Trump to meet with top Chinese official as trade talks reach critical stage
Source: Washington Post
Top White House officials met with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Thursday as President Trump signaled that a trade agreement may be close behind, buoying U.S. stock markets after a chaotic 12 hours.
The highly anticipated trade talks have spawned a rush of conflicting reports about whether they would spur progress or be cut short. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped roughly 150 points within minutes of Thursdays open, after Dow futures tumbled as much as 300 points overnight. He met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Thursday morning.
The talks appeared to be in jeopardy after The South China Morning Post reported that little had come from deputy-level talks earlier in the week, and that higher-level talks involving Hehad been reduced to Thursday only.
But stocks rebounded after the White House said it was not aware of any schedule changes. A senior administration official told CNBC that Hewas still slated to leave Washington on Friday evening after two days of deliberations.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/10/trump-meet-with-top-chinese-official-trade-talks-reach-critical-stage/
More manipulation.
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By Washington Post Staff
Oct. 10, 2019 at 10:19 a.m. EDT
The president left open the possibility that the United States and China might finally resolve some of their trade differences, but he also suggested he might walk away from a deal once again. His comments moved the stock market higher.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/10/10/trump-says-he-will-meet-with-chinas-vice-premier-on-friday-amid-new-optimism-in-trade-talks/
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)I'd bet on Trump screwing it up. Again.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)I can't really interpret that as anything but an attempt to try to make himself look better to his base.
Oh, I made a huge mess here, but I didn't make a huge mess here because I fixed it. Something to that effect. And the same old, I could walk away, stable genius remark, like that is all there is to it; either/or, black and white.
He really has to end the tariffs, but if he did, it's got to look different than it is.
It is bullshit city.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)easing tariff charges.
Later, as MF45 goes for hot PR right before his election; as he trots out relieved farmers who once "took one for the team" now standing proudly with their strong man, the fine print of this deal will be obscured until later.
My bet is that American surveillance is being outsourced, because MF45 wants globalist corporate alliances, not democratic Western alliances, and he'll try to drag Western trading partners with him, or if they resist, just become an economic partner in the Big Eurasian push to dominate the planet.
BumRushDaShow
(129,441 posts)ancianita
(36,133 posts)hostile foreign power. This globalist, with his lackey, Barr, wants back doors built everywhere while Barr fights Zuckerberg's plan for ene-to-end FB encryption.
AGAIN for the 2020 election. Now instead of Russia, it will be China with free rein.
He's got to be stopped. Or, once the deal is cut and lines open, tech security will be in for either a war or a "deal."
Apple's just given up its app access for Hong Kong resisters to the Chinese government. I'm sure that Apple's caving, thus vulnerability to appropriation by China, will be part of their discussion.
Win-win for China and globalist dictator, MF45.
We need to remove this bastard before he can fuck with our Internet any more than he and Russia already have.
BumRushDaShow
(129,441 posts)(from our taxpayer money) whoever is willing to do it.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,441 posts)Firestorm49
(4,037 posts)ancianita
(36,133 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)By Jim Sciutto, Gloria Borger and Jeremy Diamon
Updated 9:39 AM ET, Fri October 4, 2019
(CNN) -- During a private phone call in June, President Donald Trump promised Chinese President Xi Jinping that the US would remain quiet on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong while trade talks continued, two sources familiar with the call tell CNN.
The remarkable pledge to the Chinese leader is a dramatic departure from decades of US support for human rights in China and shows just how eager Trump is to strike a deal with Beijing as the trade war weighs on the US economy.
And like other calls with the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Saudi Arabia, records of Trump's call with Xi were moved to a highly-classified, codeword-protected system, greatly limiting the number of administration officials who were aware of the conversation.
Trump's commitment to China had immediate and far-reaching effects throughout the US government as the President's message was sent far and wide.
In June, the State Department told then-US general counsel in Hong Kong, Kurt Tong, to cancel a planned speech on the protests in Washington because the President had promised Xi no one from the administration would talk about the issue.
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CNN's Zachary Cohen contributed to this report.
This is very very gross, but I'm gripped by the suspicion that we do it in bipartisan fashion all the time: ignore our nominal values to preserve the relationship.
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Scoop: Trump promised Xi US silence on Hong Kong democracy protests as trade talks stalled - with my colleagues @GloriaBorger @JDiamond1
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Nancy Pelosi, minutes ago: What did Trump promise China in exchange for interfering in our election?
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Previously at DU: Suckers!
Meanwhile HK protestors are singing the Star Spangled Banner
OK, who is going to tell them?
Protesters in Hong Kong waving the American flag and singing the American National anthem as they advocate for democracy. Wow!
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ancianita
(36,133 posts)know that we think money over country is wrong.
Another great pity is that this CiC will put OUR military in service of China's geopolitical goals. Just because he doesn't say it, doesn't mean the Joint Chiefs won't see it coming.