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TopicSurrender in chief already lifting tariffs on China
s0nicfan
05/20/18 3:09:04 PM
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babyeatermax posted...
s0nicfan posted...
babyeatermax posted...
s0nicfan posted...
Jesus you people are hopeless. Trump threatens tariffs and everyone says he's crazy and stupid. China comes to an agreement to lower trade deficit and trump removes the threatened tariffs and... everyone says he's crazy and stupid. It literally did exactly what he said it would. What the fuck does he need to do for you people to admit that even a single thing he's done actually worked? Jesus.

The fuck are you talking about? We're supposed to praise the guy after this?

Here's what happened:

Trump raised prices on China. China called his bluff, started buying goods from Russia other countries. China called Trump's bluff. His trade gambit failed. The rest of the world is now laughing at how stupid and weak our President is


And you might have had a point, if China didn't actually STATE that they were going to address the trade imbalance.
FLUFFYGERM posted...
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/19/news/china-united-states-trade-announcement/index.html


"In a joint statement on Saturday, the countries said China would "significantly increase" purchases of US goods and services to reduce their trade imbalance. This was a top demand of the Trump administration during two days of trade talks in Washington with Chinese officials."

Maybe you should wait until China follows through on those promises before you start patting Trump on the back. Might be waiting for quite some time, though.


And maybe you should wait until they don't before you start putting the blame on him as well. Right now neither of us are objectively right, but I have statements made by world leaders to back up my claim, and you have...?
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