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'Absurd and incomprehensible': France warns that US-China trade deal could cost Europe
TheLocal.fr ^ | 20 May 2018 15:00 CEST+02:00 | AFP

Posted on 05/20/2018 3:45:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Europe could end up rueing a potential new deal between China and the United States after the two sides stepped back from a trade war, France’s Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire warned on Sunday.

“The United States and China risk entering an agreement at the expense of Europe if Europe is not capable of showing a firm hand,” Le Maire told CNEWS television.

“The United States wants to make Europe and European countries pay for China’s bad behavior. All of that is totally absurd and incomprehensible for allies,” he said.

His comments came after a joint statement issued in Washington said Beijing had agreed to reduce its trade deficit, “significantly” increasing purchases of American goods. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; brunolemaire; china; dsj02; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; eussr; france; germany; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; lebanon; macron; nato; redchina
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1 posted on 05/20/2018 3:45:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe France shouldn’t still be playing footsie with Iran.


2 posted on 05/20/2018 3:46:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Olog-hai

Dearest euros: We saved your butts from each other at least twice. We have defended you since WWII. Shut up.


3 posted on 05/20/2018 3:47:31 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Olog-hai

How do you say “Art of the Deal” in French?

I surrender!


4 posted on 05/20/2018 3:48:02 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Commie is a dead Commie. Cast your Vote Accordingly.)
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To: Olog-hai

” .... pay for China’s bad behavior. “

??

So we should just allow China’s bad behavior?

Does France produce much anymore? Europe?


5 posted on 05/20/2018 3:49:13 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Olog-hai

Trump ain’t buying your crap, France.


6 posted on 05/20/2018 3:51:32 PM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: Olog-hai

Trump ain’t buying your crap, France.


7 posted on 05/20/2018 3:51:43 PM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: Paladin2

Bingo!!!


8 posted on 05/20/2018 3:52:27 PM PDT by Man from Oz
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To: Olog-hai

The idea that an American President should look out for Americans first is “absurd” and “incomprehensible.”


9 posted on 05/20/2018 3:52:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Olog-hai

Europe without the US is a paper tiger and China and the ME know it.


10 posted on 05/20/2018 3:55:32 PM PDT by LukeL
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It's CHINA that "wants to make Europe and European countries pay for China’s bad behavior. "

LOL!
...And Europe is afraid to even say so!

11 posted on 05/20/2018 3:56:33 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Olog-hai

Suck it up, cheese eating surrender monkeys. Oh and MAGA.


12 posted on 05/20/2018 3:57:16 PM PDT by 50mm (.. / -.. .. -.. / - .... .. ... / ..-. --- .-. / -. --- / .-. . .- ... --- -. .-.-.-)
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To: mrsmith

All the tough and brave men died in WWII leaving the cuckolds to reproduce.


13 posted on 05/20/2018 3:58:01 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: Olog-hai

France has a huge trade deficit with China too, as does the EU.

But the free there are worried about exports instead of all the jobs they lost to the cheap imports.

If China starts buying more from the US, China might buy less from France and EU causing their large trade deficits to get worse.

Instead of growing a spine and demanding a lower trade deficit with China, they are going to whine about the US doing something about our trade deficit.


14 posted on 05/20/2018 3:58:03 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Olog-hai

France has a huge trade deficit with China too, as does the EU.

But the free there are worried about exports instead of all the jobs they lost to the cheap imports.

If China starts buying more from the US, China might buy less from France and EU causing their large trade deficits to get worse.

Instead of growing a spine and demanding a lower trade deficit with China, they are going to whine about the US doing something about our trade deficit.


15 posted on 05/20/2018 3:58:03 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Who CARES! France you owe us trillions plus. So many Americans died doing what your men should have done. Your men are wimps and you did absolutely very little in two world wars. Quit bitching and start paying. We do not need your Muslim influx.


16 posted on 05/20/2018 4:00:31 PM PDT by Lumper20
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I am so sick and tired of Europe and their forever whining about something. Unless a deal, any deal, favors them 100% they whine. They are not now and never have been a friend of ours.


17 posted on 05/20/2018 4:03:49 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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“The United States and China risk entering an agreement at the expense of Europe if Europe is not capable of showing a firm hand,” Le Maire told CNEWS television.

Well then , I guess the Europeans just need to show a “firm hand”.


18 posted on 05/20/2018 4:06:13 PM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: Olog-hai

“Europe could end up rueing a potential new deal between China and the United States after the two sides stepped back from a trade war, France’s Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire warned on Sunday. “The United States and China risk entering an agreement at the expense of Europe if Europe is not capable of showing a firm hand,” “

perfect example the wisdeom of Trump’s insistence on bilateral deals and NO multilateral deals ...


19 posted on 05/20/2018 4:09:19 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon

Right from the start, the EU was all about pushing something called the “social market economy”. It’s deliberately at odds with the USA’s idea of the free market.


20 posted on 05/20/2018 4:22:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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