Posted on 11/14/2017 4:53:47 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Trumps trip to visit the ChiComs specifically has been a grand-slam home run that youre not gonna hear about. Trump knocked this whole trip to the ChiComs out of the park, and the rest of it as well, but specifically the time and attention that he gave to the ChiComs here, he just hit the ball out of the park precisely because he knows how to negotiate with them. He knows what is important to them.
Trump shows Xi and Peng video clips of his granddaughter Arabella Kushner singing in Mandarin
He had his granddaughter, 6 years old, that sang and recited poetry in Mandarin, and the Drive-Bys thought, What a cheap show. What an absolutely cheap show. Thats beyond the presidential pale. How transparent can that be, having his 6-year-old learn Chinese just for this trip? That is child abuse, is sort of what they were saying. It turns out that that was a fundamental and key element to the success of the meetings with the ChiComs.
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RUSH: While Im on the subject of the president and the ChiComs, this morning on Air Force One on the way back to the United States after the Asian trip, Trump went back and talked to the reporters in the back of the plane. A reporter said, Why are those relationships with China and others so important, and is there a risk of getting too close to President Xi Jinping?
THE PRESIDENT: The relationship is always important. It doesnt mean its necessarily close. Its really a relationship based on respect. To me, a relationship based on respect is much more important than anything else, including friendship, because this is really something. They have to respect our country, and they have not respected our country for a long period of time.
RUSH: Now, this is really key, folks. That may sound like a not quite a throwaway answer, but hes really, really on to something here. The difference between respect and friendship. Now, the left, their attitude about world affairs, global security and so forth is that the United States poses the greatest problem. (interruption) No, no, no, no. They really do. They pose the greatest problem because were the superpower. We have the biggest arsenal. We have more nukes anybody else. Were the only nation on earth thats ever used nukes.
And they are inherently predisposed to the idea the United States is the problem in the world. Particularly when a Republican is in the White House Reagan, George W. Bush, now Trump. So the left thinks that the best way to ameliorate this danger posed to the world by the United States is to become friends with all of our enemies, to become friends with all of the world leaders, even if we had to give them free health care. Trump is saying, Friendship shmenship! Thats not whats on the docket here.
Ill explain in a minute.
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RUSH: How many of you remember during the presidential campaign, particularly Trumps rallies in his campaign when he would constantly appear to be criticizing the ChiComs? He called em essentially Well, he didnt call em cheaters, but Well, maybe so. He talked about what they were doing to us, how they were unfair in trade, how their currency manipulation was very harmful and damaging. And then he lashed out at American political leaders for being stupid idiots for doing the deals they had done with the ChiComs.
Now, I had a lot of people during those instances say, I wish hes shut up about that. We dont want make them mad! You dont talk about them that way. I said, No, no, no, no. Youre missing the point. Talk like that does not make the ChiComs mad; it makes them smile. When Trump runs around and basically says, The ChiComs are running rings around American leaders and thats enabling them to really manipulate things in their favor, they smile. They like being acknowledged as winners.
They like being acknowledged at smart and brilliant and people that prevail. Now, the American way of looking at negotiations with foreign powers who might be said to be enemies is you try to come up with a deal. Whats the typical deal? The typical deal is where both sides give something up, or both sides are traditionally unhappy with it but they get a compromise, and thats said to be a good deal. Thats not how the ChiComs do it. The ChiComs do not give up anything in exchange for some sort of agreement.
Thats not their mentality. The ChiCom mentality no matter what they do is win, win, win, which happens to also be Trumps. The ChiComs, whatever it is whatever foreign international deal, treaty, arrangement, negotiation, whatever it is if they dont benefit from it (and to hell with whatever else happens to anybody else) theyre not gonna do it. The ChiComs do not think like westerners do in the sense that, Well, you give a little here and you get back something here and you end up with a deal where none of us get all that we want.
But we each get some or enough that were happy. Thats not how they go about it. They dont give up anything. Theres no reason for em to. They dont think that way. Thats not in their vocabulary. Thats not in their mind-set whatsoever. So in negotiating with them, you have to understand that about them. You still have to have arrangements, deals, what have you. And thats why Trump talked about respect in this sound bite being far more important than friendship. To the left, friendship with our enemies, Thats so important!
If we can make them like us, they wont provoke Trump into nuking them. If we can make them like us, well be safer. All of this namby-pamby stuff. But thats not how you deal with the ChiComs. If it doesnt benefit em, whatever youre trying to get done, they wont do it. Lets look at North Korea. North Korea is the third party here. What does Trump want? Trump wants North Korea silenced, shut down, stopped, what have you, without having to fire a shot. Trump thinks that the ChiComs can do it.
