中美關稅交鋒背後的真相——藍述在“硅谷自由論壇”的演講（1）

是否中國可以拯救他們的面子? 這是一個非常好的問題 我們不在乎中國能否拯救他們的面子 但中國顯然在乎他們能否拯救他們的面子 好的 首先 有些人 他們會想 我們收集了中國的恐怖分子 我們收集了百分之百 他們也收集了百分之百 為什麼我們都會損失金錢呢? 不 這不是 這不是一種看法 想想 從美國到中國的貨物 和從中國到美國的貨物 是完全不同的東西 對吧 所以 收集貨幣 最底線是 我們正朝著 中國和美國經濟的方向 我們正朝著 我們還想要停止 我們想要停止 說這些事情 這是大腦的方向 我們正朝著 對吧 北京的領導 正在幫助川普 他們不需要回應 川普和 Scott Bazin 以及財政部長 Ruteny 他們都說 Now they say, don't retaliate, we can negotiate, and China is the only country that retaliates, right? I bet tomorrow morning when you wake up, you're going to hear China is going to respond by another 50%. Yeah, because President Trump just added another 50% today, right? So China is going to respond by 50%. I think that's what's going to happen. Why? China, you know what, you know, everywhere Xi Jinping went, he always talked about, one thing he always talked about is common destination of mankind. Let me ask you this, do you want, any of you want your children and grandchildren's lifestyle have a common destination of Xi Jinping? But they want to, you know, China want this, the communist China want this, not Taiwan, okay? Taiwan is a different nation. So Chinese communist leader, they want it. And they want this, they want this image of global leader so badly. So they want to take a lead on retaliation and hope many other countries will follow. That's why they are doing this. No one stands up against America. And they are doing that. They want to show their leadership. So I don't think they're going to back down. So I think they're helping us in this process of decoupling the economy and trade between the United States and China. Which I think is a good thing because the temporary and transitional pain that we have to go through actually will help us stop the bleeding of our economy to China and set our economy and our national security in the right direction. Now, for tariffs. Now, I'm not sure if you know that, you know, that our China policy from Trump first to Biden and to Trump second is continuation. Now, think about this. Let me ask you this. Remember last year in July of 2024, President Biden actually invited, you know, 30 allies of our NATO allies from Europe coming to Washington, D.C. for the 75th summit of NATO. Now, that NATO summit didn't happen in Europe, but in Washington, D.C. Why? Because think about this. We have 30 allies, our NATO allies in Europe. But we have six allies in the Western and Southern Pacific. That's South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand. Think about this. Now, common sense. OK, we are in the, we are in the, we are in the common sense revolution, right? Think about common sense. We have 30 allies in Europe, plus Ukraine, that's 31 countries, that's facing an exhaustive Russia. While we only have six allies in the Western and Southern Pacific facing China, which is nine times economic power of Russia. Now, China's GDP is nine times of Russia. Does that make sense? Ask yourself. If Ukraine is at the doorstep of NATO countries in Europe, then all the six allies in the Western Pacific, they are at our doorstep. You know, if China overtakes Taiwan or invade the Philippines, the next target will be Guam and Hawaii. Now, China is nine times stronger than Russia. Who is supposed to help who? Should we help our NATO countries in Europe or are the NATO countries supposed to help us? And that's the reason and the intent of President Biden, who invited the NATO nations to come to Washington, D.C., while at the same time have all our Asian allies come to the meeting. But except, you know, President Biden, you know, he didn't have a physical avenue to make that job accomplished. You know, those NATO allies, they don't even want to spend money to protect their own security, right? Do you think they're going to spend money to help our Asian allies? Impossible. However, as the time continues to move forward, I think President Trump just find a new way to do whatever President Biden wanted to do but not able to accomplish. Think about tariffs. The money that we collect from our Asian allies, well, we can spend those money to strengthen our military presence in the Western Pacific. But at the same time, the tariffs we collect from our NATO allies, we don't need to spend those money on Europe anymore. We can also spend those money in the Western Pacific. Problem solved. Genius. That's what tariffs is going to do. Give you an example.