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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,646 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 01:02 PM Jul 2020

Trump Dims Hopes for New China Trade Deal

President Trump damped expectations for a promised phase-two trade pact with China on Friday, saying the relationship between the countries has been too badly damaged by the coronavirus pandemic.

“I don’t think about it now,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, where he criticized China’s response to the new coronavirus, which continues to spread rapidly throughout the U.S. “They could have stopped the plague, they could have stopped it, they didn’t stop it.”

A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

When the U.S. and China inked their trade deal in January, the two sides described the pact as a first-phase agreement, to be followed by new negotiations toward a more expansive deal in a second and possibly third phase.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-dims-hopes-for-new-china-trade-deal/ar-BB16AxKt?li=BBnb7Kz

What happened to the art of the deal?

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Trump Dims Hopes for New China Trade Deal (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP
Worst "negotiator" ever. Period JDC Jul 2020 #1
That means, Newest Reality Jul 2020 #2
Phase one was mostly imaginary. I don't understand how any reasonably well-informed person ... dawg Jul 2020 #3
They refused helping him in any way duforsure Jul 2020 #4

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
2. That means,
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 01:34 PM
Jul 2020

That means we continue to pay the tax on products that his trade war put on the backs of consumers and that impacted farmers.

Such a deal! Wow. Now that's negotiating. Just like the crumbling wall, we get to pay for it.

Brilliant!

dawg

(10,620 posts)
3. Phase one was mostly imaginary. I don't understand how any reasonably well-informed person ...
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 01:36 PM
Jul 2020

ever thought a meaningful "phase-two" was possible to begin with.

Maybe Ron Varo still believes we will get one, but he's probably the only one.

duforsure

(11,884 posts)
4. They refused helping him in any way
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 01:42 PM
Jul 2020

And behind his trying to demonize them now. They wouldn't be corrupt for trump so he will be clawing false things against them like he's done to many others before.

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