Posted on 12/02/2019 7:29:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I would say that, maybe, the President is thinking..you lay down with dogs, you’re gonna get fleas.
Nowhere on the planet do the Chinese let anyone get the better of them, until now and President Trump. Bolsonaro is playing with fire. Shame the President is the only one, of the two of them that sees it. Bolsonaro should be looking at what China is doing to Venezuela.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-07/china-comes-to-the-rescue-of-venezuela-s-run-down-oil-refineries ..... yet another Chinese debt trap.
If the goal is to have protectionist barriers taken down by trading “partners” who do not trade fairly, then across-the-board tariffs would be counter productive.
Now most of us are (correctly) yelling support for Trump's tariffs. How times have changed.
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