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Don’t Fall for China’s ‘Negotiation Traps’: Former Trump Advisor
The Epoch Times ^ | February 4, 2021 | Eva Fu

Posted on 02/05/2021 10:48:18 AM PST by Art-Diver

The new U.S. administration should stand firm when dealing with Beijing and avoid falling into the communist regime’s crafty “negotiation traps,” a former White House security official has said.

“Don’t fall for a trap that Beijing sets time and again for administration after administration, which is to try to lure the United States into a long, formal, mid-level bottoms-up negotiation,” said former deputy National Security advisor Matthew Pottinger in his first public speech since leaving the White House in January.

He said that the former White House cabinet only learnt “not to let China draw out the clock” after a year of back and forth negotiations, and after reviewing the previous dialogues of the last two decades in which the United States got “trapped,” leading to the “U.S. trade deficit and our hemorrhaging of intellectual property.”

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1 posted on 02/05/2021 10:48:18 AM PST by Art-Diver
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To: Art-Diver

舊敗等 笨蛋


2 posted on 02/05/2021 10:52:02 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Art-Diver

If you want to get screwed, did you walk into a trap? The only measure of success these clowns have in any negotiation is how much money goes into the bank accounts of their friends and family.


3 posted on 02/05/2021 11:06:58 AM PST by nhbob1
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