Another flirt. Another tease.
What happened to your manhood, President Meangirl? Which of those rigged witches stole it?
I think China has seen through president Trump as a business leader rather than a US president. China will play the long game using time to gain leverage, but Trump is playing for the short gains to support his 2020 re-election. Both side will sign a trade deal limiting the damages and declaring triumph on each side with a happy ending. This time like before, history will repeat itself that trade war is no good for both sides.
"I could see myself letting them slide for a little while ..."
Yep, because besides being the expert on southern walls and drones, I am the most knowledgeable about international trade and the economy of China .... maybe these negotiators should go back to school with the international security team.
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Chinese economic czar Liu He was accused of showing up to Washington without an agenda or specific action items. Now Trump is talking about delaying the March 2nd deadline.
This doesn't look like a desperate China to me. In fact, Trump knows the remaining $200 billion in tariffs are going to hit consumer goods directly and show up at Walmart and Target. Your toaster oven isn't going to be $9.99 anymore and it's going to hit our working class right in the gut.
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China should agree to let Trump rename the trade agreement to something like the USCHI trade agreement and Trump will sign it in a minute.
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"“At some point, I expect to meet with Xi and make the parts of the deal that the group is unable to make,” Mr. Trump said."
What office worker or sales person hasn't had the blowhard executive fly in at the last minute, have a 1 hour meeting and then claimed credit for 'making the deal work' and 'being the closer'.
Sure, Donny, bring all your 'best words' and your 'really big brain'.
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“At some point, I expect to meet with Xi and make the parts of the deal that the group is unable to make,” Mr. Trump said.
When Trump opens his pie hole, it's Robert Lighthizer who gets shot in the foot. There were 18 days left until the now-irrelevant deadline. Big surprise, Trump wants a deal so bad and from Xi's team - crickets. China decided long ago that they would go the mattresses before losing territory.
But, no need, the Don is going to negotiate an end. I imagine a rising wave of confidence was enjoyed by all at ongoing Chinese New Year celebrations.
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"Art of the Deal" strikes again.... sigh.
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He's on the road. That's when his thinking is at his most disordered.
Can't we just say what's right in front of us? Our President is infirm.
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How is it that Trump gets away with trivializing everything down to a "deal" whether it involves foreign relations, the economy, The Wall (oh please Lord, not The Wall, again), defense, Congress, and on and on? There is always a "deal" lurking somewhere in his deepest recesses ready to rush out and solve all our problems.
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"“I’m happy either way,” he said. “I could live receiving billions and billions of dollars a month from China. China never gave us 10 cents. Now they are paying billions a month for the privilege of coming into the U.S. and honestly taking advantage.” "
The world is laughing at Trump and asks when will the Trump-Kushner crime family & their abettors be convicted & sent to jail. America , you are better than this ………… aren`t you ?
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As usual it is personal with Trump. Laws and respect for others mean nothing. Just whether his instinct tells him to like or not. This is such a medieval style of governing - but perhaps I do the Middle Ages injustice. Actually, this is not proper governance at all. Trumps knows nothing of the "art" of the deal. In fact, he is not a dealer just a shark. Our friends abroad have not only lost respect for Trump (if they had any) but the country has been tainted as well. 2020 is coming. Do the right thing and push him out.
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China now is one of the most important foreign countries that we have to deal with everyday. Economic problems, political problems and military problems are being discussed everyday. I am wondering do we have any Chinese Americans are serving as consultants or resources persons in dealing with our Chinese counterparts? Almost all negotiators from China are able to speak and read English and how about us? We only depend upon from the help of one Chinese interpreter? Because of White House and State Dept they don't trust Chinese Americans so they don't want any Chinese get involved with national security issues? Afraid of Chinese spies? I understand we have almost 6 millions Chinese Americans in our country and many of them with good educations. I have never seen one Asian person participated in any of these meetings. But there are many Asians served in the US military services. Any answers? Trump doesn't trust Chinese? Only Russians? I guess we must have Asian Americans working in CIA and other intelligence agencies. I have never seen a single Chinese American has been assigned as a White House reporter for any news media. Strange, distrust or racial issue?
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So much for holding China's feet to the fire! I suppose The Great Dealmaker who is ignorant of basic economic tenets is realizing that a trade war with China hurts many of his own voters. (Are we tired of all the winning yet? Oh yeah, I forgot: Mexico's gonna pay for it.))
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A new age ?
No
It’s back to don” version of
THE STONEAGE
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Many people are annoyed by the brash and dissonant ways that Mr Trump addresses these problems. The interesting thing I see is that he is addressing many chronic problems that previous administration problems that have either ignored or bypassed. Think - Trade, Border and immigration issues, North Korea. Easy to dislike him but he seems to have some guts.
