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Skans » 13 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

13 minutes ago

Xi is playing the long game.  The only problem is that he will have at least 4 years of Trump to get through.  I don't see Xi making a deal with Trump.  Xi doesn't care much about China's citizens suffering. In fact, he expects it of them.

The only way for Trump to win this against China and get a deal is to:

• Figure out what he wants most from China and stand firm on that. Maybe farm or auto exports, and get China out of the Panama Canal
• Give in on a bunch of other stuff that China won't back down from.
• Keep tariffs on China at 15%.

Then, do everything in his power to move Taiwan Semicondocutor, Foxconn and pharmaceutical manufacturing to the United States.