I'm no defender of China, but this seems like common sense. If you shat on my front lawn, I'd expect you clean it up before we talk about modifying our shared fence.
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Unfortunately Trump’s style is to take said dump then demand praise for having you pay to clean it up.
This is the perfect summary.
You can’t negotiate with a narcissistic personality disorder, not when they’ll deny the shit is from their dog even when captured on camera. Either way, they’ll factor in a way for the occurrence of the shit to be your fault and therefore your problem to clean up.
Sure, but now the shit-taker wants a favour from the shit-reciever who is having none of it until the shit is cleaned up. So now we get to watch the shit-taker squirm and writhe while they try to figure out how to untake their shit without looking like the complete idiot that they clearly are.
When trump finally caves and has to kiss Xi’s ass, every newspaper headline better fucking be “the art of the deal”
But the Chinese foreign ministry on said any reports that China and the US were nearing a deal were “fake news”.
How low do you have to fall that even China exposes your fake news.
I’ll be honest, I believe that he thinks he was talking to the Chinese government, but it turns out he was talking to the local Chinese restaurant.
It’s an easy mistake for this administration to make.
Something something Four Seasons.
Good. Someone should negotiate with the Republicans the way that they want to negotiate with everybody else. That is, we'll only talk if we get what we want up front.
Trump has since begun to soften some of the measures, granting exemptions for smartphones, semiconductors and electronics and claiming the US and China were in direct contact “every day”.
On Tuesday, the president said tariffs would come down “substantially” and a deal would be done “pretty quickly”.
But the Chinese foreign ministry on said any reports that China and the US were nearing a deal were “fake news”.
“There have been no consultations or negotiations between China and the United States regarding tariffs, let alone reaching an agreement,” said ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun.
This is classic Trump. Lie about how easy something will be and how great he's making things, all while delivering horse shit and counting on your supporters to be too dumb to listen to what's actually going on.
Sure seems like the “great negotiator” is the one who is having to answer demands
Now Trump has a lever to pull for more insider trading. He will let the economy crumble for a while longer, then tell his friends "now is the time to invest" and then agree to remove all tariffs a few hours later. Then the economy will recover sharply from the insider trading spike and fall again when these vulture capitalists are done.
agree with what you wrote, but don't confuse the economy with the stock market. the economy has been FUCKED for awhile now. never recovered from covid / profit-maximizing inflation tbh
https://www.lisep.org/ does a lot of really good work showing how false official UE, CPI, earnings are.
Stakeholder capitalism had to die to make way for the pump and dump economy.
I don’t like Xi much but this time I want him to feed all the shit to that orange one.
"Hard Negotiator" At work here, people. /s
And we can just give them our best technology too? What a great deal!
China doesn't need the USA's technology anymore as they are absolutely dominant globally in the supermajority of high tech research
It’s “the art of the deal”. Create a big stink, then capitulate. Trump's genius is truly mind boggling.