Trump Denies Reaching Deal With China on ZTE

New York Times ^ | May 22, 2018 | Ana Swanson and Jim Tankersley

[Zhang Fei]

President Trump declared on Tuesday that he was not happy with how recent trade talks with China had gone, and said the United States had not reached a deal to suspend penalties on the Chinese telecom firm ZTE, disputing reports that the administration had decided to go easy on the company in return for trade concessions.

“There is no deal. We will see what happens,” Mr. Trump said ...

Also on Tuesday, a bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to key trade officials in the administration urging them to protect national security interests during the China trade negotiations, including by rejecting China’s requests to open up transfers of military technologies and not lifting penalties on ZTE.

“Export control and sanctions laws should not be negotiable, because fidelity to the rule of law is a key part of what distinguishes the U.S. from a country like China that is ruled by a Communist dictatorship,” the letter said.

Mr. Trump’s plans to aggressively challenge China on its unfair trade practices initially won the support of senators like Mr. Rubio; John Cornyn, Republican of Texas; and Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, all of whom signed the letter. But that confidence turned to questioning last week as Mr. Trump’s negotiators appeared to back away from their toughest demands for economic reform, instead asking China to make more modest changes to open up its economy to American companies and purchase more American products.

The president’s approach to the negotiations has left many China hawks flummoxed. Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio and a longtime critic of China’s economic practices, urged Mr. Trump in a letter on Tuesday to “not make the same mistakes as previous administrations” by failing to secure commitments from the Chinese to make structural changes to the countries’ trading relationship.

[Zhang Fei]

The fat lady hasn't sung. Signing up to be China's gas station or grain silo isn't gonna help American companies getting the shaft from the Communist Party.

[Gene Eric]

Curious how regularly NYT used Mr Obama instead of President Obama

[Zhang Fei]

“Curious how regularly NYT used Mr Obama instead of President Obama”

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That’s normal. After mentioning the subject’s title at the beginning of the article, it usually refers to the subject as Mr or Ms:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/us/obama-immigration-speech.html
In a 15-minute address from the East Room of the White House that sought to appeal to a nation’s compassion, Mr. Obama told Americans that deporting millions is “not who we are” and cited Scripture, saying, “We shall not oppress a stranger for we know the heart of a stranger — we were strangers once, too.”

[catnipman]

hilarious that even Congress bit on the fake news that Trump went easy on ZTE, trying pass legislation to prevent him from going easy ...

[Clutch Martin]

The worst smartphone I ever owned was a ZTE. I’ll never around another.

[Gene Eric]

Thank you.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

We are never going to be able to stop reverse engineering all it takes is one product to be RE’d and a deal would be broken on intellectual content IMO any deal would be fruitless !

But like the prez says we will see !