Global Trade Tensions Boil Over at Staid W.T.O. Forum (America vs China)

The New York Slimes ^ | December 19, 2018 | Jack Ewing

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Frankfurt — The Americans accused the Chinese of being modern-day mercantilists who steal intellectual property. The Europeans accused the Americans of provoking a crisis in the world trading system, threatening the global economy.

And the Chinese invoked Spider-Man. Unlike Spidey, the Chinese emissary said, America is not using its superpowers with great responsibility.

The trash-talking by otherwise restrained diplomats took place at a normally dull occasion: a review of American trade policies at the World Trade Organization in Geneva.

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China needs to back down. The US needs to support the US once again.

Stand up for America, President Trump.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/business/wto-global-trade-tensions.amp.html

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https://census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

(Our current, all-time record high trade deficit with China)

Biggest in all history, between any two countries.

Ever.

And this year it is getting much, much worse. Right now.

Mr. President, this completely unacceptable.

In my opinion.

[Enlightened1]

I bet China has the Foreign Private Bank also known as the Federal Reserve that is not Federal nor has the Reserves. This is why they are against transparency and any audit. They have not had 1 audit in its 104 year history.

Anyway, I bet China has them bought off. Hence, why we are seeing the interest rate hikes. It is a way from China to sabotage our economy.

[familyop]

Give us a little more time to build family fallout shelters. ;-)

[Proud_texan]

That may very well be true but I would submit that if, at this point, the American economy can't handle a rate hike from 1.75% to 2.00% we have a bigger problem. We should be able to eat 25 basis points and never even think about it.

Unless the entire American economy can only operate in an environment of free government money.

In which case we have much larger problem.

[central_va]

Give us a little more time to build family fallout shelters. ;-)

That is ridiculous.

[BarbM]

The Europeans accused the Americans of provoking a crisis in the world trading system, threatening the global economy.________________

Europe: Let’s just get along. Surrender.
President Trump: We are tired of being screwed. MAGA

[DownInFlames]

Thanks Clinton for giving China most favorable trading status.

[familyop]

Go ahead, and peck away. In my opinion, there’s something really weird about the anti-Trump comments here over the past few days.

To everyone:

Those comments are ignoring the fact that a few nations have implied or specified many threats against the USA to perpetuate their mercantilism and communist expansionism, and that economic and political globalists are hysterical in their attempts to threaten the President and obstruct the Administration’s work. Congress is also obstructing, in part, because voters were too lazy and defeatist to get the vote out.

President Trump cannot fix the trade imbalance by himself against an unfriendly Congress and its plutocrat, globalist benefactors. He cannot fix the migration problems by himself against an adversarial Congress and its plutocrat globalist benefactors. President Trump cannot fix the trade imbalance by himself against an unfriendly judiciary and its plutocrat, globalist benefactors. He cannot fix the migration problems by himself against an adversarial judiciary and its plutocrat globalist benefactors. The same goes for attacks against our freedoms.

Our government has three branches, and the Lawyer Party in two of those branches has nearly taken over completely. That has happened, because most people in the USA don’t care enough to learn about how our government works and expect the politicians to save them without any effort on their part.

We’re surrounded by trash culture that has drifted in over several generations from many anti-American nations for nothing more than money and material things. Worse yet, they want to establish the gangster cultures of their old countries here. They know nothing about being real Americans, and they don’t want to know.

Those of you who really do want a cleaner, less corrupt government need to educate yourselves on how our government works, and each and every one of you needs to take some action to get President Trump reelected and give him a better Congress to work with.

And realize that our government has so many foreign-minded creeping things established in and around it, that the effort will take a few years. In other words, many of us should be trying to grow up enough to have some patience and endurance. This is not a television movie about a fantasy. It won’t get done in an hour, two hours or several “episodes.”

[central_va]

Do you think you are the only one who has observed the effects of globalism and the entrapment of Americas middle class? Plutocrat is a good word.

[familyop]

"Thanks Clinton for giving China most favorable trading status."

Clinton did speed that process up, but there were some people pushing Nixon to get it started. And Reagan preached often, that our manufacturing jobs were "dead-end jobs." He said that we would have a much better "service economy." He did some good work for defense in his day (more hardware) and worked against the defense of the future (our defense now, held back by loyalty-free trade).

For several generations, there's been no president as good for us all as President Trump--not even close. Yet all of the most influential constituents, members of Congress, judges, lawyers, people in his own Executive branch (thanks to the crooked lawyers and lobbyists for generations) and mentally unfit journalists are pushing against him.

And what do too many voters do now? The complain and push against the President. They claim that he can defeat the whole world arrayed against him and make everything right all by himself, contrary to our own law of the land (the Constitution and our balance of powers). They're useless.

[familyop]

"Do you think you are the only one who has observed the effects of globalism and the entrapment of Americas middle class?"

The middle class? The middle class? Oh. You mean the socialist political regulator class. We, who were tossed out of our technical jobs in the private sector had our last look at middle class living in the 1970s. Now, members of the middle class not directly employed by government are employed by government contractors and companies that use the government as a tool to regulate against any new domestic competition.

The President implied many promises to both sides in politics. Remember when he said that he wanted Oprah to be his running mate? There were many other implied promises like that, too. They thought they had a stealth lefty getting into the presidency.

We're going to need to fight politically to solve those problems at home. Then, we're most likely going to defend ourselves against a new axis of foreign, expansionist adversaries in the process of trying to get fair trade deals and free ocean routes.

But oh, yeah, those stoned, middle class liberaltarians have their presumption in fallacious arguments that navies, air forces, nukes, military buildups and commie/fascist expansionism are all fake. That's exactly why we'll probably find out what it's like to try to live through nuclear exchanges soon enough.

[familyop]

"Plutocrat is a good word."

Thank you. I don't think we're all that far apart but not completely sure. Here's a short list.

* We need to build up a much larger private sector manufacturing base, but it's going to take some time. And every one of us needs to put some effort and even whatever money we can spare into the effort. The President has worked hard at what he's trying to do, and we need to do the same.

* We need to rid our society of political correctness and its ugly changes in our English language. And there's no good reason for men being kept from technical jobs (manufacturing, repair, construction, all).

* We need to cut a whole lot of spending on government departments and individuals who work against us. We don't need "gatekeepers" paid to gossip or get in the way of real progress (or men at work).

* We need to clean up our house of ill repute. Waiting until all of the trash people OD on their drugs, crash and burn on the highways and die from venereal diseases is taking too long. America can't control its emotions or think clearly while indulging in drugs that turn minds towards retarded conspiracy theories, kill human motivation, cause domestic abuse and increase crime rates. Who wants to hire a factory full of diseased zombies?

* We're going to need to fight politically for our rights all the way, until domestic enemies against our human (constitutional) rights lose their will to fight. Not possible? Not true. Look at how political/regulator socialist persistence pays off for the perverts of politics. Incrementalism. We haven't tried it, yet. Too many of us give up instead and complain against those who work the hardest for us. I've seen several threads over the past few days full of comments against supporting President Trump.