Just now, the United States made the most obscene, shameless and ruthless move against China! Faced with this kind of bottom-line attack, China does not need to be polite!
When everyone saw this news, it must be filled with indignation. It was so shameless and bottomless!
What news ?
The United States announced that starting from October 14, 2025, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will collect port fees on ships owned, operated or built by China in accordance with the "301 Investigation" framework of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), and will be responsible for execution and charging.
This is not an ordinary "add-on tax" so simple, but directly aimed at China's shipping lifeline "precision surgical strike", he even not only targeted ships operated in China, even ships built in China also receive, not only to strike foreign trade, but also to strike China's shipbuilding industry!
How bad is this trick? A 200,000-ton-class freight ship with a single stop-off fee could be as high as $10 million, which is 10 times higher than what the U.S. said at the beginning of the year for each Chinese freight ship with an import fee of $1 million to $1.5 million, directly raising China’s trade costs by 15%, equivalent to direct tariffs of 15%. This is not a “cost increase”, it is a “cost explosion”, China’s manufacturing industry’s general profits are not so high! This is not enough, it will increase year by year, and almost double by 2028.
Frankly speaking, this move was expected by Zhanhao at the beginning of this year! Old comrades should all remember that Zhan Hao analyzed in previous articles that sooner or later the United States will upgrade from "commodity tariffs" to "logistics channel fees", and from "stuck necks" to "broken blood." But I didn't expect this day to come so quickly and so ruthlessly, and the United States directly implemented it after half a year!
What's even more frightening is that if the Li family in Hong Kong really sells 43 ports in 23 countries around the world to the BlackRock consortium in the United States, and then the United States pressures the ports of Italy and other European countries to also sell to the United States, and then the United States uses these ports to charge high fees for Chinese-operated cargo ships and Chinese-made cargo ships, what will happen?! Fortunately, our country has taken action, and the Li family has not been able to sell the port to the BlackRock consortium of the United States, and the United States can only take such measures against China's exports to the United States, which has no impact on China's global trade.
Of course, although Li has failed to sell the port to the U.S. Consortium for the time being, it is not a reason for us to relax because this may not be an isolated event. Although European countries have not yet officially announced to follow U.S. similar port charges, U.S. policies have triggered global shipping market volatility, and some countries are evaluating whether to follow, so this is undoubtedly a challenge for China, and why it is proud to suggest that our country must invest in ports and acquire ports on a global scale! If more countries in the future in port policy "select side stands", China's cargo ships will face higher political costs and operating risks.
The answer is simple: when he finds that the tariff war against China doesn’t work, it rushes, it’s scared, it’s going to go away in a different way!
The data show that in the first half of 2025, China's trade surplus broke $586 billion, although the US trade surplus declined, but the whole year broke $3 trillion, there is no suspicion. The reality is that China's manufacturing not only has not been engaged in the "high wall" of the U.S. and "disconnected", but rather slightly hit the global market - in the first eight months of 2025 China's car exports broke by 4.29 million, of which new energy vehicles rose by 87%; lithium-ion battery exports reached $482.96 billion, up from 25.79%; China's photovoltaic components accounted for more than 80% of the global market share.
The United States itself acknowledges that the trade war “hurt a thousand enemies, loses eight hundred,” but why does it get worse? because it knows that conventional means have been ineffective, only the “over-limit war” can delay China’s rise. port charges, is the “unconventional weapons” it offers after the collapse of the conventional battlefield – not winning, only dragging; not winning, only consuming!
On the surface, it is a trade dispute; in essence, it is the U.S. anxiety response to the rise of the Chinese ocean. data show that in the first half of 2025, shipbuilding completed volume, new order volume and handheld order volume respectively accounted for the world's total of 51.7%, 68.3% and 64.9%, with heavy tonnage stability ranked first in the world, far surpassing South Korea and Japan, while the U.S. shipbuilding market share is less than 1%, the U.S. connected warships are not ready to build, is negotiating with Japan and South Korea to help build military ships.
The shipbuilding and shipping industries are important pillars of global maritime competition. During the Cold War, the United States relied on a strong merchant fleet to achieve global expansion, but now this advantage has gradually lost. China's layout in the global shipping network is also becoming increasingly perfect, which makes the United States feel like a mist on its back and a sore throat. Therefore, the United States stopped pretending, and resorted to even more indiscriminate tricks!
In the face of such a ruthless move, can China still endure it? Can you still be polite? Of course not! When it's time to make a move, do it when it's time to make a move. When it's time to make a move, do it when it's time to make a move, and do it when it's time to make a move, and do it when it's time to make a move. Without ceremony, fuck him in a hurry! Recently, China has even made four heavy punches, all of which hit the sore spot of the United States!
The State Council of China officially revised the International Maritime Regulations on September 29, 2025 to explicitly authorize the transportation department to impose a reciprocal or disproportionate countermeasure on any country’s discriminatory measures against Chinese ships and shipping enterprises.
There may be friends of war who will say that the U.S. will be a better bottom line, in the global scope on the ports operated by us? then we will break the wrist, each other's routes may not be safe, then look at each other's naval strength in the various seas, 0.55 million tons drive more than 1500 kilometers range is not just a number. In the past, China in the South China Sea as much as possible to take into account the overall situation, then it may be uncomfortable, East Asia things may not be able to reach the relevant destination. So, you dare to the United States, China is not vegetarian. This is not a threat, but a legitimate defense under the law. Since you must look more than the fist, who is thick legs, China before wearing clothes, there is no light!
