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BEIJING U.S. and Chinese negotiators opened talks Thursday on a sprawling trade dispute as Beijing reported its January exports rebounded despite President Donald Trump's tariff hikes. Trump said earlier the talks could help decide whether he escalates the fight over China's technology ambitions by going ahead with more penalty duties March 2 on $200 billion of Chinese goods. The battle between the two biggest economies has fueled fears it will drag on weakening global growth. China's economy grew at its slowest pace in three-decades last year, adding to pressure on communist leaders to reach a settlement. Both sides have expressed...

#StampOutSocialism in America The corrosive hatred of America now being seen on daily display did not come hurtling from out of nowhere overnight. It has been cultivated and nurtured from the get-go by a president both in and out of office. Hatred of America had been out there festering on the sidelines for decades until Senator Barack Hussein Obama came along to exploit it to the nth degree.

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Robert Lighthizer has spent his entire career preparing for the next two weeks of negotiations with China. The Trump administration’s 71-year-old U.S. trade representative was one of the earliest and most forceful opponents of China’s admission to the World Trade Organization. He derided as “wishful thinking” the idea then popular in both the Republican and Democratic parties that greater trade would lead to a more open, market-oriented and responsible China. Having lost that battle when the Clinton administration supported China’s WTO entry, he complained as trade between the United States and China grew more and more imbalanced, resulting in trade...

The president wants to sign an executive order before Mobile World Congress in late February, according to Politico. -- President Donald Trump is likely to ban Chinese telecom equipment from US wireless networks by signing an executive order as soon as next week, according to Politico. The administration wants to issue the order before Mobile World Congress, Politico reported Thursday, citing three anonymous sources. MWC 2019, the world's largest mobile industry show, runs from Feb. 25 to 28 in Barcelona. (Please see full article at the link)

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Socialism kills human souls and human hope wherever it is allowed to raise its ugly, deadly and debilitating head. When Senator Elizabeth Warren tried to steal minority status as a Native American for personal political opportunism, DNA proved that she is somewhere between 1/64th and 1/1024th—or 1.6 percent and 0.1 percent—Native American which she nonetheless went on to tout as proof of her longtime dishonest claims of Native American heritage. Now that she’s casting her blue eyes on the 2020 presidency, she contends that a jail cell is a certainty for President Donald Trump because he “may not even be...

A photo of two young boys who stopped to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in front of a North Carolina firehouse has gone viral. Over the weekend, Roseboro Fire Department posted an image of the boys with their hands over their hearts as the flag was raised. The department said in a Facebook post on Friday that their chaplain spotted the two boys, now identified as Thomas, 7, and Derrick, 6, paying respect to the flag in Roseboro, a small town near Raleigh. "This afternoon as Chaplain Herring was raising the U.S. flag to full staff, he looked over to...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT TRUMP and VICE PRESIDENT PENCE 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. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance. The LORD looks from heaven;...

China is unleashing killer robots and stealth drones that carry out targeted airstrikes without a human pressing the fire button (Full title) -- CHINA is aggressively unleashing lethal fully autonomous drones that can carry out targeted military strikes, a think tank has warned. The killer drones and pilotless aircraft fitted with AK-47 rifles are being exported to Asia, Africa and combat zones in the Middle East. (Please see link for full article) Apparently they will be ready this year. Keep on buying everything from China. Every single bit, makes China stronger, and stronger, and stronger. For 30 years, this has...

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EUROPE and the US should put their trade tensions aside and “link arms” against the future threat of China, Donald Trumps’s EU ambassador has said. -- Gordon Sondland, US ambassador to the European Union, said China’s influence was “malign” and the US and EU should join forces and overcome their current trade tensions. He recommended they combine “mutual energies” and take on the East Asian nation on three fronts: economically, from an intelligence standpoint and militarily. But the USA and EU are currently locked in a trade war with little hope of progress. (Please see full article at the link)

LIKE many Australians, I’m watching with fascinated unease at the rise of China, and the impact that an increasingly hostile dispute between it and the United States is having on the world as we know it. Obviously, there’s not much that any of us in regional Australia can do beyond watching from the stands as the world’s two great powers face off in a trade and cyber-security battle that is also a contest between two radically different systems of human organisation. Three months ago in November, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters that “Australia doesn't have to choose and we...

Marty Davis thinks President Donald Trump has “done more that’s right for trade in America than any president since World War II.” Davis, a Minnesotan and member of one of the country’s richest families, once worked on his family’s massive dairy farm. Now, he runs Cambria, a producer of quartz used in countertops and other surfaces. His battle against Chinese competitors who dumped hundreds of millions of dollars worth of government-subsidized quartz slabs into the U.S. market from 2010-2018 made him a true believer in Trump’s tariffs on some imports. Davis said the Chinese offered finished quartz at prices below...

UN Moving In For the Kill: New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s poison ivy ‘Green New Deal’ didn’t originate from one of her said to be “occasional cortex” spurts, it was lifted from fellow traveller radical environmentalists in the country next door. “Ocasio-Cortez has been labeled an innovative thinker for offering the allegedly visionary Green New Deal, but the truth is that most of these ideas have been floating around socialist circles since at least the early 2000s, and there is strong evidence to suggest that much of the draft text of Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal is merely a...

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. THERE IS A MORAL AND SPIRITUAL WAR FOR THE SOULS OF AMERICANS. AND THIS WAR MUST BE WAGED BY PREACHING THE GOSPEL, PRAYER, AND OBEDIENCE TO...

The United States is expected to take more planned and pre-emptive measures in response to China’s “grey zone tactics” in the Asia-Pacific region, according to analysts from the US and Australia. The assessment follows a call on Wednesday by US Navy chief Admiral John Richardson for tougher action against “grey zone” aggression from Russia and China, as a way to prevent maritime tensions from escalating into full-blown conflicts. A conceptual space between peace and war, grey zone tactics involve coercive actions below a threshold that could typically prompt a conventional military response. Please see link, for full article.

Major equity indexes in the U.S. started the day in the negative territory on Friday with investors staying away from risky assets amid resurfacing concerns over the U.S. - China trade conflict. U.S. President Trump, who earlier this month said that there wouldn't be a final deal until he met with Chinese President Xi, reportedly does not have any plans to meet Xi Jinping before the March 1 deadline. Reflecting the dismal mood, the CBOE Volatility Index, Wall Street's fear gauge, is up nearly 5% on the day. -- Please see link for full article.

Nikon Corp said Foxconn Technology Group had requested to delay the instalment of equipment at the Taiwanese firm's new liquid crystal display (LCD) plant in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Comments from the Japanese equipment maker come after Foxconn, formally Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, last week said its plant at Guangzhou was on schedule and denied a media report of production delay. (Please see link for full article)

Join Freepers throughout the world to pray for PRESIDENT TRUMP and VICE-PRESIDENT PENCE and for AMERICA: All Levels of Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, Health Care Systems 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.