Pundits are predicting exporters, importers, manufacturers and farmers could all be losers of the brewing tit-for-tat trade war being waged by reality TV star-turned PRESIDENT Donald Trump against China and its cartoon-bear-resembling President Xi Jinping.
The winners so far? Definitely cartoonists or, more specifically, an Apple Daily cartoonist, for an epic front page this morning breaking down the potentially ruinous royal rumble between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies into a single, striking image: Street Fighter.
Epic trade-war front page from Apple Daily pic.twitter.com/8sSzk8IKdQ
— Quentin Webb (@qtwebb) June 20, 2018
Adorning the top of the newspaper, we have the two men portrayed as what appears to be the Capcom video game franchise’s legendary characters: Ryu and Ken, an apt comparison — well at least if Trump’s constant claims of their close friendship are to be believed.
Because — as anyone who just three minutes ago read StreetFighter.wikia’s in-depth biographies of the cartoon fighters would know — the pair are BEST FRIENDS, despite repeatedly knocking each other out round after round.
Assessing the current state-of-play, Apple Daily appears to put the way-too-generously-ripped former real estate developer out in front, with an almost un-depleted life bar.
The powerful-looking Chinese president — who actually looks like that according to his official shirtless portrait released by mainland state media — however, is striking back, with a super punch.
The article discusses potential retaliatory measures to be deployed by China on US goods following President Trump’s latest threat on Monday to impose tariffs on a further $200 billion of Chinese goods.
The latest threat from the White House brings the total value of goods the US has threatened trade restrictions on to US$450 billion, a figure that is nearly equivalent to the total value of goods that China sold to the United States last year, reported the New York Times.
In a more nuanced video accompanying the article online, Apple Daily shows CGI versions of the two leaders shooting laser beams out of their eyes at one another in a coliseum.
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