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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Maybe France shouldn’t still be playing footsie with Iran.
Dearest euros: We saved your butts from each other at least twice. We have defended you since WWII. Shut up.
How do you say “Art of the Deal” in French?
I surrender!
” .... pay for China’s bad behavior. “
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So we should just allow China’s bad behavior?
Does France produce much anymore? Europe?
Trump ain’t buying your crap, France.
Trump ain’t buying your crap, France.
Bingo!!!
The idea that an American President should look out for Americans first is “absurd” and “incomprehensible.”
Europe without the US is a paper tiger and China and the ME know it.
LOL!
...And Europe is afraid to even say so!
Suck it up, cheese eating surrender monkeys. Oh and MAGA.
All the tough and brave men died in WWII leaving the cuckolds to reproduce.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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”.
“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 ...
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.
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