We elected Trump to bring back jobs and grow the economy internally. He has been reasonably successful at both so far. The China deal is a lot more complicated than trade numbers. First we need them to pull the plug on NK, and that requires some sort of payment by us. Second we need them to stop stealing our IP, attacking our internet, etc. That’s a lot harder but more important than raw trade numbers.
That’s a lot harder but more important than raw trade numbers.
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The $375 billion (and growing) trade deficit with China finances much of their efforts to steal our intellectual property and military secrets, explore for weaknesses in our infrastructure, support globalist open-border types in the West to weaken us and help build up their military capabilities.