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U.S. News & World Report More WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he does not expect to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) before a deadline to resolve a trade dispute. Asked Thursday if he had a meeting set up with XI in the next month or so, Trump told reporters: "Not yet. Maybe." Pressed on whether he would meet him before the March 2 deadline, Trump said no and shook his head. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (mih-NOO'-shin) and trade representative Robert Lighthizer are leading a team to Beijing next week to continue talks aimed at resolving...

"Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country..." Central to political persuasion is the usage of words in modern language, how traditional definitions are subverted until the word means the opposite of the original intent. What is fascinating is how, by the time the word is accepted under its new guise, it is still emotionally connected to its origin. Trigger words for today have long since been undergoing a slow transformation that has actually switched definitions but not the emotional attachment to what it once meant. As twisted as this sounds, it’s primary to converting...

Yo, Bernie, your top flight lieutenant’s yada, yada, yada is falling on deaf years no matter how loud she screeches it "America will never be a socialist country”. (President Donald Trump, 2019 State of the Union Address). Never means NEVER! Now that the long road to socialism ran out of pavement in America, where should the likes of socialism pushers like Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) ply their sordid business?

Sorry but it seems like there is some effort to make a claim, that the trade situation with China is improving... Nope. It is getting worse. American exports to China are (way) down from last year, and we just set a new all-time bad trade deficit last year with China. A world record, all-time high. Ever. Between any two countries. In the entire history of the WORLD. The worst ever. And the data does not even include December yet. See for yourself: https://census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

One of President Trump’s most persistent economic promises has been to rewrite the U.S. relationship with China. Yet as he approaches a potential deal, some of the very hawks who have cheered on Trump’s trade war already fear he may end up falling short. With less than a month before a March 1 deadline for either a deal or an increase in U.S. tariffs, hardliners inside and outside the administration fret Trump is being outplayed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and seduced by what they see as empty promises. (Please see link for full article)

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There is video at the link, with President Trump announcing the next meeting with North Korean leader Kim, would be in Vietnam. Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President. :)

Good clip. I had not seen McCarthy before. Very good positions.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

China made history as the only nation other than the U.S. to ever field a stealth fighter jet, and a new report on China’s military power from the Defense Intelligence Agency just revealed yet another batch of stealth combat aircraft projects. China "is developing new medium- and long-range stealth bombers to strike regional and global targets," the report reads. "Stealth technology continues to play a key role in the development of these new bombers, which probably will reach initial operational capability no sooner than 2025." (Please see link for full article)

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The arrest of a top Huawei executive in Vancouver, glimmers of co-operation among Canadian and American officials over the issue, fresh worries that a next-generation computer and phone network will pose security and privacy threats to the United States and the resumption of vital trade talks between Washington and Beijing. Together these could have an entirely unexpected by-product as the American capital prepares for Tuesday’s State of the Union address: An unusual alignment between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Democratic rivals on the vexing problem of Beijing. It would be an American political entente that could, in this hour...

Ok, on the surface, this sounds pretty good: BEIJING (AFP) - China is fast-tracking a foreign investment law at an unprecedented pace to meet Washington's demands on trade, but businesses fear that the time to review and raise objections on a crucial piece of legislation has been cut short. The law will eliminate the requirement for foreign enterprises to transfer proprietary technology to Chinese joint-venture partners. -- With a minor, small, insignificant little detail...

Join Freepers throughout the world to pray for PRESIDENT TRUMP and VICE-PRESIDENT PENCE and for AMERICA: All Levels of Government, Family, Military, Law Enforcement, Defenders of Freedom, Business, Education, Churches, Health Care Systems, the News, Media and Social Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. YOU ARE WORTHY, OUR LORD AND GOD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOR AND POWER, FOR YOU CREATED ALL THINGS, AND BY YOUR WILL THEY WERE CREATED...

If Chicken Little hasn't told you lately, "The sky is falling." Marching out of Yorktown to surrender the British Army played the song “The World Turned Upside Down.” As I drive to Mega Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of the Wicked Witch of the West, “What a world! What a world!” There is a massive unspoken problem in America today floating like the iceberg in front of the Titanic waiting to sink the unsinkable ship. Founded by revolutionaries crying “No taxation...

The “Donald Trump/Mike Pence Prayer Vigil” and “Heroes and Nation Prayer Thread” have combined to form the AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL prayer thread! Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for our President and Vice President and for AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Remember my Forgotten Man (1933) Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of...

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Thursday talked up China’s commitment to buy more American soybeans. But the tough issues dividing the world’s two biggest economies remained unsettled after two days of meetings between U.S. and Chinese negotiators. Trump said he expects to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to try to reach a final resolution to the six-month trade standoff. “If we come to an agreement, there is a lot of work that has to be done,” U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told reporters, summarizing what he said were two days and an evening of “very intense, detailed...

Right before Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December 2017, President Trump proclaimed: “It’ll be fantastic for the middle-income people and for jobs, most of all ... I think we could go to 4%, 5% or even 6% [GDP growth], ultimately. We are back. We are really going to start to rock.” A year later, it’s very clear that the tax cuts boosted gross domestic product and jobs a bit — and just for one year. Its effects are fading as U.S. GDP growth appears likely to weaken in 2019. The only thing that “rocked” were corporate...

Our Founding Fathers created a governing framework heavily influenced by biblical principles. Slowly, we have changed from “one nation under God” to a group of people who no longer want Him to be involved. Our nation has become ungodly in several ways: Many are driven by materialism and power; immorality and rebellion are prevalent; empty philosophy and false doctrine are widely accepted. Underlying it all is the push to keep God out of the nation’s affairs. Yet even in an unbelieving society, people can, follow Jesus as individuals. But the world will continually disseminate faulty teachings, so believers must be...

Senator James Inhofe, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, has warned that Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea make it look like the Asian superpower is “preparing for World War III.” The Republican representing Oklahoma made the comments during a Tuesday hearing on foreign threats to the United States. Inhofe cited escalating tensions in the South China Sea as an area of concern for the U.S. “It’s like [China is] preparing for World War III,” the senator said, military newspaper Navy Times reported. “You’re talking to our allies over there and you wonder whose side they’re going to...