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"In his first order of the new year to the country’s armed forces, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the need for 'full-time combat readiness',” writes Liu Zhen for the South China Morning Post, "...the PLA must be ready to 'act at any second'." And a Happy New Year to you too! Now I know we Americans can beat the free world at anything from war to tiddlywinks (Meet John Doe) but we'd rather not have to prove it. Y'know what I mean? Americans are a lovely peace-loving people with a Great Peacemaker for a President. But we're also a nation...

We’re having very good talks. There’s a chance that something very exciting could happen. We’re, right now, getting a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion worth of — mostly technology… We’re getting a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion worth of goods. goes to a 25 percent $250 billion. And there’s about $267 billion that’s un-tariffed, untouched, which we’ll discuss later. MR. KUDLOW: I’ll just echo, a good deal that is enforceable — that’s so important to the United States MR. NAVARRO: I agree with you, sir. Tariffs are simple and they’re enforceable. PRESIDENT TRUMP: Right. Right. Okay. That’s all...