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Quixote1818

(28,976 posts)
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 07:22 PM Jun 2018

Newsweek: CHINESE STATE MEDIA SUGGESTS PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A 'FOOL'

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"Following the path of expanding and opening up is China's best response to the trade dispute between China and the United States, and is also the responsibility that major countries should have to the world," said an editorial in Xinhua news agency.

"The wise man builds bridges, the fool builds walls," it commented. "With economic globalization there are no secluded and isolated islands. No country can lightly build fences to stop the tides of history.”

The unflattering words didn't end there, the New York Times noted. Official Communist Party newspaper the People's Daily said Trump's administration had an "obsession with playing the disgraceful role of global economic disruptor."

“From the time of its first trade provocations until now, capricious behavior has become the norm from America. It not only wears away and squanders the country’s reputation, but it also allows China to see more clearly the face of the Trump administration, one that is rude, unreasonable, selfish and headstrong,” an editorial read.

More: http://www.newsweek.com/chinese-state-media-suggests-president-donald-trump-fool-980268

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Newsweek: CHINESE STATE MEDIA SUGGESTS PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A 'FOOL' (Original Post) Quixote1818 Jun 2018 OP
Duh, there they go flattering him again. spanone Jun 2018 #1
That's too kind. neeksgeek Jun 2018 #2
"The Fool builds walls" BigmanPigman Jun 2018 #3
That should be Ivanka's Chinese proverb. leftyladyfrommo Jun 2018 #14
God dammit...I hate it when I hafta agree with the ChiComs. roamer65 Jun 2018 #4
No need to "suggest".. it's there for all the world Cha Jun 2018 #5
The Fool on the hill. lpbk2713 Jun 2018 #6
Xi's right you know! Anon-C Jun 2018 #7
Dammit.. LSFL Jun 2018 #8
Yep. Scurrilous Jun 2018 #9
"With economic globalization there are no secluded and isolated islands" Takket Jun 2018 #10
Problem Is Takket... ProfessorGAC Jun 2018 #15
What I am afraid of is China and the EU starting to synchronize their actions on trade. Blue_true Jun 2018 #11
Really? Crutchez_CuiBono Jun 2018 #12
Suggests? Hassler Jun 2018 #13
Because we're 'murica Bitch! Xolodno Jun 2018 #16

leftyladyfrommo

(18,870 posts)
14. That should be Ivanka's Chinese proverb.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:51 PM
Jun 2018

She mangled the last one so badly.

Here us a real Chinese proverb and it is very timely.

Takket

(21,629 posts)
10. "With economic globalization there are no secluded and isolated islands"
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 07:56 PM
Jun 2018

That's something I've said many times. drumpf ran on a platform of isolation and xenophobia. We live in a global economy now and you just can't expect to compete if you don't even take the field.

Not just economically either... socially, militarily, scientifically.......... quick, name a fortune 500 company that limits its dealings to the USA.......... they don't exist. success depends on participation in the global community, and drumpf is setting us up for spectacular failure.

ProfessorGAC

(65,191 posts)
15. Problem Is Takket...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:54 PM
Jun 2018

...the idiot supporters all long for the good old days, that never really existed.
They actually think that we can "unglobalize" things and everything will be better
There's no reasoning with the willfully ignorant!

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
11. What I am afraid of is China and the EU starting to synchronize their actions on trade.
Mon Jun 18, 2018, 07:58 PM
Jun 2018

China has US oil on it's tariff list. Saudi Arabia and Russia are rushing to fill the Chinese demand, China may even buy oil from Iran.

If China and the EU coordinate to start pricing oil in Euros, the USA could literally be squeezed out of international markets for good. I believe Europe has avoided that move out of difference to us, but with Trump kicking them around, they just may to hell with us and try to work out a deal with China.

Xolodno

(6,401 posts)
16. Because we're 'murica Bitch!
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:12 PM
Jun 2018

So....

China suggests Dump is a fool.

Russia suggests they have Dump dead to rights.

Germany and France suggests that the USA is a country they can't work with anymore.


But yeah..."We're 'murica Bitch!"

An absolute ignorant statement that gives the thinking challenged and prone to emotional impulses the excuse that everything will work out for the better....and yet, it won't.

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