🇺🇸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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🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷❗️ — The US has already started discussing potential targets inside Iran, either for Israel or the U.S., officials say.

Potential targets include Iran’s main nuclear facilities and enrichment sites as well as its ballistic missile- and drone-production facilities.

🇺🇸❌🇨🇳❗️ — US President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on Communist China to 145%, a White House official confirmed to CNBC

The figure reported by Trump yesterday did not include an existing 20% tariff.

The extra 20% is a fentanyl-related tariff that Trump previously imposed on China.

#BREAKING

Another day, another record for GOLD!

🥇📈🚀GOLD spot hit a new All Time High at $3174.8/oz!

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🇩🇪 📊 AfD now the strongest party in Germany, polling at 25% nationwide. CDU + CSU for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic are in second place to a party that is not the Social Democrats. German politics have changed in a very big and historic way.

Migrations from other parties – esp. CDU/CSU – to AfD are sticky. For a time last year, the novel Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) pulled some AfD voters away, but many of those have returned, and others have come too. This is not a temporary blip.

German politics are different now, and they will stay different whatever happens – whether the AfD are banned or not, however long the firewall persists. (IMHO ban proceedings become more likely but their success less likely, the stronger AfD get).

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🇺🇸🇾🇪 CENTCOM on X: The United States will not tolerate any country or commercial entity providing support to foreign terrorist organizations, such as the Houthis, including offloading ships and provisioning oil at Houthi-controlled ports. Such actions risk violating U.S. law.

📝 Carolina Lion: The ships docking in Yemen tend to be Russian, Chinese and Iranian. Make of that what you will.

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🇺🇸🇵🇦 US Defense chief Hegseth says US could ‘revive’ Panama troop deployments

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday floated the idea of US troops returning to Panama to “secure” its strategically vital canal, a suggestion that would face fierce local opposition.

During a visit to Panama, Hegseth suggested that “by invitation” the United States could “revive” military bases or naval air stations and rotate deployments of US troops to an isthmus the United States invaded 35 years ago.

https://insiderpaper.com/us-defense-chief-hegseth-says-us-could-revive-panama-troop-deployments/