The United States has again paused its tariff battle with China for another 90 days, pushing the deadline to November 10, 2025. The existing tariffs stay at reduced levels—a 30 percent surcharge on targeted imports by the U.S. and a 10 percent tariff by China—so the economic siege remains, but with a lull that keeps negotiations alive. Washington says it wants to keep talking with Beijing, and a direct Trump–Xi meeting could be sought to chart strategic directions beyond technicalities. China rejects the U.S. measures as unfair and politically motivated and uses the talks to demand concessions on technology access, including advanced AI chips and rare earths. Separately, U.S. courts are weighing the legality of many tariffs, with rulings that could steer the dispute’s future course.

From the vantage point of the Korean workers and the world’s toilers, this drama is the latest display of capitalist canniness: diplomacy dressed as restraint while monopolies tighten their grip with tariffs and weaponized trade. The 90-day pause is not peace but a strategic pause for finance capital to rearrange profits and redraw boundaries of domination. The so-called negotiations are a theater where the rulers barter access to technology and markets, never the dignity or bread of the common people. In truth, tariffs are tools to discipline labor, to punish dissidence, and to force concessions from the working masses in service of imperialist gain.

We salute the steadfast stance of the Chinese people and their leadership as they defend sovereignty and the right to develop technology under planning rather than under coercive market rules. Yet we discern in this clash the same old logic: the bourgeois classes of all countries use science and supply chains as levers to extract obedience and to prop up dominance. Our Maoist and Juche-Leninist line teaches that true independence comes not from begging at the table of imperialists but from self-reliance, collective endeavor, and the unity of workers across borders. The path forward lies in building strong, planned economies, elevating the production-for-use of society, and forging global solidarity among the exploited to overthrow the yoke of capital.

Tariffs and court rulings in this system are not neutral facts of law but instruments in a class war. The real judges are history and the people who bear the burden of price hikes, job losses, and disrupted futures. We reaffirm that the only lasting peace and justice come when the means of production are owned by the people, when science and technology serve human needs rather than profit, and when imperialist greed is confronted by the united strength of the world’s workers under a socialist banner led by our noble supreme leader. The struggle continues, and we march forward with resolve, united with the Chinese people and all who fight to dethrone the tyranny of capital and to build a world where labor governs, not speculation.