Trump China visit: US leader strikes warmer tone with Xi Jinping

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US President Donald Trump has lavished praise on Chinese leader Xi Jinping, a marked contrast to his previous criticism of China on the flashpoint issues of North Korea and trade.

But he also urged Mr Xi to "work very hard" on persuading North Korea to denuclearise.

On China's trade surplus, Mr Trump surprised many when he said he did "not blame China" for "taking advantage".

China has said it will lower market entry barriers to some sectors.

The US president was speaking in Beijing while on a state visit.

He is in the Chinese capital as part of his five-nation tour of Asia. The two leaders held talks earlier on Thursday after a grand welcome for Mr Trump.

China will further lower entry barriers in the banking, insurance, and finance sectors, and gradually reduce vehicle tariffs, the Chinese foreign ministry said.

Deals worth $250bn (£190bn) have also been announced, although it is unclear how much of that figure is past deals being re-announced or simply potential future deals.

Discussion on how to deal with North Korea's threats to the region has dominated Mr Trump's agenda, and China is Pyongyang's main economic supporter.

Mr Trump said China could fix the problem of North Korea's nuclear programme "easily and quickly".

He added: "I am calling on [Mr Xi] to work very hard. I know one thing about your president. If he works on it hard, it'll get done."

Mr Xi, for his part, said both sides would "continue to work towards" fully implementing UN sanctions and "enduring peace" on the Korean peninsula.

Mr Trump has previously been more critical and tweeted in July that Beijing was doing "NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk".

Just before his arrival in Beijing he urged China to sever ties with the North. Beijing has consistently said it is doing all it can.
He swerved away from blaming China for the trade deficit

"I don't blame China - after all, who can blame a country for taking advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens... I give China great credit," said Mr Trump while addressing a room of business leaders.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-41924228
Instead, the US leader said previous US administrations were responsible for what he called "a very unfair and one-sided" trade relationship with China.
 
This is Trump to a t. It's like when he met w/ Obama & heaped praise on him, and then ridiculed him after he left.

He has no integrity. Nothing he says is credible.
 
noise said:
US President Donald Trump has lavished praise on Chinese leader Xi Jinping, a marked contrast to his previous criticism of China on the flashpoint issues of North Korea and trade.

But he also urged Mr Xi to "work very hard" on persuading North Korea to denuclearise.

On China's trade surplus, Mr Trump surprised many when he said he did "not blame China" for "taking advantage".

China has said it will lower market entry barriers to some sectors.

The US president was speaking in Beijing while on a state visit.

He is in the Chinese capital as part of his five-nation tour of Asia. The two leaders held talks earlier on Thursday after a grand welcome for Mr Trump.

China will further lower entry barriers in the banking, insurance, and finance sectors, and gradually reduce vehicle tariffs, the Chinese foreign ministry said.

Deals worth $250bn (£190bn) have also been announced, although it is unclear how much of that figure is past deals being re-announced or simply potential future deals.

Discussion on how to deal with North Korea's threats to the region has dominated Mr Trump's agenda, and China is Pyongyang's main economic supporter.

Mr Trump said China could fix the problem of North Korea's nuclear programme "easily and quickly".

He added: "I am calling on [Mr Xi] to work very hard. I know one thing about your president. If he works on it hard, it'll get done."

Mr Xi, for his part, said both sides would "continue to work towards" fully implementing UN sanctions and "enduring peace" on the Korean peninsula.

Mr Trump has previously been more critical and tweeted in July that Beijing was doing "NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk".

Just before his arrival in Beijing he urged China to sever ties with the North. Beijing has consistently said it is doing all it can.
He swerved away from blaming China for the trade deficit

"I don't blame China - after all, who can blame a country for taking advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens... I give China great credit," said Mr Trump while addressing a room of business leaders.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-41924228
Instead, the US leader said previous US administrations were responsible for what he called "a very unfair and one-sided" trade relationship with China.
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All his talk during the primary about currency didn’t mean anything, but sensible people knew this. The Chinese showered him with pomp and he thinks they really like him, when they are playing him like a fiddle
 
So I guess this means the President is dissing the United States, overtly prasing the Country he earlier stated was hurting the US, hates America, that's the way the right wing media would frame it if he was a Democrat President
 
archives said:
So I guess this means the President is dissing the United States, overtly prasing the Country he earlier stated was hurting the US, hates America, that's the way the right wing media would frame it if he was a Democrat President
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DEMOCRATIC president
 
yes only right wing assholes use that term

so if you are a real Democratic party supporter stop using it
 
Covfefe said:
All his talk during the primary about currency didn’t mean anything, but sensible people knew this. The Chinese showered him with pomp and he thinks they really like him, when they are playing him like a fiddle
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Did the fact that trump accused China of 'taking advantage' of the U.S somehow get lost on the OP? That's praise? He starts by crying about it being unfair....even though he uses cheap Chinese steel on all of his shoddy hotels. Remember when he challenged Hillary to 'make it illegal' for him to use Chinese steel?


