Trump doubles down on plan to bring in 600,000 Chinese college students: ‘I know what MAGA wants’ (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 43 points 10 months ago

We’ve had a lot of problems with the French, where we get taxed very unfairly on our technology. You know, they put 25% taxes on American products.

Why would they do that Donald? Why would they put a tax on American products?

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 22 points 10 months ago

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Someone said that after Tiananmen Square the US should have offered every Chinese student in America a green card. 20/20 hindsight, I know.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Well we had Reagan/Bush in 1989, so that was never gonna happen

[-] riskable@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago

WTF kind of back room deal did he make with Xi for this‽ Is Xi going to let him build some hotels in Taiwan after it's conquered or something‽

[-] TomMasz@piefed.social 8 points 10 months ago

600,000 ~~college students~~ intelligence agents.

[-] Guyonthecouc@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

But… isn’t ICE gonna do a nazi about it?

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

L'MAGA, c'est moi

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Deport and import

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