China to Trump: We dont want a trade war but if there is one, youd lose

[jpak]

Source: Washington Post

BEIJING — China’s premier told the United States on Wednesday: We don’t want a trade war with you, but if one breaks out, your companies would bear the brunt.

Yet despite tensions over jobs, currency rates and “security matters,” Li Keqiang told a news conference in Beijing ahead of the first visit by the new U.S. secretary of state that he remained optimistic about the future of China’s relationship with the United States.

“Our hope on the Chinese side is that, no matter what bumps this relationship may run into, it will continue to move forward in a positive direction,” he said.

The two countries share extensive common interests and should “sit down to talk to each other” to build trust and narrow differences, Li told journalists at the end of China’s annual parliamentary session. He added that diplomats were working toward a face-to-face meeting between President Xi Jinping and President Trump.

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[pangaia]

1. ".... a face-to-face meeting between President Xi Jinping and President Trump. "

When that happens, fuckwad is dead meat...and so are we...

[Kimchijeon]

7. Sheesh yeah pretty much

that won't end well.

[Vinca]

2. By "your" companies they probably mean just that - Trump's companies.

Just yesterday I read a story about 50+ tons of Ivanka's merchandise being shippied to the U.S. from China during the speech to Congress when Der Fuhrer said "hire American, buy American."

[DK504]

15. Oh, that is exactly what they mean.

They could revoke all 38 trademarks for his whore houses. huh, the WH? whore house? White House. How will we tell them apart?

[heaven05]

3. per OP title, big time

they hold trillions of our debt.

[FakeNoose]

5. That's why - the Chinese want to collect their dough

If Trump picks a fight (between US and China), they'll lose on default.

[barbtries]

4. what diplomats?

didn't trump get rid of them all?

[Hekate]

12. Pretty much told them all to go home and leave the key under the doormat

[ProudLib72]

6. What happened to tRump's Chinese escort service?

What kind of businessman purchases licenses to sell his brand in China and then threatens a trade war with China?

[HuskyOffset]

11. I'd like to quote someone . . .

. . . whose hairdo is similar to Trump's: Ambassador Londo Mollari.

Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts . . . and only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots fights a war on twelve fronts.

I think that pretty much covers Trump.

[msanthrope]

8. Oh wow...The TPP would have been a bulwark against China....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028791492

[Hekate]

13. Amazing, right? We tried to tell people, but noooooo.

I think Obama left out the herd of unicorns or something.

Things that make me want to

[George II]

9. He'll have to get his ties manufactured in the US.

[turbinetree]

10. What will his brother-n-law Jared have to say about the building sale in Manhattan on 5th Ave?

You know the 500 million one to a communist front group

And let's not forget that Obama couldn't stay at the Waldorf Astoria which is owned by the Chinese, they were afraid that the placed was "bugged" .

And just think about housing and who you are really renting or buying from and buried in the ownership paperwork and who you support


https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/16/chinese-pour-110bn-into-us-real-estate-says-study

[hollowdweller]

14. A trade war will renew the union movement

Once we go back to inflation of consumer goods, you will see workers joining unions to up their wages.