When you depend on a partner who buys 4 times as much stuff from you as you do from him, it’s doesn’t take an MBA to realize who is beholden to whom. No other nation on earth can come close to replacing the US as a customer for cheap Chinese goods that keep those millions of rural Chinese from starving like they were under central control. Xi has seriously overplayed his hand the chicom bosses are putting great pressure on him to back down sooner rather than later.
The real question I have is whether Trump will allow Xi to save face or continue to push him in to a corner and break him.
I predict he will allow him to save face.
To Trump, this is just another deal.
He only cares about the goal (fair trade).
The tariffs against Chinese imports are the sticks...ways for Xi to save face are the carrots.
“Trump will allow Xi to save face or continue to push him in to a corner and break him.”
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Lol. Break Xi?
Trump has got more chance to break Mueller.
He will not seek to help Xi save face. Xi will have to back down, but Trump will play it nice with him, then.