Why This US-China Truce Is Just Round One

May 12, 2025

I’ve sat across from tough negotiators in my life. Bankers. Bureaucrats. Billionaires.

But no one plays the long game like China.

  • Don’t be fooled by the handshake — this tariff “deal” is a 90-day business maneuver, not a long-term fix.

  • China still holds the cards — rare earths, fentanyl, and trade deficits remain unresolved.

  • Trump is setting the stage — for the next round of high-stakes negotiations, and if you're smart, you'll position yourself now.

  • White House documents reveal Trump is betting big on a completely under-the-radar resource.

Today, Washington and Beijing hit pause on the tariff war. A 90-day ceasefire. Just long enough to smile for the cameras… and reload behind the scenes.

They say they’re slashing tariffs. From 145% to 30% on Chinese goods. From 125% to 10% on U.S. exports. Sounds great, right?

But here’s what they’re not saying.

This is not a peace treaty. It’s a business deal. And in deals — like Trump and I wrote in Why We Want You to Be Rich and Midas Touch — you either know what’s going on… or you’re the one getting played.

Trump once wrote, The Art of the Deal is about leverage. And this move? It's all leverage. Trump tees it up with an 80% tariff tweet, then lets his team “negotiate” it down to 30%. Now both sides walk away calling it a win.

Markets cheered. Oil jumped. The S&P 500 bounced. And somewhere, a few billionaires popped champagne.

But what does this mean for you?

It means the game is still rigged. It means China’s rare earth chokehold is only temporarily relaxed. It means fentanyl negotiations aren’t finished — they’re just put on a three-month clock.

I’ve seen this playbook before. I saw it when China broke its promises from the 2020 Phase One deal. I saw it when America lost its edge to cheap money and cheaper imports.

And I’ll tell you this:

If you don’t own real assets, if you don’t understand cash flow, if you don’t protect yourself from financial warfare — then you’re already losing.

Trump’s using his second term to realign the board. You better start playing like the rich do. Because they’re already moving.

Kiyosaki Uncensored

P.S. While everyone’s distracted by gold and silver… my friend Porter Stansberry just uncovered something even bigger.

According to internal White House documents, Trump is quietly backing a completely under-the-radar resource — one that’s not a rare earth, not uranium, and not anything you’re hearing about on CNBC.

Yet it’s already minting 1,600 new millionaires every day.

I trust Porter. And if what he’s saying is true, this could be one of the greatest wealth plays of Trump’s second term.

Before Wall Street wakes up to it.

While the whole world is piling into gold as a hedge…

White House documents reveal Trump is betting big on a completely under-the-radar resource.

It’s not silver… Or any kind of rare earth metal… Or anything to do with nuclear energy…

Yet this little-known resource is minting 1,600 millionaires every single day…

And investors have a rare opportunity to take advantage before everyone else catches on.