Posted on 08/27/2019 7:52:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One day later, China is still insisting no phone calls took place over the weekend that President Donald Trump claimed showed its willingness to talk again.
“I have not heard of this situation regarding the two calls that the U.S. mentioned in the weekend,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at press conference on Tuesday. He had denied on Monday that the calls had taken place.
“Regretfully, the U.S. has further increased the tax rate on China’s exports to the U.S. This extreme pressure is purely harmful to both sides and not constructive at all,” Geng said, according to a CNBC translation.
On Monday, Trump said at the G-7 summit in France that China in recent phone conversations expressed its desire for a deal. His comment renewed hopes for a resolution between the world’s two largest economies, pushing the market higher as the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 250 points Monday.
Trump abruptly ended the tariff cease-fire earlier this month by slapping more tariffs on Chinese goods, and China retaliated with imposing duties on $75 billion more of U.S. goods and resumed auto tariffs. Trump also said he’s ordering U.S. companies to immediately start looking for an alternative to China.
“We hope that the U.S. can maintain calm, return to rationality, stop wrong practices, and create conditions for the two sides to conduct consultations on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit,” Geng said Tuesday.
Chinese state-run media Xinhua is also sticking to its tough stance on the trade war.
“China did not and will not surrender,” Xinhua said in a commentary on Tuesday. “Playing the old tricks of bullying and maximum pressure, the U.S. administration has escalated the trade tensions repeatedly and tried to coerce China into accepting its irrational demands.”
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And here’s how Vanity Fair put it:
SOURCE: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/donald-trump-china-phone-call
TRUMP APPEARS TO BE LYING, AGAIN, TO SAVE HIS OWN ASS
The Dow rallied on the news of the president’s alleged call with China, which Beijing flatly denied.
by Bess Levin
THE HONG KONG STANDARD HAS THIS HEADLINE:
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=133554&sid=2
Trump says China called for talks, but Beijing denies phone contact
This report from the South China Morning Post:
Beijing casts doubt on state of trade talks after Donald Trump says it wanted a deal
Foreign ministry ‘not aware’ of weekend phone calls in which US president said China asked to ‘get back to the table’
The two sides are in contact only at a technical level, state media editor says
That is one-sidedly true. It is not constructive for China.
China is playing the tease-the-U.S.-media game for favorable publicity. It worked for North Vietnam and the Soviet Union.
That is a carefully worded denial. It sounds like they learned a lot from the “missing” Clinton emails.
....in bed.
Trump told them what would happen. Trump within minutes, called their bluff and raised tariffs. The jOkeass watchers should not be in charge. Trump is not jOkeass.
RE: Oh America does not need China however China needs America’s huge consumer markets.
China will have to re-focus its market to target its own 1.4 billion people instead of America.
They like to do everything in secret and under the table. Being exposed causes them to ‘lose face’ in their minds. And that is just what Trump wants. Plus, the media is once again diverted from what is really going on.
“China did not and will not surrender,” Xinhua said in a commentary on Tuesday. “Playing the old tricks of bullying and maximum pressure, the U.S. administration has escalated the trade tensions repeatedly and tried to coerce China into accepting its irrational demands.”
Sure don’t sound like he likes that stick up his azz.
This is exactly what should happen, but it is exactly what the CCP fears most, and will steadfastly refuse to do.
China has to try to call him a liar, even if he didn't so that reaction will never happen again.
Reagan sunk the Soviet Union...Trump is going to help China sink itself by exposing the fact they can never be trusted.
STOP BUYING ANYTHING FROM CHINA!
DO IT NOW!
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