Posted on 04/18/2020 9:07:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that he would re-evaluate the United States’s relationship with China after the outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus.
“Our relationship with China was good until they did this. Look, we just made a trade deal with China to buy $250 billion a year our products, $40 to $50 billion from the farmers. Then all of a sudden you heard about this,” he told the press during a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing.
“The question was asked: Would you be angry at China? The answer might be a very well resounding ‘Yes.’
“But it depends. Was it a mistake that got out of control? Or was it done deliberately? In either event, they should have let us go in.
“We asked to go in very early and they would not let us in,” Trump said.
It’s not clear if Trump was referring to the the origin of the CCP virus or the regime’s lack of transparency about infections and deaths.
There are theories circulating that the virus may be connected to a biologic laboratory in Wuhan—the epicenter of the outbreak.
The United States is not the only country that has suggested it will review its relationship with the Chinese communist regime.
On Thursday, the UK foreign secretary and acting Prime Minister Dominic Raab said that the Britain’s relationship with Beijing will no longer be “business as usual” after the COVID-19 pandemic is over.
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Glad Trump isn't like a lot of folks here...he gets his sock packed proper and then takes proper action at the proper time...
These people are filthy duplicitous snakes.
We shouldn’t be dealing with them.
I wish the entire country disappeared
TEAR UP TRADE AGREEMENT BANKRUPT THEM TO THE STONE AGE!
KERRY, BIDEN’S PELOSI, SCHUMER, SQUAD ANYTHING WITH A D INCLUDING ROMNEY TYPES.
Stop buying Chinese sourced products, where possible.
Absolutely.
There's no "probably" about it.
China prohibited travel from Wuhan to anywhere inside China.
China allowed flights out of Wuhan to every other part of the world.
It was INTENTIONAL. No doubt about it. Every Chinese citizen that traveled outside Wuhan to other parts of the world was a walking bio-terrorist.
Zero doubt about that.
First we need to deal with out own Free Traitors™. We need a huge protective import tariff. NOW! That is all we need to do to stop Free Traitors™ dead cold in their greedy Anti American tracks.
Why we need protective tariff NOW! Stop ALL immigration NOW!
LOL! A tariff does not shut trade down. How blessed stupid are some of you. A trade embargo is a shut down and NOBODY is asking for that. LEARN the difference.
A tariff would pay for that.
That and end ALL wage killing LEGAL immigration.
Basically, yes. He's telling them that they are either stupid or evil.
Move the our huge naval base at Yokosuka Japan to Taiwan.
Slanderous antiRepublican drivel is not welcome here
Who said anything about a tariff? There are people saying we should stop all trade with China and I was pointing out the stupidity of that.
Oh really?
He may claim Xi is his friend but he knows the CCP is his enemy and ours.
Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a club. Whoever says Trump does not understand diplomacy is a fool.
Except the media leverages “TRUMP KILLED GRANNY” and Biden gets in with the sympathy vote. Not a great idea.
You would also lose all the people with chronic diseases on maintenance medication and a lot of the severe asthmatics, and those aren’t all old people. Spooling up pharmaceutical production in other countries to the degree that they can take up the slack, even ones already making medications, is going to take time.
Before Xi, Deng was taking China toward freedom and capitalism. Xi stopped that foolishness, hardline communist that he is. Xi redirected the country back toward hardcore communism.
Xi is a true believer...and Trump knows it.
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