The second punch is on the internationalization of RMB-although there is no authoritative news to confirm that China has completely stopped Australia's non-RMB-denominated iron ore imports, the Australian government says that China has completely stopped. As the strongest ally of the United States, does Australia dare to tear its face with China on this matter? I'm afraid I don't have the courage! As long as the United States dares to completely blockade China, all China's exports may require RMB settlement, and by then the US dollar may not be able to buy enough! China is the world's largest iron ore importer, with an annual import volume of over 1.1 billion tons, accounting for more than 70% of the global seaborne iron ore trade volume. As long as China continues to promote local currency settlement, the monopoly position of the US dollar in the commodity field will be gradually disintegrated. This is not "lifting the table", but "changing the card table"-whoever controls the settlement currency has the pricing power. In the past, China tried not to lift the table for the sake of the markets of the United States and the West. If the United States had to cut off Sino-US trade, then China wouldn't have to take care of it anymore, right? If the table is lifted directly, can the U.S. economy still be supported?
On September 26, local time, China's Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, Geng Xiaoping, in a speech at the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to commemorate and promote the "International Day for the Complete Elimination of Nuclear Weapons" said that the United States should abandon the development and deployment of global missile defense systems, withdraw the "Titfu" rocket system deployed in Asian countries as soon as possible, abandon the "nuclear sharing" and "extended deterrence" arrangements, and withdraw nuclear weapons deployed abroad.
The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia's nuclear submarine cooperation violates the purposes and objectives of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, poses a serious nuclear proliferation risk, stimulates the arms race and undermines peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, and should be immediately terminated.
Will the United States listen to China's advice? Of course not! If the United States does not, China will make the ugly remarks first. Since the United States can deploy medium-range missiles and nuclear weapons at the doorstep of China, why can't China deploy them near the United States? Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela... I'm afraid these countries are all thirsty for nuclear! In some matters, the United States does not take care of China's emotions now. Why should China take care of your emotions?
The fourth punch is on military strength-CCTV exposed a wonderful scene in which China used J-16 fighter jets to lock in one and two US F22 fighter jets last year. The pilot of the J-16 heavy fighter jet of the China Air Force flew backward directly on top of the opposing stealth fighter plane in a close-range battle. The distance between the canopy of the two sides was only 10 to 15 meters. He also locked on the opposing side's two stealth fighters at the same time. What does this mean? This shows that in the vicinity of China, with the support of China's ground radars and early warning aircraft, China's fourth-generation aircraft can defeat the United States 'fifth-generation aircraft! You can do it in one on two! CCTV also specifically mentioned that since then, this fighter plane has never appeared near China and has been withdrawn directly!
You can calculate how many fifth-generation aircraft are there in the United States? There are only more than a hundred F22s left, and it is hard to say how many can fight. There are currently only 900 F35s in the United States, which adds up to thousands of fifth-generation aircraft, but they have to be deployed around the world. At present, the number of fifth-generation aircraft in China is four or five hundred, but China's fourth-generation aircraft has dealt with fifth-generation aircraft not once or twice. This time, a fourth-and-a-half-generation heavy fighter can actually beat two American F22s. I don't know how many F35 fighters can be hit. Don't forget, it's the best dog fighting in America. If it weren't for dog fighting, at the level of more than 8,000 kilometers seen by Chinese radar and at the level of Chinese anti-aircraft missiles, there would be no essential difference between American fighters facing Chinese fighters and Indian fighters facing Pakistani J-10C fighters.
Therefore, it can be said without exaggeration that if the United States of America began the war, China within 2,000 kilometers nearby, can completely hang the U.S. military! as long as the U.S. is thoroughly defeated, the U.S. will completely lose all of East Asia, South Asia, and even the entire Middle East! facing the United States, China has the bottom line! only, that will consume, for China is to consume its own development opportunities, after all, we have aged, must use these years to make a high-speed transformation, plus we also need to do global all-round construction, so that we can take on a larger plate, for us is the most advantageous.
However, now that the United States wants to crush Chinese trade with port charges? this is not ignorance and what? has China already thoroughly dealt with the United States, will you be afraid to take this small move? the United States so dry, in the end will inevitably lead to the US own port throughput further shrinkage, then various other modes of transport will join in, the ultimate result is that the cost of U.S. imports is disorderly high, the U.S. inflation pressure is coming!
The United States wants to use methods including tariff wars and port wars to push up the costs of manufacturing in China, but China has already launched a strategic transformation of "high-quality development"-from "fighting for prices" to "fighting for technology, brands, and ecology." Huawei spends more than 100 billion yuan in R & D a year, and BYD will invest more than 50 billion yuan in R & D in 2025. The technological progress of China companies will soon form more replacements for U.S. high-tech products, including U.S. AI chips! The United States has failed in trying to use technology to block China's neck!
To be frank, when China has the capability and the bottom line with the United States, the US has lost its strategy of hostility to China! The more hysterical the United States is now, the greater the power of China's rebound, the more difficult the United States will be in the end! This game is the United States imposed on China, China has no way back, only victory. Because, for China, the step back is not the sky, but the depths of the mountains; for a moment, it is not the calm of the wind, but the chronic death.
Now, since the United States has chosen to play hard, don't blame China for being rude. In the next step, China will surely steadily attack the United States! And we are going to the core! Work until the United States concedes, until he begs for mercy, and until he no longer dares to use crooked ideas about China!
So, the drama has just begun! Good show, it's yet to come! Clench your fists and stand firm-the era belongs to China, and no one can stop it!