🇧🇷🤡💥🌐 — The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), mocked the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and downplayed her leadership role within the organization.

➡️ In his account of a meeting with the IMF's Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, in May 2023, the leftist leader used a term widely considered sexist to refer to the Bulgarian economist. The president referred to Georgieva in a dismissive tone, calling her a “little woman,” while recalling what she allegedly said about Brazil’s growth prospects.

💬 “I met with a little woman, you know, the president of the IMF, the managing director of the IMF, she didn’t even know me. ‘President Lula, President Lula, you know things are tough for Brazil, Brazil is only going to grow 0.8%,’” he recounted, mimicking Georgieva’s voice and facial expressions. Lula then continued his story, pointing out that, by the end of 2023, Brazil had outperformed expectations and grew by 3.2%.

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🇺🇸 - Trump RAISES tariffs on China to *125%*

- TRUMP PAUSES the new tariffs on every other country for 90 days because they did NOT retaliate, and lowers reciprocal tariff levels

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🇺🇸 President Trump authorizes a 90-day pause on tariffs.

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TRUMP❤️: RAISING TARIFF CHARGED TO CHINA TO 125% EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

TRUMP: MORE THAN 75 COUNTRIES IN CONTACT WITH US TO NEGOTIATE

TRUMP: AUTHORIZED 90 DAY PAUSE, LOWERED RECIPROCAL TARIFF OF 10%

Trade war against China only, for now

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🇺🇸1️⃣2️⃣5️⃣🔣💲❗️❌🇨🇳 — 🇺🇸 President of United States Donald J. Trump on 🌐

"Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the USTR, to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to Trade, Trade Barriers, Tariffs, Currency Manipulation, and Non Monetary Tariffs, and that these Countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

#Geoeconomics #WWT

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🇺🇸🤝🇵🇦 — US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth from Panama canal:

"We'll be signing...a joint declaration with the minister of canal affairs on the security & operation of the Panama Canal, which is a framework for U.S. warships & auxiliary ships to sail first & free through the Panama Canal."

🇨🇦🤝🇵🇦 Minera Panamá notifies the Ministry of Commerce that it has suspended arbitration proceedings for $20 billion against the Panamanian government.

https://x.com/moltojulio/status/1910090605977366879

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🇺🇸🤝🇵🇦 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth today announced an expanded partnership between the U.S. and Panama to secure the Panama Canal in order to counter "China's maligned influence" in the region.

"The era of capitulating to coercion by the communist Chinese is over," Hegseth said while delivering prepared remarks earlier in the day.

"[China's] growing and adversarial control of strategic land and critical infrastructure in this hemisphere cannot and will not stand," he added.

Hegseth, who has been in Panama City for a three-day security conference with the host nation, later made the expanded partnership announcement during a joint press conference with Panamanian Public Security Minister Frank Abrego.

"The Panama Canal is key terrain that must be secured by Panama, with America, and not China," Hegseth said.

He added that, just prior to the news conference, the U.S. and Panama signed a memorandum of understanding related to cooperative security activities in the region and that the signing of an additional declaration related to the security and operation of the Panama Canal would be forthcoming.

That declaration, Hegseth said, would provide a framework for U.S. warships and auxiliary ships to travel "first and free" through the canal.

"These documents reaffirm [the U.S. and Panama's] historic ties and outline how we will deepen our relationship and strengthen bilateral canal security cooperation," Hegseth said.

Full document here below 👇👇👇

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4150935/hegseth-says-us-partnering-with-panama-to-secure-canal-deter-china/

https://x.com/canaldepanama/status/1910120747680358667/photo/1

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🇯🇵📞🇺🇸❗️ — According to Fox Business Correspondent Charles Gasparino and top money managers, today’s “90-Day Pause” on the reciprocal tariffs announced last week by U.S. President Trump, was forced by mainly by the Government of Japan and other countries selling bonds overnight causing the bond market to skyrocket, not Communist China.

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