China says Trump's trade threat over N. Korea 'unacceptable'

abc news ^ | Sept. 04, 2017

[Hadean]

China on Monday criticized President Donald Trump's threat to cut off U.S. trade with countries that deal with North Korea and rejected pressure to do more to halt the North's nuclear development.

Trump issued the threat after North Korea on Sunday exploded a thermonuclear device in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. The threat was seen as a warning to China, North Korea's main trading partner and only major ally.

A foreign ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, criticized Trump's stance as unfair to Beijing.

"What is definitely unacceptable to us is that on the one hand we work so hard to peacefully resolve this issue and on the other hand our interests are subject to sanctions and jeopardized," Geng said at a regular news briefing. "This is unfair."

Such an approach would be drastic if applied to China, from which the United States imports goods worth about $40 billion a month.

Trump said it was under consideration "in addition to other options."

Asked whether Beijing would support tougher U.N. sanctions such as cutting off oil supplies to North Korea, Geng didn't mention oil but said whatever happened would depend on discussions among council members. Geng said China, one of five permanent Security Council members with power to veto U.N. actions, would take part in a "responsible and constructive way."

Geng expressed frustration at Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's comment that Beijing had a responsibility to influence North Korea due to its status as the North's main trading partner.

[Thibodeaux]

Vietnamese, Taiwan Korea Maylasia and on and on

Illinois? Ha

California ? Ha

New York, Ha, Ha, Ha

[central_va]

Arkansas, Georgia and Texas. yes, yes and yes.

[Thibodeaux]

Dream on...... it ain’t going to happen

[central_va]

Now is a good time to start raising tariffs. More tariffs and less income taxes are the ticket. I wish you neocons would get the hell out of my party.

[Thibodeaux]

If there are any tariffs, they will be very tightly target and will be retaliatory and not for the purpose of raising revenue.

Your party is very small....... only you

[central_va]

Funny that you neocon globalists know so little about the party you co-opted.

The 1924 Republican Party Platform

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The Tariff

We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.

In the history of the nation the protective tariff system has ever justified itself by restoring confidence, promoting industrial activity and employment, enormously increasing our purchasing power and bringing increased prosperity to all our people.

[2001convSVT]

uh, F U China and the egg roll you rode in on.

And Nixon too!

[Thibodeaux]

You don’t comprehend the reality........ that is obsolete, archaic bull shit.

You are an anachronism that never made it through the 1940’s.

[central_va]

I think globalists are unAmerican POS. Like you.

[Thibodeaux]

But you must remember you are but an anachronism of no significance. Many believe that in your bitterness you have given up on life

[central_va]

But you must remember you are but an anachronism of no significance. Many believe that in your bitterness you have given up on life

Wow, what drama. The "many"?. I've given up on Free Traitors™ and RINO Republicans, the so called many who are but a tiny minoriy..

[central_va]

The 2016 Republican Platform:

We cannot allow foreign governments to limit American access to their markets while stealing our designs, patents, brands, know-how, and technology. We cannot allow China to continue its currency manipulation, exclusion of U.S. products from government purchases, and subsidization of Chinese companies to thwart American imports. The current Administration’s way of dealing with these violations of world trade standards has been a virtual surrender.

Republicans understand that you can succeed in a negotiation only if you are willing to walk away from it. A Republican president will insist on parity in trade and stand ready to implement countervailing duties if other countries refuse to cooperate.