Sergio D

Trump: Taiwan would be very smart to cool it a little bit. China would be smart to cool it a little bit. They ought to both cool it.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼 Trump confirms he's holding billions in Taiwan weapons sales hostage as a "negotiating chip" with China: "I may do it, I may not do it. It's a very good negotiating chip for us, frankly." Asked if Taiwan should feel more or less secure after Beijing: "Neutral." He said he's "not looking to have somebody go independent because the United States is backing us." That sentence reframes Taiwan's self-governance as something the U.S. is causing rather than something 24 million people chose for themselves. Fox asked directly: "Xi probably liked that you haven't approved the weapons." Trump didn't deny it. He called it leverage. This is Taiwan's security being traded in real time for whatever Trump got in Beijing. China gets a delayed arms sale and a president who calls Taiwan "a place" that shouldn't "go independent." America gets Chinese oil purchases, investment commitments, and help pressuring Iran. The price of the Beijing summit is becoming clearer by the hour...

BREAKING: The Trump administration is quietly signaling something the public still doesn’t fully understand: They’re worried about the bond market. Very worried. Behind the scenes, reports say Trump officials have been: • privately engaging investors • tweaking Treasury issuance strategy • discussing ways to create more demand for U.S. debt • trying to keep long-term yields from spiraling higher Why? Because if Treasury yields keep rising, the entire economic story starts cracking. Higher yields mean: • higher mortgage rates • higher car payments • more expensive business debt • exploding government interest costs • weaker housing and credit markets In other words: The “risk-free” foundation underneath the economy becomes unstable. And here’s the contradiction nobody’s talking about: Publicly, Trump keeps selling tariffs and deficit-heavy policies as economic strength. Privately, his administration appears deeply concerned those same policies are helping drive the bond market stress they’re now trying to contain. That’s the tell. If things were truly under control, they wouldn’t be quietly managing Treasury demand behind the curtain. They wouldn’t be floating regulatory changes so banks absorb more government debt. They wouldn’t be trying to stop long-term yields from blowing out. Because they understand something most Americans don’t yet: If the bond market breaks, stocks are next. And unlike a stock correction, bond stress hits EVERYTHING: • housing • jobs • lending • business investment • government budgets • consumer spending The stock market is the casino people watch on TV. The bond market is the load-bearing wall holding the entire damn building up.