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Looks As If The WLB Did Not Fool China
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 RE: Looks As If The WLB Did Not Fool China
April 9, 2017 at 4:01 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2017 at 4:01 pm by Seraphina.)
I guess they waited to comment until Xi left the US so he wouldn't have to deal with Trump's temper tantrum in person.
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Inuit Proverb  RE: Looks As If The WLB Did Not Fool China
April 9, 2017 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2017 at 6:15 pm by chimp3.)
Trump is a comic book reader conducting international diplomacy with master chess players. They will beat him blindfolded.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
No shit! He is the Gambler Baron of the '80,s, the Reality TV Star of the '90's , and the lying sack of shit of 2017.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
 RE: Looks As If The WLB Did Not Fool China
April 11, 2017 at 11:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2017 at 11:17 am by Crossless2.0.)
Look, any U.S. president is going to have a hard time dealing with China, if for no other reason than because the Chinese leadership operates on a completely different timeline than a president can afford. I'm no fan of authoritarian rule, but it's undeniable that such a rule, if relatively stable, allows the leadership to take the long view of things and to take their time cutting deals. Don't like this or that U.S. administration? Wait 'em out. There will be another one in a few years. This is a brute fact of international diplomacy with which all presidents must contend.
Now couple that with China smelling blood in the water. A president who (a) is in way over his head and (b) is becoming ever weaker domestically is a guy they don't really have to deal with on any significant level -- unless there is an angle to play to their advantage. Trump thinks he's so fucking slick at cutting deals and swaggering into whatever he wants. He's never played at this level. By the time the Chinese, the Russians, and others are finished with him, he's going to look like a street-corner whore who just pulled a train.  
I think there are no significant world leaders who didn't understand what trump was doing and why he was doing it. Only those who were brain dead and the remains of whose brain cells were cremated by also bing Republican could think trump was doing this out of "leadership".
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