tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:24 am
Firstly, I am not a Republican, give it a rest... finally.
I bought into nothing of the sort. I didn't know if tariffs was the correct method of leveling the trade playing field or not, time would have told. Something was bringing the Chicoms back to the table though.
We've been "at the table" with China for 30 years, as MDLax pointed out. Hashing out these trade complaints----IP theft and currency manipulation, mainly.
I told you why---in detail, in real time----it wouldn't work.
-Trump didn't get a coalition including the EU and PacRim countries together to pressure China to follow IP law (that's the goal, right?). And the reason is, the US and EU doesn't want to start a Cold War to get China to stop IP theft. They just don't care that much. Period.
-China doesn't have elections, and would OBVIOUSLY wait Trump out. What does Xi care if exports to the US dip for a few months?
As for your "spotlight on China"....how is this "the right thing"? What did that accomplish? Be specific.
Trump did his "China is ripping us off" game because it played to his xenophobic base, Tech. It's really not that complicated. It worked in the sense that they, like you, say "Trump stood up to China". That was Trump's
end goal: the headline "Trump Stands up to China". The details, as is always the case with Trump, entirely immaterial to him. He just wants the headline. And he got it.
If you honestly don't understand that after watching Trump operate for the last four years? I don't know what to tell you.....
tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:24 am
This is such classic a fan... to wave his, I'm a genius and you're not flag, after the fact
After the fact?
I told you EXACTLY what would happen three years ago------that Xi would wait Trump out-----and that's exactly what happened. And nope, I'm not saying I'm a genius...I'm saying the opposite: only a partisan would buy Trump's fake Trade War. I told you Xi would wait him out, and you didn't want to hear it. And instead of simply saying "yeah, you were right" and moving the F on, your ego can't handle that, so instead, you lash out and claim that I think I'm a genius.
You think that it takes a genius to figure out that Trump is a con man who doesn't know the first thing about trade, and who's ONLY goal in this mess is the headline "Trump Stands up to China"?
Yeah.....okie-dokie.
tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:24 am
Anyone looking at this objectively and honestly has to ask themselves, just where would our trade situation be with Chania had Covid never happened.
And yet you wonder why I would conclude you're a Republican. You're forgetting that the entire reason I give you (and Old Salt, for that matter) grief is that I saw how you handled a President with a little D by his name for years, with Obama. And not once did you give us this "the dog ate my homework" Covid excuse as to why a policy failed under Obama. Instead? You hammered him.
If Covid changed the calculus with China? Trump is supposed to change course, my man. Not sit in the corner and do nothing. That's how it works.
But you give him a pass. As you always do.
I look forward to your wise, peripatetic patience with Biden. I'm sure you'll tell FoxNation to "be patient" with Biden.
Happy New Year.....