Not only does this strengthen Trump’s hand in China trade negotiations, but it shuts up the MSM snowflakes with their predictions of Trump giving away the store just to get a deal w NK.
As for Fat Kim...
Now, Kim must make another long 3-and-a-half-day rail journey back to Pyongyang, where he must deliver the message that Trump won’t fall for anything less than what he demands. I have not been able to discover if Kim’s planned extra two days in Hanoi following the summit will be cut short.
If so, that will be a lost opportunity, for Kim would have heard from his communist brothers in Viet Nam about the many benefits of opening to the West, and of how the Americans can be really helpful in dealing with the Chinese, who regard all of the East Asian neighbors as tributary states, properly subordinate to the Middle Kingdom, as they have been for millennia.
He would also notice that the population in Viet Nam is pretty happy with the economic progress that has improved their standard of living and supports their communist dictatorship because it is materially upgrading their lives.
Let’s look at two past negotiations with nuclear powers made by former Presidents:
1. President Reagan walked out on the Reykjavik Summit with Mikhail Gorbachev in October 1986 after Gorbachev insisted on Reagan stopping the SDI project.
Reagan wrote that he left the meeting knowing how close they had come to achieving his long goal of eliminating the threat of nuclear destruction, and that this was the angriest moment of his career.
Despite failing to achieve either man’s ultimate goal, Reykjavik will be recorded as one of the most important summits in history. A year after Reykjavik the U.S. and Soviet Union signed the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), for the first time eliminating an entire class of nuclear weapons. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) was signed a few years later during President H.W Bush’s term.
2. Look at the way the Obama Administration caved-in to Iranian demands and produced the JCPOA agreement, sending billions of dollars to the chief sponsors of terrorism in the world, and obtaining an agreement that allowed full nuclearization of Iran in ten years.
That agreement that is of course, now all but defunct.