Wow--Chinese -Jingye owned steel plant (blast furnace) in UK making virgin steel may have to be closed due to Trump tariffs.

This is a long thread--scroll up and down. Blast furnaces require very high temperatures and like glass furnaces, can't be closed. My engineer-relative trained in Champaign Urbana told me about a horrific Burmese glass factory, located wrongly in the Irrawaddy Delta. I'll tell you this story some other time. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwy7gw88nq9t

This illustrates the truth of Milton Friendman's Pencil--

There are bilateral trade agreements everywhere--

So Trump's "reciprocal tariiffs" non-theory--is completely BS.

Faulty understanding of how things work.

If the components of a simple seeming thing like a pencil come from somany difft places,think of more complex items??

And it's true all of T's so-called policies are ah yoo chee pan,Burmese-term for rock music--"mad man pooping all over the place."

I propose you use these Burmese terms get into at least American English, like the Hispanic "cohones."

My father would say saik hway zii--goats' balls.

kmk

Burmese New Year--4-13-2025