While the$ Chinese are still celebrating the New Year, Trump announces a big news: Japan is about to be the scapegoat. This is really not an exaggeration. Trump's bamboo pole is truly striking hard. But Trump is very happy. On the afternoon of February 17, he announced to the world on his social media: The huge trade agreement we reached with Japan has officially started! Below is a long passage, mixed with capitalized English and Trump's emotional exclamations. After a glance, the general meaning of Trump's tweet is as follows.
1. Japan's promised $550 billion investment in the U.S. has officially started, with Japan providing the first batch of funds. Well, any seemingly voluntary payment has an invisible hand adjusting the balance behind it.
2. Trump has designated three projects: a liquefied natural gas receiving station in Texas, a gas power plant in Ohio, and a critical mineral facility in Georgia. Why these three? I will explain below.
3. The Ohio project, Trump claims, is "the largest factory in history." Why Ohio? Because Trump has won elections here three times. In the$ game of power, the checks from allies are always cashed first, even if that money does not come from their own pockets.
4. The Texas liquefied natural gas project will help the U.S. export. In Trump's words, it will "further consolidate our energy dominance." Trump has a special preference for traditional energy.
5. The$USDC Georgia project is related to rare earths. I saw some analysis stating that "this factory will directly challenge China's 90% monopoly in rare earth processing," while Trump claims it will "end our $USDC foolish dependence on foreign resources." Ironically, the way to end one dependency often comes at the cost of another deeper