🇺🇸🇨🇳 Since *Wednesday*:

We have had:

- Universal “reciprocal tariffs”
- A removal back down to 10%
- 50% Chinese tariffs
- 90% Chinese tariffs
- 104% Chinese tariffs
- 125% Chinese tariffs
- 145% Chinese tariffs
- Electronics exempted
- Electronics now potentially back on.

🔗 Spencer Hakimian

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Argentine bonds on Wall Street are skyrocketing by +17.9%. This is due to the end of the exchange rate controls and the agreement with the IMF.

🇺🇸 A United States miliary build up is currently occurring in the Middle East as tensions with Iran rise.

Moving additional cargo, munitions, air defense systems and equipment, USAF activity in the region has soared. Here's a look at what flew and where.

🔗 Faytuks Network

🇺🇸🤝🇸🇻 — US President Donald Trump welcomes Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to the White House

🇸🇻🤝🇺🇸 — El Salvador President Bukele says immigrant from Maryland won't be returned to the U.S.

🇸🇻🤝🇺🇸 — Bukele and Trump discuss about the successful Anti-crime crackdowns by the Salvadoran Government

President Bukele:

“Sometimes they say that we imprisoned thousands, I like to say that we actually liberated millions.”

President Trump:

"Who gave him that line, do you think I can use that?"

🔗 Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom)

🇸🇻🤝🇺🇸 — US President sends greetings to Salvadoran people

Trump:

"I want to just say hello to the people of El Salvador and say they have one hell of a President."

Nayib Bukele:

"We actually turned the 'murder capital of the world' -- into the safest country in the western hemisphere... We liberated millions."


🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸❌🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸 — US President Donald Trump on Ukraine war:

Biden could have stopped it. Zelensky could have stopped it. Putin should have never started it. Everybody is to blame.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷❗️ — When asked about the ongoing US-Iranian negotiations, US President Donald Trump said:

Donald Trump:

"These are radicalized people, and they cannot have a nuclear weapon."

REPORTER:

"Does that include a potential strike on Iranian nuclear facilities?"

TRUMP:

"Of course, it does."

🔗 GeoInsider (@InsiderGeo)

🇨🇳🤝🇻🇳❗️ — Communist China State Media reports that Chinese and Vietnamese regimes will jointly act to "counter US hegemonism" in a detente between the two Market Socialist Regimes following the Trump's Tariffs

On X/Twitter, it said:

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday urged China and Vietnam to jointly oppose hegemonism, unilateralism and protectionism.

Xi made the remarks during his meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh: Xinhua

https://fxtwitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1911799662287458509

🇨🇳🤝🇻🇳 — The Socialist Republix of Vietnam and the People's Republic of China signed 45 agreements during Xi Jinping's visit to the Southeast Asian country, says VTV

The 2 sides agreed to strengthen economic and infrastructural cooperation.

Major agreements on railway connect Vietnam to the China-led Southeast Asian highspeed rail system, together with Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇳 — US President Donald Trump's Trade advisor, Peter Navarro:

Socialist Vietnam is essentially a colony of Communist China.

Vietnam, don't dump shrimp into our markets and put the good people of Louisiana out of work.

🇺🇸⚠️❗️ — 5.1-magnitude earthquake hits near San Diego, California, says USGS

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦❗️ — Ukrainian media reports a new Russian missile strike against Sumy, Northern Ukraine!

🇺🇸🇸🇻❗️🇻🇪🇻🇪 —Donald Trump alongside Nayib Bukele on Venezuela:

“They don’t have a dime, we cut off their oil… they know what they have to do.”

🇰🇿🇺🇿🇰🇬🇹🇲🤝🇪🇺🇨🇾 — Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan have officially recognized Türkiye as an occupying power in Cyprus, endorsing UN Security Council Resolutions 541 and 550, in a major victory for Cyprus & Greece

They took this step following EU’s announcement of €12 billion investment package for Central Asia.

Turkey invaded Cyprus unilaterally in 1974 following intercommunal violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, displacing 200,000 Greek Cypriots

💳Visa Is Joining the Paxos, Robinhood Stablecoin Consortium

Paxos’ Global Dollar Network (USDG) also includes Kraken, Galaxy Digital, Anchorage Digital, Bullish (the owner of CoinDesk) and Nuvei.

Visa is joining the Global Dollar Network (USDG), a stablecoin consortium convened by U.S. regulated digital asset firm Paxos, alongside cryptocurrency and fintech heavyweights like Robinhood, Kraken and Galaxy Digital, according to two people familiar with the plans.

Visa is the first traditional finance incumbent known to be joining USDG, whose initial cohort of members also includes Anchorage Digital, Bullish (the owner of CoinDesk) and Nuvei.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/04/14/visa-is-joining-the-paxos-robinhood-stablecoin-consortium-sources

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🇦🇷🤝💵💰Argentina plans to create an Investment Visa: anyone arriving in the country with a certain amount of money (the amount is not yet clear) could immediately benefit from an Argentine passport.

https://x.com/InMilei/status/1911790324030071156

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https://x.com/saylor/status/1911752108862251160

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