But theyre not gonna do it just because you ask them to. Theyre not gonna do it if you try to leverage them into doing it. Theyre not gonna Whether the Norks are their allies or not, the ChiComs are not gonna do anybody a favor to make the world safer or anything else. Theyre not just gonna do a favor. Theres got to be something in it for em before theyll do anything like that. And so you have to come up with something that benefits the ChiComs that also accomplishes something that you want.
You have to come up with something that once its done and over with, the Chinese can run around say they won or they got a great benefit or what have you. So what was the benefit? The benefit that Trump established with the ChiComs was acknowledged and favorable trade outcomes. Remember, Trump began negotiating with the ChiComs during the campaign. He laid down the law. He told the ChiComs that theyre cheaters. He told the ChiComs theyve been running roughshod over the United States and those days are gonna end.
When Trumps in the White House, the ChiComs arent gonna get away with this because the days of stupid Americans are gonna be over and he focused on trade. Remember, everybody was saying, Why so much focus on trade? Whats the big deal? NAFTA here every day, trade? Cause thats where Trump was gonna go to get what he needed out of the ChiComs. So after two years of publicly threatening the ChiComs with tariffs and all kinds of frozen trade opportunities, the North Korean situation presented an option, and it was used.
Trump was able to propose normalizing trade arrangements that were beneficial to the ChiComs, not as beneficial as they had been. It was a far different Trump from what was on the campaign. He appeared to be giving up significant ground when he hadnt at all. Hed been asking for much more than he was ever gonna ask for during the campaign. In exchange for this new Trump, this reasonable Trump that was proposing normalized trade relationships and agreements, Trump secured an agreement from the ChiComs to deal with the North Koreans a little bit more strictly or beneficially to the world and America than they had been predisposed to.
I dont know what the final result of all they was, but I know what the objective was. The objective was for Trump to lean on Xi Jinping to essentially eliminate the North Korean threat. But theyre not gonna do that just because you ask em. They certainly not gonna do it if you demand it. Theyre certainly not gonna do it to make the world safe or anything. They dont care about that. All they care about is when its all over being able to say they won or that whatever happened, they benefited from and if friendship is your objective, youre never gonna pull things like that off.
But respect is a whole different thing, and that is what Trump was saying in that bite with the media on the trip to Air Force One back to the United States. One little semi-related story. You heard about the three UCLA basketball players that were also in China? Theyre being held in jail for shoplifting? All during the weekend, the stories about this were dire, that Trump the American State Department was not phone succeed in getting these guys out of prison or out of jail or what have you.
The ChiComs wanted to drop the hammer. You dont do this. You dont come over and shoplift from them. They jail Chinese citizens who do it. Well, after the conversation that Trump had with Xi Jinping, this guy who has amassed Mao-style power now Hes the most powerful ChiCom leader since Mao Tse-tung or, Im sorry, Mao Zedong. (They change the guys name pronunciation frequently.) Everything Trump had his personal conversation with Xi Jinping, these basketball players are going to be returned to the U.S. after having been detained by the ChiComs for shoplifting.
Three UCLA basketball players arrested in China for allegedly shoplifting while their team was in the country for a tournament last week have been released and were flying back home today. Trump did it. Now, you might say, Trump didnt do it. The ChiComs made a big show out of holding em, but they were always gonna let em go. Really? You know that? Im just telling you, this trip that Trump has finished and is now on the way home from was a killer economic and foreign policy trip.
Youre not gonna hear about it. The Drive-Bys may themselves not even know. I mean, they had some reporters on the trip, but this stuff isnt gonna be reported as it actually happened. The last thing that can happen is Trump be given credit for anything. About all youre gonna know about this trip is that Trump shook hands with Putin and that Putin looked like he owned Trump and that Putin looked like Trump was just a little puppy dog almost embarrassed to be in Putins presence, cause Trump knows that Putin is so much smarter and so much tougher.
Thats about all youre gonna hear about what happened on the trip.
But dont doubt me: It was a great success.
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RUSH: Were gonna start in Los Angeles with Eddie. Im glad you called, sir. Welcome. Its great to have you with us.
CALLER: Maha Rushie, you are the godhead.
RUSH: Thank you, I appreciate that.
CALLER: Rush, I want to say I used to license movies to China, Japan, Korea, and then I negotiated for a Japanese company, and you are, you know, right on the money, that the Chinese are master negotiators. They always say yes even when they say no. Theyre always smiling, shaking their head, you feel very comfortable dealing with them. And they give very, very little in the negotiation, and youre happy to get a deal from them and then you realize, Huh? What happened?
