Chinese must be testing the waters, to size up American in a new political environment after the shake-up in the last mid-term election.
Memories of Clinton era die hard among Chinese, I suspect.
NOPE.
This means that we are getting the truth out of China...FINALLY.
Under Clinton it was like 'oh you have such a glorious country! give us XYZ and we will be soo good to you..'
This is the real China speaking...and has been since I have been around.
America is finally getting a dose of one thing: REALITY.
If America wants to play, drop the diplomacy and grab China by the gonads and squeeze until we get an agreement or blood, one or the other.
That is Chinese negotiations at its finest.
Sounds like this delegation went over unprepared. Bluffing as always, and still ignorant.
They seem like a bunch of amateurs from the sounds of it.
Scrap the diplomacy and the odd 'we want to look good to our hosts-we are not really ugly Americans' kind of mentality and and put the b*tch on her knees.
We can, and we should.