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Robots star in #China AI videos mocking #Trump #tariffs
China's state-run media has taken to the internet w/ AI-generated videos, featuring dancing robots & fraught #consumers, to chide Trump.
They say the US leader's tariffs threaten high #inflation & economic distress for Americans.
#economy #ETTTTS #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tariff-live-updates-stocks-extend-global-selloff-investors-fear-us-2025-04-04/
"'Liberation Day', you promised us the stars. But #tariffs killed our cheap Chinese cars," an automated female voice sings in a video on the website of China's CGTN, a state-run English-language broadcaster. It appears with a shot of a woman at a kitchen table staring at an empty fork. The 2-min, 42-sec clip, was captioned with a warning: "Track is AI-generated. The debt crisis? 100% human-made." [they’re not wrong]
Another video posted on the X page of state-run news agency Xinhua, also generated by AI, shows a robot named TARIFF that chooses to self-destruct rather than follow its creator's orders for high #tariffs that bring "trade wars & unrest".
#China has sharply criticised the #US tariffs, which have triggered the biggest #stockmarket rout since the pandemic, & retaliated on Friday w/import duties & export curbs of its own.
The CGTN video displays images of car factories & humanoid robots dancing in burned-out streets.
"You taxed each truck, you taxed each tire. Midwest burnin' in your dumpster fire," the automated voice sings.
Economists say #consumers are likely to see higher #prices due to the #TradeWar & that the #US #economy could enter a #recession, while some US #trade partners are putting their own levies on American products - effects that #Trump has called a "disturbance". [he’s the disturbance]