Trump's trade negotiations: America first, but not America alone.....

washingtonexaminer ^ | 6/8/2018 | Steve Cortes

[caww]

Kudlow also reassured skeptics, both in Washington and on Wall Street, that the president does not seek protracted trade confrontation. Trade should be a rising tide that benefits the whole world. When the rules are fair and the playing field level, America can compete and win against anyone. Our productivity, innovation, scale, and culture all point to a second economic “American Century” for decades to come. But Trump recognizes that America’s benevolence has been abused. For too long, presidents of both parties have ignored the lack of reciprocity and the outright theft of American intellectual property by other nations.

The harsh reality is that America has been in a trade war for decades, and one we were losing. Trump now smartly demands symmetry in our trade deals and a fair shake for American workers.

America First does mean that President Trump requires that America be treated fairly economically and that wealthy nations like South Korea take the primary role in their own security. Such beliefs are not exclusive, of course, to the U.S., as evidenced by popular political movements in Britain, Italy, and elsewhere. When nations intelligently pursue their own self-interest, rather than cater to multilateral globalist agendas, the world becomes safer and more prosperous, as President Trump already proves, only 500 days into his presidency.

[BeauBo]

“Trump recognizes that America’s benevolence has been abused.”

The rest of the world is not going to just volunteer to give up the one-sided, sweetheart deals that they currently enjoy. America will have to make them.

Thank God that we finally have someone who will assert America’s interests, instead of taking a personal payoff to sell us out.

[vette6387]

” When the rules are fair and the playing field level, America can compete and win against anyone.”

Ya see, that’s the problem, the rest of the world can’t compete on a level playing field. Basically, since at least the end of WWII, the American Taxpayer has been “funding the rest of the world,” and they’ve been forced to do it by their own government.

[caww]

....”Ya see, that’s the problem, the rest of the world can’t compete on a level playing field”....

Sure they can...WWII was a long time ago. Now it’s time to stop milking this country and take care of their own. The rants are like troubled teenagers who still want to live in their parents basements and you’ve told them time to move out.

[caww]

It’s going to get interesting to be sure! But then I do consider things to come and we will not be so quick to come to nations rescue as they’ve always been used to.