China Reportedly Planning at Least 6 Retaliatory Measures Against US Tariffs

Reports coming out of China claim the China Communist Party (CCP) is planning at least six (6) Retaliatory measures against US Tariffs.

1) Retaliatory Tariff increases on U.S. Agricultural Products including Soybeans and Sorghum.

2) Banning import of U.S. Poultry into China

3) Suspending Sino-U.S. cooperation on Fentanyl-related issues

4) Countermeasures in the Service related Sector

5) Banning the import of US Films into China

6) Investigating the Intellectual Property Benefits of US Companies operating in China

With respect to item #2, importation of Poultry, this is big.  MANY U.S. Chicken suppliers like Tyson and Perdue, have been sending shiploads of whole chickens to China, to be butchered, packaged, and shipped back to the USA for sale.   

The old processing factories that used to perform that work here in the US are likely long gone.   

If China bans the import of Poultry, then all that Chicken CANNOT be processed.   Almost immediate Chicken shortages and outright zero stock for sale, will erupt in Supermarkets all over the USA.

With regard to item #3 above, suspending Fentanyl-related cooperation, this is designed explicitly to KILL AMERICANS through drug addiction deaths.  Outright kill.  (Kind of gives you a lot of insight into what China is __really__ all about.)

With regard to item #6 above, investigating Intellectual property "benefits" of companies operating in China, this seems to speak to a brand new law China enacted just last month.   

China passed a law saying the country can seize all intellectual property rights of companies and their products, in the name of national security and specifically mention it as a tool for Countering Tariffs!

They have codified actual state-theft into law.

The Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, allows for the seizure of intellectual property of those involved in discriminatory measures against China, particularly in cases where foreign governments use Intellectual Property disputes to "contain or suppress the country."

Article 7 of the Regulations specifically allows for the seizure of intellectual property of those that “directly or indirectly participate in the drafting, decision-making, or implementation of the discriminatory restrictive measures in Article 3 of Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law.”

In sum, China has clearly been planning a Trade War with the United States for quite some time.  THe enactment of the "Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law" proves that.

If you and your family eat chicken regularly, go out, buy a slew of it, break down the packages into family-meal-size portions and FREEZE it.   Do it now because once these retaliatory sanctions go into force, the Chicken supply in the United States will plummet to zero within a day or two.  People will panic and grab all of it, leaving you nothing.  Get yours now.

Intellectual property Rights holders should distribute "Updates" to their software which will cause it to shut off in the absence of a monthly update authorization.   If China grabs the software, the lack of authorization updates will cripple the software within a month.