🇺🇸💲❌🇨🇳⚡️ — 🇺🇸 The Epoch Times | US Launches New Trade Probe Into Chinese Legacy Chips | The new investigation could pave the way for the incoming Trump administration to add more tariffs | December 23, 2024:

"The Biden administration announced an 11th-hour probe on Monday into China’s trade practice regarding “legacy” chips that power everything from smart appliances and phones to the electric grid and weapons systems.

The administration has already imposed 50 percent tariffs on semiconductors from China, which are set to take effect on Jan. 1. The new Section 301 probe could pave the way for the incoming Trump administration to add more tariffs on legacy chips or take other measures.

The probe was launched because evidence indicates that the Chinese regime’s attempts to dominate domestic and global chip markets “appear to have and to threaten detrimental impacts on the United States and other economies, undermining the competitiveness of American industry and workers, critical U.S. supply chains, and U.S. economic security,” the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) said in a statement."

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Several prominent X accounts are reporting that their verification badge and monetization has been revoked after criticizing Musk’s pro-mass immigration bent.

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Singleton: With all due respect to Mr. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, they should focus on saving federal dollars for the taxpayers and not immigration policy… I think folks in the Maga world have every right to be angry with Vivek and Elon Musk.

📎 Acyn

Ashley St. Clair on X:

"Please consider what is happening

There was immense backlash against the most influential on this platform for their positions on immigration

48 hours later, the algorithm is updated to deboost those who are blocked by “far more credible” verified users."

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🇩🇪 German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved the Bundestag and set snap elections on February 23rd.

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🇰🇵💀📝 — United States' Pentagon says that North Korean troops are committing suicide rather than being captured by Ukrainian troops in Kursk region

🇸🇰❌🇺🇦 — Slovakia will consider halting electricity supplies to Ukraine if Kyiv stops the transit of Russian gas to the country

🇦🇫❌🇵🇰❗️ — Pro-Taliban media reports that Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Forces, alongside Pakistani Taliban, and Pakistani Army are currently clashing at the Afghan-Pakistani border across the entire Durand sector!

🇨🇳🤝🇧🇫 Burkina Faso’s military received a significant shipment of military equipment from China, including:

▪️ 50 CS/VP14 MRAP vehicles
▪️ 30 VN22 6x6 armored personnel carriers
▪️ 10 CS/VN9 6x6 armored personnel carriers
▪️ 90 Shacman H3000 6x4 trucks
▪️ 45 Shacman H3000S 6x4 tractors

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🇦🇫❌🇵🇰❗️ — Pakistani air defense reportedly shot down an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft over Paktika as the clashes over the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan escalate to levels never seen before!