It might as well be, except for the theater of it.

“Given that, at the current tariff level, U.S. exports to China are no longer commercially viable, China will not respond to any further tariff hikes by the U.S. on Chinese goods,” the ministry said.

The U.S’ tactics of weaponizing tariffs have become “a joke,” it said in a statement.

“If the U.S. keeps playing the numbers game of tariffs, China will ignore it,”

There are protests going on everywhere. Corey Booker did his thing. It’s not enough but people know something is going on.

If you don’t hook it up to your network, what’s the problem?