On October 15, local time, the U.S. federal government "stop" entered its 15th day, and a U.S. federal judge issued a temporary restrictive order temporarily prohibiting the Trump administration from dismissing federal employees during the federal government "stop".

On the same day, U.S. Federal District District Court Judge Susan Evelyn Elston supported a trade union organization in a ruling to prosecute the U.S. government. Elston noted that preliminary evidence suggested that the White House Budget Office appeared to have "used the disruption of government spending and functions" and "naturally thought that all rules were no longer applicable, that the law was no longer effective on them, and that they could impose their own structure."

On October 15, local time, the US federal government "stopped" into its 15th day.

A female US judge ruthlessly criticizes the White House for its actions

Trump Again Threatens to Cut ¡®Democratic Project¡¯

Ilston, appointed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, said rudely at the hearing that the Trump administration's actions are full of "political factors that permeate it." She argued that the White House plan was "a microcosm of hasty, arbitrary and capricious decision-making" and that the "human cost" of mass layoffs was intolerable.

According to the ruling, at least 30 U.S. federal agencies will no longer be allowed to issue new dismissal notifications to trade union members and will have to suspend the implementation of already issued notifications.

Just before the court intervened, White House Office of Management and Budget Director Walter said the layoffs would continue. He revealed that more than 4100 federal employees had received termination notices since last week and said it was "just a snapshot, I think the number will be much higher, and we could end up exceeding 10,000."

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Walter

Walter stressed that the administration will "continue to push forward these reductions (RIF, the official term for government layoffs) throughout the shutdown, because we believe it is important to stay on the offensive for American taxpayers."

U.S. President Trump again threatened to cut down his so-called ¡°Democratic Project¡± shortly after the ruling was announced.

Reducing mail errors, HR is responsible for dismissal and dismissal.

The judge examines the disorder.

Analysts believe that the legal and political confrontation is backed by a long-standing dispute between the two parties.The White House seems to be using the shutdown as a tool to restore the federal government and cut down its unhappy sector.

House Democratic leader Hachim Jeffries said: ¡°We believe these redundancies are illegal, violate the law, and will be overthrown by Congress or courts.¡±

It is worth noting that the chaos in the dismissal process has also been one of the grounds for the judge¡¯s ruling. The report mentions that the judges have pointed to recent ¡°chaos situations,¡± such as: some dismissal notifications were sent to government mailboxes that employees couldn¡¯t view during the shutdown; some employees were mistakenly dismissed; and even human resources employees were temporarily recalled to deal with dismissal matters and eventually ordered to dismiss themselves.

Currently, the U.S. Department of Justice declined to comment on the ruling. Analysts predict that they may request the Court of Appeal to intervene urgently at any time in order to continue the layoffs while the case is heard.

Everett Kelly, the national chairman of the U.S. Federation of Government Employees, said in a statement that they were ¡°rejoiced with the court¡¯s ruling that prevented these illegal dismissals.¡±

Congress disputes on budget and funding

Red Star News reporter Deng Shuyi

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Extended reading

Even the Americans themselves say that Trump has become a "tariff terrorist"

The week started with chaos. US President Donald Trump has shocked global markets by announcing a 100% tariff on all Chinese imports. He accused Beijing of taking "highly hostile" actions as China restricted exports of rare earth materials vital to U.S. industry.

The move looks like a revenge-an instinctive counterattack from a president who has long been obsessed with tariffs. The market reacted immediately, and the Dow Jones index plummeted, wiping nearly $2 trillion in market value in just one day. Investors are worried that a full-scale trade war is about to make a comeback.

In less than 24 hours, Trump calmed his mouth and wrote on Truth Social: ¡°Don¡¯t worry about China, everything will be fine! China doesn¡¯t want to fall into depression, and I do.¡±

The picture shows Trump's data map

Respond to changes with constant changes

As Washington's rhetoric became increasingly fierce, Beijing remained surprisingly calm. China's Ministry of Commerce issued a brief statement warning: "Frequent threats with high tariffs are not the right way to get along with China," and reiterated that regarding a trade war,"China is unwilling to fight, but it is not afraid to fight."

Since then, Beijing has remained almost silent¡ªno fierce speeches, no dramatic retaliation. Even on the net, after the initial ethnic sentiment erupted, public opinion has quickly settled down. The tone of the entire Chinese media can be summarized in an old saying:

"Respond to ever-changing with constant change"-Respond to ever-changing with stability.

This sentence accurately sums up the current mentality of China: restraint, patience, and confidence in the ultimate stability of the situation.

Trump's new round of tariff action is a continuation of the story accumulated over the years. When he returns to the White House in 2025, markets have long anticipated the outcome-tariffs. Within his first hours in office, Trump rekindled the defining economic nationalism of his first term-only this time, on a larger scale and with broader goals.

After the 2020 Phase One Agreement, the US-China trade war appeared to have slowed down. Tariffs remained, but upgrading stopped. President Biden¡¯s term became mild, but competition deepened. Biden retained most of Trump¡¯s tariffs, while focusing on industrial policy cooperation with the alliance ¨C introducing the Chip and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and strengthening coordination with Europe and Japan.

