Rubio Says China Is Winning Trump's Trade War
Source: PoliticalWire
May 22, 2018 at 8:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Twitter:
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Jonathan Swan: Who knows how the chest-bumping over China ends. But for now, President Trumps anti-China advisers are right: The president is buckling on his threats to punish China with fundamental, lasting changes to trade tariffs and rules. The reasons are threefold: North Korea, Steve Mnuchin and a lack of focus internally.
New York Times: Ceaseless infighting and jockeying for influence on the White Houses trade team helped deprive Mr. Trump of a quick victory on his most cherished policy agenda The deep internal divisions carried over into how officials characterized the agreement and muddied the outlook for the next phase of the negotiations between Washington and Beijing.
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Varaddem
(432 posts)China, Russia and Qatar. Should be on the news and in the papers every day with a headline WTF
Nitram
(22,800 posts)NPR just reported that China's "concessions" were merely a promise to buy goods they were already planning to buy. Meanwhile there have been no concessions on intellectual property violations nor on government subsidies to sectors that China wants to develop to world dominance: electric cars, railways, nuclear power plants, solar energy, cloud computing, AI, and others.
Gothmog
(145,231 posts)China is kicking trump's butt in this trade war
duforsure
(11,885 posts)lying politician trying to cover his backside playing both sides thinking he can run again, but he'll never be backed again after he helped them pass their tax scam on us, and he caused millions to pay more for their health care, and millions others to lose their plans they had.