is with the English usage? “China medical supplies”? “China” is a noun, not an adjective. I mean, I think an actual Chinese person with a couple years of HS English study would have gotten that correct…

    • CaptObvious
      48·
      7 months ago

      English allows almost any noun in the language to be used as an adjective in exactly this way. This usage is completely grammatical.

      • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 months ago

        Fine, but not when there’s already an established common usage. If I go around saying America army instead of American army, that would not be proper.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
    163·
    7 months ago

    When american companies gutted american manufacturing to outsource those jobs to china, they did nothing to stop it. Apparently there was nothing wrong with any of what china does when it benefits american companies.

    But now china has their own companies, now the profits from chinese business will stay in china, so they do a trade war.

    This trade war with china is entirely driven by corruption and racism.