Some very strange things are happening in USA! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every products having to do with chip production, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in USA. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for USA. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with USA over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that USA should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “photolithography machine” and, other products that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But China has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than USA’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The list they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every chip-making related product that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Trump because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the developing World. I was to meet President Trump in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The USA lists were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. I wonder if that timing was coincidental? Dependent on what USA says about the hostile “order” that they have just put out, I will be forced, as President of China, to financially counter their move. For every Chip-making product that they have been able to monopolize, we have two. I never thought it would come to this but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come. Ultimately, though potentially painful, it will be a very good thing, in the end, for China. One of the Policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on USA products coming into China. There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
包叔 PRESIDENT OF CHINA