🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump just visited a very different China from the one he flew into in 2017.$TRUMP

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Back then he arrived as the dominant economic power, the guy holding the tariff gun, and Beijing was on the back foot. That dynamic is genuinely gone now and what happened over the past two years is kind of remarkable when you actually look at it.$DOGS

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Trump hit China with tariffs that went as high as 145%. Goldman Sachs was pencilling in worst case scenarios. Everyone expected Beijing to buckle. Instead China posted 5% growth in 2025, hit a record trade surplus of over $1 trillion, and pivoted its exports so aggressively to the Global South that its share of world exports barely moved. Goods exports to the U.S. are now just 2 to 3% of China's