[DIRTYSECRET]

Makes me mad. The article says 6:46 pm. That’s est. That would be 3 hours after the stock market closed. Gottawait till Monday to se the results.

[DoughtyOne]

Trump hailed China's pledged to rapidly ramp up purchases of American farm products, to a stunning figure of $40-50 billion. That would be a stunning feat, more than doubling from the prior level of less than $20 billion in 2017.

Total US agriculture exports were $140 billion in 2018, so that increase would mean a third would go to China.

Ah... no, isn't the take away that we should expect $170 billion in farm exports now?

Why would someone think the existing exports to existing trade partners would suddenly fall?

Failed logic...

[entropy12]

China just bought themselves a delay of 12+ months.
We will not know for 12 months if China is fulfilling their commitment.

China routinely lies and ignores commitments. This “partial” deal was brilliant Chinese gambit to wait and see if Biden or some other democrat wins in 2020.

Finally the promise to buy US agricultural products is dwarfed by the size trade deficits. And it does nothing to fix the MAIN PROBLEM of loss of manufacturing jobs which are middle class jobs.

[central_va]

China gets what they want - no tariff increase, big ag gets what they want and the American people lose. That 5% increase was needed to raise revenue and to help balance trade.

The Chinese are laughing at us.

The rust belt is watching ( in horror )

[spokeshave]

Please Mr President...allow the US membership in the International Postal Union lapse on October 17th.

This will put a crimp on Chicom distribution of Fentanyl in the US.

[jdsteel]

IMHO China would have preferred to wait and hope for someone other than Trump to deal with. Things in China must be even worse than I thought.

[central_va]

Nothing like a Chinese trade victory to bring out the Free Traitors™ en masse.

[plain talk]

Great news.

[Shadow44]

If Trump thinks China is ever going to honor intellectual property rights, then he’s going to get taken to the cleaners. The only real solution is decoupling our economy from China.

[mrsmith]

Maybe President Trump can switch to a law-based battle with China.
“Lock ‘em up!”
Enforce exchange audit rules.

We’ll see.

[Caipirabob]

Either way, we will actively avoid all chicom products when and where possible and loudly let people know why we won’t buy them.

Screw the chicoms to hell. Let them burn.

[wastedyears]

Countdown until China breaks the deal.

[SaveFerris]

THE PRESIDENT TRUMP TARIFFS ARE GOING TO CRASH THE WHOLE ECONOMY!! EVERYONE PANIC!! /Yahoo liberals

[Candor7]

This is driving the left nuts. So MUCH winning!

China is casting its hat with Trump and not waiting to see the 2020 election results.

China thinks President Trump will be re-elected. I agree.

[Crucial]

I would trust the Chinese as far as I could throw them.