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2020-08-24 China-Japan-Koreas
Trump Says US Could ‘Decouple’ and Not Do Business With China
[NTD] President Donald Trump, in a Fox News interview airing Sunday, raised the possibility of decoupling the U.S. economy from China, a major purchaser of U.S. goods.

In a video excerpt, Trump initially told interviewer Steve Hilton “we don’t have to” do business with China, and then later said about decoupling, “Well it’s something that if they don’t treat us right I would certainly, I would certainly do that.”

Trump entered into a high-stakes trade war with China before reaching a partial Phase 1 trade deal in January. Trump has since shut the door on Phase 2 negotiations, saying he was unhappy with Beijing’s handling of the pandemic.

In June U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said a decoupling of the U.S. and Chinese economies will result if U.S. companies are not allowed to compete on a fair and level basis in China’s economy.
Posted by 3dc 2020-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
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#1 President Donald Trump, in a Fox News interview airing Sunday, raised the possibility of decoupling the U.S. economy from China, a major purchaser of U.S. goods.

I'm sure the EU would step in to fill the gap.
Posted by gorb 2020-08-24 02:05||   2020-08-24 02:05|| Front Page Top

#2 The EU is unable to slump into any gap.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-08-24 04:28||   2020-08-24 04:28|| Front Page Top

#3 'Decouple' now and be done with them. Let the smarmy box stores find new, domestic, or friendly nation produced products.

Oh wait! Who'll buy our government bonds and debt? We can't stop now, they OWN US !
Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-24 04:35||   2020-08-24 04:35|| Front Page Top

#4 They funded our money printing with their money printing. Not going to end well all the way around.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-24 05:46||   2020-08-24 05:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Please. Our business is keeping their military growing.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-08-24 08:55||   2020-08-24 08:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Built from US scrap iron in the 1930's. They had virtually no domestic iron ore. The cycle of greed continues, then conflict. Rinse, repeat.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-24 09:02||   2020-08-24 09:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Baloney (as stockholders/CEOs of Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc., etc., squirm).
Posted by Clem 2020-08-24 09:04||   2020-08-24 09:04|| Front Page Top

#8 A decoupling at a time when China is facing severe food shortages would be a disaster for Beijing. In expectation that the USA is fed up, watch Chinese food purchases in the USA over the next six weeks or so. They should explode.
Posted by b 2020-08-24 09:17||   2020-08-24 09:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't say it. Do it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-08-24 11:33||   2020-08-24 11:33|| Front Page Top

#10 If China really has been shipping BLM/Antifa weapons, along with providing training out of the Houston embassy. we can expect an explosion from their proxies immediately following any decoupling announcement. Unless what we are seeing now is that explosion in concert with Democratic Party proxies.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-24 14:32||   2020-08-24 14:32|| Front Page Top

#11 never should have gotten in bed with them in the first place : China is Asshole
Posted by 746 2020-08-24 15:46||   2020-08-24 15:46|| Front Page Top

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