Posted on 03/01/2019 4:05:43 PM PST by Kaslin
For the first time in history, America walked away from a bad deal with North Korea.
President Trump’s second summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un ended early without a signed agreement, and while a signed peace agreement will have to wait for another day, the president unquestionably made the right decision.
In his post-summit press conference, President Trump explained that Kim wanted the U.S. to remove international sanctions in exchange for only partial denuclearization — a complete non-starter that the president wisely rejected.
Unlike past presidents, who have given the Kim regime billions of dollars worth of aid in exchange for empty promises that North Korea quickly reneged on, President Trump has engaged a different strategy and is sticking with it.
Even President Trump’s liberal critics agree that President Trump made the right move in Hanoi.
"I would say at least for me personally, that seems like the best of all circumstances where the president continues to communicate with a country that we were close to war with a year ago, that most foreign policy experts gave us a 50/50 chance of having a land war in the Korean peninsula a year ago," Joe Scarborough said on "Morning Joe" just hours after the summit ended.
The president "talked but didn't give away anything," he added, noting that this was "the great fear, especially after the Cohen testimony yesterday."
"Joe, I agree with you," said Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, a critic of the president’s foreign policy. "I think as President Trump said, sometimes you have to walk."
They’re quite right, and that’s exactly what sets this president apart from his predecessors. No establishment politician would have walked away from the negotiating table while facing the sort of domestic political pressure that the Democrats created with the absurd Michael Cohen hearing conducted in the midst of the Hanoi summit, as many media outlets tacitly acknowledged by predicting that the president would accept a bad deal in order to claim a victory.
Instead, President Trump once again defied political convention by placing America’s interests first.
The deal proposed by Kim would have given the dictator significant leverage in future negotiations, making it nearly impossible for the U.S. to achieve the ultimate goal of a denuclearized North Korea.
In fact, President Trump’s tough negotiating style not only allowed him to avoid making any unwarranted concessions, it may also have strengthened his hand when it comes to another vital effort: negotiating a new trade deal with China.
“I think this is a moment of reassessment for China,” Southeast Asia expert Gordon Chang told Fox News, arguing that the president’s refusal to cave to Kim puts added pressure on Chinese President Xi Jinping as the two countries pursue bilateral trade negotiations.
The Chinese economy is already faltering under the weight of the targeted counter-tariffs that President Trump imposed in response to China’s illegal trade practices, and the outcome of the Hanoi summit shows Xi that he shouldn’t expect any unilateral concessions from America, either.
President Trump’s decision to withdraw from talks with North Korea is just the latest example of the diplomatic acumen he has displayed since taking office. America still has the advantage, North Korean missiles still aren’t flying through the air, and crushing sanctions are still in place. And, as always, Donald Trump is still ready and willing to negotiate if Kim comes up with a more reasonable proposition.
The Chinese are not suffering.
The Chinese just ran the single largest trade surplus with America, that any country in the history of the entire world, has ever run against any other country.
In all recorded history.
Ever.
In the year which just ended.
The all-time record high.
That makes sense if you look at the big picture.
Trump has the economy booming.
People are working and making money.
People are spending that money.
Most of our stuff comes from China.
They sold us a lot of stuff because the economy is booming and people have money to buy their stuff.
The power to walk away from any deal is often the greatest power any great negotiator possesses.
From a garage sale beanie baby to a luxury auto or home.
My Dad taught me this long ago. He made big bucks and has impeccable credit. And yet he would walk away from a deal in a heartbeat, with a smile. He understood that real power in negotiations lay not in having the ability to make a deal, but in NOT accepting a deal if it wasn’t the right one for his family.
This seems to be lost on the MSM, I believe because they want to believe that President Trump is in it for himself. When in fact he’s there for we, the people. And the large part of them know it and cant stomach that truth.
Trump: So, we tried to make a deal but the North Koreans made a horrendous offer and wouldn't budge on it. I wasn't going to sign anything that goes against America's interests so I said, "Thanks, but no thanks." Sometimes you have to be willing to walk away from the table.
MSM: .......................What a ----ing idiot!
Most of our stuff just one generation ago, was made in America.
Bring it back. Now.
The fact is that the LSM (Lame Stream Media) are the idiots. President Trump is very wise
Please remember that the Progressive traitors used the Cohen circus to embolden the Korea dictator to think that Trump was weak and would lower his demands.
Another Trump win...Great job, President Trump!!
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