RUSH: Well, what you have to realize any time youre gonna deal with them is that whatever the end is, it has to be something they can say to everybody else and themselves that they won it, that they won the negotiation. If there is mutual benefit in the deal, the mutual benefit has to greatly benefit them far greater than the other participants in the deal.
The point is that the Chinese do not approach these things like westerners do. The dont start out with throwaways. Lets put it that way. A common negotiating technique in the United States, lets say youre in negotiations for a new employment contract where you work. And you want $25 million and access to a King Air, you know, prop jet airplane. But instead you go and ask for $50 million and a Boeing 727 or a Boeing 737 knowing full well youre not gonna get it, those are throwaways.
You build in things that you really dont think youre gonna get and you dont really want, you can throw them away to look like you are negotiating, to look like you are giving something up. ChiComs dont do that. They just tell you whats gonna be, what is. You have to know them going in to deal with them this way. And they dont respond to your throwaways. They know full well look, its cultural mind-set differences.
The definition of a successful negotiation here is where both sides give something up and maybe neither side is really totally happy, but thats a great deal. Not to them. Theyre not happy giving anything up. Snerdley asks, How do you get stuff out of em? You have to be able, when its all over, the negotiations, whatever youre doing with the Chinese, at the end of it, whatever happens, they have to be able to say the benefit to them is undeniable.
So in the case of Trump, North Korea is the elephant in the room. Trump wants help from Xi Jinping on neutralizing whats-his-face, Kim Jong-un. But Xi Jinpings got no interest in doing that for the sake of humanity, for the betterment of the world. If getting rid of the North Koreans doesnt benefit the Chinese, to hell with it. He doesnt care about the instability of the world except as it might affect China. So thats the key. So you have to appeal to the Chinese on the basis that, Look, I want to make a new trade deal with you.
Now, remember, Trump started out on the campaign trail telling us hes gonna be tough. The ChiComs have been getting away with murder cause Americans are so stupid, but those days are over. The free ride of the Chinese is over. So theyve been hearing that for two years. So theyre expecting Trump to come in and strip everything away, take away all the benefits they have, all the advantages. He didnt do that. He gave em favorable trade deals but they have to help us with Kim Jong-un. So neutralizing Kim Jong-un then equals a benefit for the ChiComs. Look , its far more complicated than this. Im trying to tell you this in 20 seconds. Which I did, by the way.
What a difference.
The ChiComs made Obama go out the back of the plane like a dog.
A Potus who understands China better than any other.
What will eternally gripe me, is that I would have been very happy to have a Black president if he had good values, grasped our nation, and wanted to improve it.
What a failed opportunity.
I think this was a terrible insult to Blacks, not matter if they voted for him 100%.
Others should have known better, and saved them from themselves.
The nation let them down, big-time.
You could say they let the nation down too.
The legacy of the first Black President, is simply evil.
Trump is easily the most wily and the smartest (for America) president in my adult life of 50+ years.
What elected the socialist community organizer from south side of Chicago, was white guilt. Those whites were tired of being called racist, and thought electing the mulatto from Hawaii would stop all that. Wrong!
It wasn’t just the Chinese, but everywhere the Trumps visited have been left in awe by all of them. Whoever their political and cultural protocol chief is, they are a genius.
The latest is that Ivanka was going to give a speech in China to encourage especially female entrepreneurs. It was to have seating for 400 Chinese, and 800 Americans and those of other nationalities. 44,000 Chinese entrepreneurs applied to attend!
And their visit to Japan was an incredible event. Tens of thousands of younger women about fainted when Ivanka wore a dress designed after a kimono. It will dominate their fashion for at least the next year. Then Melania turned out in a much more conservative outfit, very much alike the dress worn by the wife of their Prime Minister, that captivated women over 40.
The trifecta was done by Hope Hicks, the communications director, who wore a cutting edge ladies tuxedo to a formal event, with perfect makeup. Instantly becoming the gold standard for business ladies attire at formal functions.
They also turned on a dime to have completely different, but equally impressive costumes when visiting Korea.
For the first time, everything the men did was eclipsed by the women. Ground breaking diplomacy.
i remember my mom and sister back in the day saying they were going to vote 0bama “to prove i am not a racist”, to which I replied if you are just voting for the man because of the color of his skin then you ARE a racist...
maybe in the end it was just that McShame was a pretty tough sell. Lord knows i bit my tongue but pulled the lever for Palin.
True story - the 'ass' of the plane.
Turd
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