China, on the other hand, has doubled its push for autonomy¡ªexpanding semiconductor projects, electric car manufacturing and renewable energy supply chains. From a Chinese perspective, it was Trump who forced China to complete this transformation in his first term. As early as Trump initially introduced tariffs and product restrictions on China in 2018, China clearly recognized the vulnerability of the global supply chain to U.S. pressure. For a decade since, China has continued to push for a comprehensive self-sufficiency strategy ¡ª from chips, batteries to agriculture and shipping ¡ª to ensure that it will be more capable of dealing with a trade war in 2025 than ever before. Beijing has learned from that shock: to consolidate domestic strength and prevent future trade wars from shaking the economy.

In April 2025, the first fierce head-on confrontation broke out. Trump launched the so-called "reciprocal tariff war." In just a few days, China and the United States entered a crazy round of exchanges. Tariff levels soared to historical highs, and U.S. stocks plummeted. When many countries around the world succumbed to U.S. pressure, China's firm stance won applause from countries in the global south, including Brazil and India. A China cartoon titled "Don't Kneel" became popular on the Internet, arousing strong patriotic sentiments. After multiple rounds of intense negotiations from Geneva and London to Stockholm and Madrid, both sides called for calm.

From truce to escalation

The market once believed that a ceasefire was coming, but the silence that followed was in fact just a new time of countdown.

By late August, Washington expanded export controls against China technology and shipping companies, accusing them of helping to circumvent semiconductor export restrictions and supporting "dual-use" supply chains. Soon after, Trump's advisory team proposed the idea of banning China civil aircraft from flying over U.S. airspace, which received public support from the president. In Beijing, these moves are seen as naked provocations-and China's response is low-key and precise.

By mid-September, China quietly suspended new U.S. soybean purchases, calling the move a "market adjustment". In fact, this is the first measured counter-action. Futures prices fell rapidly, and storage facilities in the U.S. Midwest began to fill up. Washington quickly understood this political signal: by cracking down on agriculture, the pillar industry of Trump's election fundamentals, Beijing showed that it could fight back precisely without escalating confrontation.

A few weeks later, China¡¯s port administration began reviewing customs procedures for shipping companies related to the United States to delay shipments for ¡°technical reasons.¡± At the same time, according to the 301 Investigation Report released by the U.S. Trade Representative¡¯s Office (USTR) on April 17, the United States announced that it would levy additional port service fees from October 14 on ships owned or operated by Chinese companies, hanging Chinese flag or built in China, on the grounds of ¡°unfair competition in China¡¯s shipping, logistics and shipbuilding industries.¡±

U.S. Launches ¡°301 Inquiry¡± on China¡¯s Maritime, Logistics and Shipbuilding Industry

From soybeans to shipping to aviation-every step of friction has deepened distrust, ripped apart fragile balances and set the stage for the tariff shock in October.

The countdown reaches its climax on October 10, 2025. Trump announced a comprehensive 100% tariff on all China imports, which is scheduled to take effect on November 1. The new measure covers not only rare earths and strategic minerals, but also automobiles, electronics, green technology components and medical equipment-covering almost the entire scope of bilateral trade.

Trump described it as a ¡°defensive measure¡± against China¡¯s ¡°economic aggression¡± and accused Beijing of arming rare-earth export controls that are critical to U.S. defense and industry.

A statement from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce noted that ¡°the threat of high tariffs is not the right way to deal with China¡± and added that if the United States ¡°insists on the wrong path,¡± China will ¡°take resolute measures to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.¡±

Markets are turbulent again. Major European stock indexes slipped nearly 1%, while Bitcoin rebounded after a plunge as Beijing chose not to retaliate. At present, China has chosen calmness rather than confrontation-believing that as time goes by, economic laws will eventually return the situation to its own side.

¡°Tariff terrorists¡±

Donald Trump's second term has always been defined by a keyword-upgrade. As American commentators put it, he has become a "tariff terrorist": exploiting the threat of economic destruction not for negotiation, but for show.

Since his re-election, Trump has turned tariffs into both a weapon and a stage tool-using trade to suppress China. This catered to his fundamentals, but behind the performance lay a profound flaw: the United States has lost the industrial base that underpins a real trade war.

This imbalance is most evident in the field of rare earth ¨C it is the pillar of modern defense, energy and technology. China currently controls 70% to 80% of the world¡¯s rare earth refining capacity, thanks to decades of national investment since Deng Xiaoping proposed ¡°The Middle East has oil, China has rare earth.¡± In contrast, the United States lacks neither sufficient facilities nor a price advantage to compete with China. Its only important mine ¨C the California Mountain Pass ¨C still ships most of the mine to China. Even with billions of dollars in subsidies, it takes years to rebuild a complete rare earth industrial system, and there is clearly no political will.

Thus, Trump¡¯s tariffs reveal a fundamental contradiction: He tries to punish precisely the countries that the U.S. relies heavily on in the military and technology fields.

While Trump¡¯s threat rebounds in the global markets, China remains steady as a rock. The government¡¯s silence is not weakness, but confidence ¨C a sign that Beijing knows it can fully wait.Economic nationalism may win applause in Washington, but China¡¯s message is clear:

"Respond to changes with no change."