Is Trump Looking for a Grand Bargain With China?
Posted By: Mercedes44, 12/24/2024 5:29:31 AM
[T]rying to reach a grand bargain with China — what [Trump] was hinting at — would be exactly the wrong approach at this or any other moment. Trump has already tried to reach an accommodation with China: his Phase One Trade pact of January 2020. He calls it "the best trade deal" ever, but it is now widely viewed as a bust. The Chinese, during an election year in America, never honored its terms. [Chinese President Xi Jinping's] actions are the inevitable result of China's communist political system, which idealizes violence, struggle, and domination. This system means there can be no accommodation with the Communist Party.
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Tren de Aragua gangbanger dressed in drag
to evade cops after brutal kidnapping
in Denver suburb 3 replies
to evade cops after brutal kidnapping
in Denver suburb 3 replies
This migrant gangbanger flipped his wig.
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Why did no one help her? Fatal subway
burning exposes New York City’s sad
disconnect to humanity 17 replies
burning exposes New York City’s sad
disconnect to humanity 17 replies
No one helped.
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G.N.Miller/NYPost
Then there was Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, the animal charged with lighting the match that set the innocent subway rider on fire — thus igniting a hellscape that feels like a metaphor for New York City’s decaying underground.
The footage itself is a dystopian horror show:
[T]rying to reach a grand bargain with China — what [Trump] was hinting at — would be exactly the wrong approach at this or any other moment.
Trump has already tried to reach an accommodation with China: his Phase One Trade pact of January 2020. He calls it "the best trade deal" ever, but it is now widely viewed as a bust. The Chinese, during an election year in America, never honored its terms.
[Chinese President Xi Jinping's] actions are the inevitable result of China's communist political system, which idealizes violence, struggle, and domination. This system means there can be no accommodation with the Communist Party.
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‘Death penalty is racist’ 22 replies
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Why did no one help her? Fatal subway
burning exposes New York City’s sad
disconnect to humanity 17 replies
burning exposes New York City’s sad
disconnect to humanity 17 replies
No one helped.
The bystanders were too busy filming. The cops? Well, instead of wrapping their jackets around a burning woman in an F train stopped at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station on Sunday morning, they walked by.Sebastian Zapeta-Calil was charged with murder for allegedly setting a sleeping straphanger on fire in Brooklyn.
G.N.Miller/NYPost
Then there was Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, the animal charged with lighting the match that set the innocent subway rider on fire — thus igniting a hellscape that feels like a metaphor for New York City’s decaying underground.
The footage itself is a dystopian horror show:
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