{"id":6692,"date":"2019-05-11T17:14:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T22:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2022-01-05T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T23:59:32","slug":"china-vows-to-pull-every-chinese-restaurant-if-trump-raises-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/11\/china-vows-to-pull-every-chinese-restaurant-if-trump-raises-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"China Vows To Pull Every Chinese Restaurant If Trump Raises Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, CHINA&#8211; Increasing tensions ahead of Washington talks, China vowed to retaliate against President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff hikes by pulling every single Chinese restaurant within the United States.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s Commerce Ministry promised they will take &#8220;necessary countermeasures&#8221; if Trump&#8217;s increases take effect. A ministry spokesman said they have already started the defensive measures by stopping all exports of fortune cookies into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of frantic Americans have left their homes<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/StagingSite\/index.php\/2016\/05\/25\/china-purchases-checkers-restaurant-in-major-deal\/\"> in search of Chinese food<\/a>, which many people say they can&#8217;t live without.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Christmas, a 39 year old Chinese food fanatic, says he&#8217;s been to five restaurants today and every one of them has turned him away, saying they&#8217;re not allowed to serve Americans until Trump stops all tariff proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t live without General&#8217;s Tso&#8217;s chicken&#8221;, he said in a panic as many pro-Chinese food customers took to the streets in protest of Trump&#8217;s tariffs. Many Twitter users are citing a three year old tweet where <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/StagingSite\/index.php\/2017\/01\/15\/chinese-new-year-changed-to-january-20th-presidential-inauguration-now-called-chinese-donald-trump-presidential-inauguration-new-year-day-2017\/\">Trump praised China and his love for Chinese food.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6694\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6694\" src=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/StagingSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TrumpChineseRestaurant2-min.png\" alt=\"Chinese restaurant at night with blue and red neon sign.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many Chinese restaurants, like the one pictured above, have already started the process of closing up as tariff talks increase.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump threw global Chinese restaurants into turmoil as restaurant owners around the world fear all the restaurant owners in America will set up shop in their country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s more competition for me,&#8221; said Marciano Jose Hernandez, a Chinese restaurant owner in Mexico. &#8220;With Trump&#8217;s new tariff hikes and China&#8217;s ban on America, all these owners will have to open up new restaurants somewhere else, which will make me lose mucho dinero. Thanks, Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Trump raised duties on $250 billion Chinese imports of Make America Great Again hats that he plans on using for his upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In response, imports of Trump&#8217;s <em>The Art of the Deal<\/em> books into China tumbled 69%, but his latest book <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/StagingSite\/index.php\/2016\/06\/17\/donald-trump-my-new-book-is-beautiful\/\"><em>My New Book Is Beautiful<\/em><\/a> remains a best seller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, CHINA&#8211; Increasing tensions ahead of Washington talks, China vowed to retaliate against President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff hikes by pulling every single Chinese restaurant within the United States. China&#8217;s Commerce Ministry promised they will take &#8220;necessary countermeasures&#8221; if Trump&#8217;s increases take effect. A ministry spokesman said they have already started the defensive measures by stopping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[409,411,39,825,65,1113],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-china","tag-chinese-food","tag-donald-trump","tag-make-america-great-again","tag-mexico","tag-rated-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}