Trump thinks US, China could jointly solve world's problems

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press

 Updated 3:40 pm, Thursday, November 9, 2017

BEIJING (AP) — President Donald Trump set aside his blistering rhetoric in favor of friendly overtures to China on Thursday, trying to flatter his hosts into establishing a more balanced trade relationship and doing more to blunt North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

Winding down his two days in Beijing, Trump suggested that if the U.S. and China jointly took on the world's problems, "I believe we can solve almost all of them, and probably all of them."
 
In the name of furthering that relationship, Trump largely shelved his campaign complaints about China, at least in public. He focused on exhorting Beijing to help with North Korea, an effort expected again to take center stage at an international summit in Vietnam on Friday.

The Chinese rolled out a lavish welcome for the American president. Trump returned the kindness, heaping praise on China's Xi Jinping and predicting the two powers would work around entrenched differences.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Trump-Xi-present-united-front-despite-differences-12343776.php

[mpcamb]

1. The way that could happen would start with impeachment.

[sandensea]

2. And I'm sure China agrees - as soon as the U.S. can have a real president again.

That always helps.

[yurbud]

10. DAMN! beat me to it. Trump could help Chinese leaders get better ratings

"Do you have something like professional wrestling here? You do? Watch how those guys talk, and talk just like them. Then be really fucking arrogant and ignorant. It works like a charm, believe me."

[Auggie]

3. Huh? They ARE the world's problems ... (n/t)

[karynnj]

4. They actually did - under Obama, where the US/China deal on climate was a key to getting the Paris

Accord. (The US and various third world countries led by China were part of the problem in prior climate summits. There would not have been a nearly 200 country agreement if the US and China did not join in.) That US/China agreement and the subsequent Paris Accord would not have happened if President Obama did not greenlight Secretary Kerry's desire to get a climate accord.

[Wwcd]

5. Of course he'd say that. Weren't the Trumps just granted a bunch of patents

Early on, in his reign of holee terror as president?

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Am I mistaken or isn't China a totalitarian

Central planning kind of place? Otherwise known as a Communist government? WTF?

Have we been sold down the river for the cost of a few fortune cookies?

[PSPS]

7. See what a little insincere flattery will get you? You're instantly one of trump's "best people!!1"

[msongs]

8. china leads the way on modern technology while trump drives us into the dark ages nt

[mercuryblues]

9. ha

"I, alone can fix it" Donald trump July, 2017