“Of course, because France has never believed in unfair trade practices with foreign countries. (stiffled laughter)”
France attempts to practice trade practices that are good for France and the French.
America is practicing trade practices that are bad for American national security, bad for the manufacturing and agricultural sectors, and bad for an increasing number of Americans, but which are very good for an class of international money elites who have no particularly deep loyalty to America.
France’s trade policies have been self-interested.
America’s trade policies favor a class of people that are not perforce Americans, and they have the effect of undermining America itself in the long term.
In other words, France’s trade practices are in France’s self-interest, and are intelligent.
America’s trade practices are suicidal and idiotic.
Which explains France's postion in the world, and her economy, and America's.
France has been waiting, eagerly, for America to self-destruct a long time. Y'all've got a lot longer to wait, but if it pleases you, feel free to continue to pretend France is a paragon of the virtues, while eeeeeevil America keeps screwing up and expanding its economy and making the world a better place for bordeux-sipping nobodies who've contributed zero to the world since WW2.