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Harry m, none of those issues were ignored. Obama imposed tariffs on some products such as solar panels and negotiated the TPP to push China out of markets. Both Bush and Obama got tens of billions for border security and crossings over the southern border are at a 20-year low. Check the stats. As for North Korea the Obama administration used a cyber attack to slow down North Korea's development of a nuclear bomb.
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"Trump Says U.S. May Delay ..." Of course he does. Because this is what he does. When will we learn to just kind of ignore him?
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So Trump's hard-core negotiating skills are: set a deadline, feign progress and then offer to extend the deadline if some arbitrary, unmeasurable deal criteria is reached?
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Trump quote."President Trump said on Tuesday that he would consider delaying a March 2 deadline to reach a trade deal with China, saying the United States might not impose higher tariffs on Chinese goods if talks with Beijing were going well." Translation? Trade wars are not good when you have zero experience dealing with an adversary such as China. He is losing on this one, and looking to put a positive spin on it, as he does with all of his other gaffes.. Wake me when this fool is gone from office.
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Trump has no idea what he is doing here.
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As stated in the article, China isn't paying a dime of the tariffs, US businesses and consumers pay the tariff. Shame on Trump for purposely and repeatedly spreading misinformation to the mass that don't know better. "China is paying us billions!" unfortunately it's just not true.
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As far as I know, that is not quite right @Alan because Chinese exporters will in some cases lower the price to maintain volume of sales, Both Chinese exporters and US consumers and US importers pay the tax
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@Bernie My company manufacturers product in China. The overwhelming majority of all the tariffs are being paid thru higher costs past onto the consumer and/or the american business taking a hit. None of the tariff is being paid by the chinese factories nor the chinese gov't. In some cases a chinese factory may reduce their price a touch to help their customer but in my industry that is not the case, and in other industries it represents a token amount. The tariff burden is being shouldered by the americans. Now it is true that this is putting pressure on the Chinese govt to negotiate, but that is not what Trump is saying. He is saying the chinese are paying billions in tariffs, which simply is not true.
Trade wars are easy to win. I guess China is winning. No surprise there!
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I'm glad to see, in the last paragraph, the truth about who is paying the tariffs: US consumers, and not China.
So very tired of lies, lies and more lies from POTUS Pants on Fire!
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“I’m happy either way,” he said. “I could live receiving billions and billions of dollars a month from China. China never gave us 10 cents.
Well, actually it was a little more than 10 cents, the US exported $187.5 billion to China in 2017, before he started the trade war. That would be around $15 billion a month, which presumably would qualify as "billions and billions". So, happy, right?
I am beginning to suspect that Trump is as bad with numbers as with reading. Which is really scary when he talks about making a one-on-one deal with Xi on the hard stuff. Like his secret talks with Putin?
China is no doubt watching Trump negotiate with Congress over his "Wall...Barrier...Security Measures". They are learning two things:
1) Keep changing definitions until no one remembers what Trump originally told his base he do.
2) Make every offer a little worse than the last one, so he doesn't keep coming back for more, like the lunchroom bully.
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@Look Ahead The US imported $440B from China in 2016, while exporting $120B to China. Clearly an imbalance in trade. Add to that the added complexities and unfair trade practices that a US business must address to do business in China - giving up intellectual property rights, patent rites, etc. Now add to that the tariffs China puts on US imports. Trump is trying to force China to create a more level playing field - and he is using tariffs to do this. It appears to be working - what is your problem, would you leave things the way they are?
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@G G Well I understand he is trying to level the playing field and there are many who claim it is not level. But after reading this story, it seems American corporations are paying billions in tariffs.
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@G G Boston
The Trump unilateral approach has cost US farmers and manufacturers dearly, while the expected benefits will likely accrue equally to other trading partners of China, aka US competitors.
China has recently changed laws so that foreign investors are no longer required to transfer technology.
China has recently relaxed restrictions on foreign investment and financial activity.
And China has reduced all auto tariffs from 25% to 10%, except on US autos, which were raised to 40% in retaliation for our tariffs on them.
Trump threw away the TPP, which the US led, a multilateral tariff reduction that would have given US beef, wheat and other producers access to Japan and other countries. TPP was also designed to exert pressure on China and their expansionist military and economic activities.
There are few things China can buy of consequence from the US other than oil and ag. We already had a dominant position in ag and will probably not recover all of it, at least at the old prices. And oil is a global commodity with stable demand so if we produce more to sell to China, the global price drops.
Trade deficits are not necessarily an issue, especially in intermediate goods that allow US manufacturers to be more globally competitive in finished goods.
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