Schumer: Trump wants to 'make China great again'

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BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 05/14/18 10:28 AM EDT

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) slammed President Trump on Monday, after Trump tweeted that he is working with China’s president to help a Chinese telecommunications company accused of violating sanctions.

“One of the few areas where the president and I agreed, and I was vocally supportive, was his approach towards China,” Schumer said in a statement. “But even here he is backing off, and his policy is now designed to achieve one goal: make China great again.”

Trump has received criticism since writing on Twitter onSunday that he is working with President Xi Jinping to help put Chinese telecommunications maker ZTE “back into business."

The Commerce Department last month barred American companies from selling to the telecommunications firm, claiming ZTE violated U.S. sanctions.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/387564-schumer-trump-wants-to-make-china-great-again

[Gothmog]

1. Trump explains that lifting sanctions-it's just a personal favor for China's president

Link to tweet

[oberliner]

2. World leaders really seem to know how to play him

China is not dumb.