The US has honest to goodness gosh grievances against the Chinese that were not addressed by the Short Fingered Vulgarian's Processor. I do think the Mango Mussolini is going about it all wrong, though. I think the thing to do with the Chinese was to use back channels and fairly private communications to get the point across. His brazen diplomacy by Twitter has caused Xi Jinping to loose face, and the Chinese are all about face. He can't negotiate, he'll loose that much more face. He has little choice but to retaliate, or he'll appear weak. But in retaliating he appears strong, and it gets good internal consumption, making him that much more popular.
Xi Jinping is ruler for life, which means the only way he's going to stop being ruler is if he dies. If he appears weak those who would like to supplant him are going to try and arrange just that, and he knows it. One needs to look no farther than Libya to see the fate of dictators who loose control of their fates, and no farther than Syria to see the lengths dictators will go to to keep from losing control. I think these sorts of autocrats needs to handled carefully, something for which a Secretary of State and fully functioning Department of State can be a big help. A pity Trump savaged the latter.
I’ve always wondered why America is supposed to give two shits whether or not a communist “leader” loses face, when you and your fellow socialists live for the day when you can get Trump and other Republicans to lose face. You could see the attempted set up with Chuck and Nancy in the Oval Office. They failed miserably, because they didn’t expect Trump to take responsibility for a partial government shutdown. But it is game on, 24/7, with the democrats.
Fuck the shit horn dictators. Lose face, kill yourself, I couldn’t give two shits.
I’m SO tired of the US being told we must conform to some foreign cultural standards, when the same is not offered to us.
I’m glad Trump doesn’t give a shit either. He knows EXACTLY how to negotiate.