Praise?

"I don't blame China," Trump said during remarks to business leaders inside the Great Hall of the People. "After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for benefit of their citizens? I give China great credit."
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Althea said:
Did the fact that trump accused China of 'taking advantage' of the U.S somehow get lost on the OP? That's praise? He starts by crying about it being unfair....even though he uses cheap Chinese steel on all of his shoddy hotels. Remember when he challenged Hillary to 'make it illegal' for him to use Chinese steel?


Praise?
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Yes, I wonder how long it took the Chinese to realize it was a back handed compliment.
 
couple of things going on here..Trump needs Xi on NK..there are some new trade deals and China is lifting some barriers.
Itt's obviously much easier to criticize China from abroad as a candidate then go there as POTUS.

Trump is still criticizing the globalism, but disrupting trade hurts everyone.
US/China trade imbalances are not as problematic as say US/Mexican

the Lame Stream of course won't telly you Trump is acting like a POTUS instead of a populist candidate
but running the ship of state requires more then bomb throwing.

Kudos to Trump for pointing out the Chinese are acting like nationalists ( in their own best interests) -
we are now doing the same
 
hahahahahahahahahahahaha

they all know he is about to be kicked out of office you idiots


they are just toying with him
 
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LIKE A BOSS​




Watched by Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping at a signing ceremony in Beijing, U.S. planemaker Boeing Co, General Electric Co and chip giant Qualcomm Inc sealed lucrative multi-billion dollar deals.

Speaking alongside Trump in Beijing as they announced the deals, Xi said the Chinese economy would become increasingly open and transparent to firms from the United States, and welcomed U.S. companies to participate in his ambitious “Belt and Road” infrastructure-led initiative.

Trump made clear he blamed his predecessors for allowing the U.s. trade deficit to get “out of kilter.”

“This is truly a miracle,” China’s Commerce Minister Zhong Shan said at a briefing in Beijing.

The quarter of a trillion dollar haul underscores how Trump will address a trade deficit with the world’s second-largest economy that he has long railed against and called “shockingly high” on Thursday.

William Zarit, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, said the deals pointed to “a strong, vibrant bilateral economic relationship” between the two countries.

Some huge deals were announced. Among them is a 20-year $83.7 billion investment by China Energy Investment Corp in shale gas developments and chemical manufacturing projects in West Virginia, a major energy producing state that voted heavily for Trump in the 2016 election.

It marks the first major overseas investment for the newly founded China Energy, which formed from the merger of China Shenhua Group, the country’s largest coal producer and China Guodian Corp, one of China’s top five utilities.

Boeing announced a deal with state-run China Aviation Suppliers Holding Co to sell 300 Boeing jets with a valuation of $37 billion at list prices.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-asia-china-deals/trumps-250-billion-china-miracle-adds-gloss-to-off-kilter-trade-idUSKBN1D90L2
 
Chinese, US 'unequivocal' on rejecting nuke-armed North Korea: Tillerson
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/chinese-u...rth-korea-095003469--abc-news-topstories.html
ecretary of State Rex Tillerson said talks here between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping forged an "unequivocal" agreement between both countries that North Korea cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

"There is no disagreement on North Korea. We were pretty pleased by the fact that the Chinese have been really clear and unequivocal that they will not accept a North Korea with nuclear weapons," Tillerson told ABC News' Cecilia Vega in a briefing at the conclusion of the summit.

"Our efforts are complementary -– not in any way contradictory -– to bring Pyongyang to the negotiating table about how they will denuclearize their country," he said.
 
Art of the Deal in action. GEOTUS secures $250B in trade deals with China:


President Donald Trump capped his two-day summit in China Thursday with a litany of new commercial contracts for America's companies even as he continued to criticize trade relations between the world's two biggest economies.

Around $250 billion in new and existing deals between U.S. and Chinese firms were touted as they departed from the third leg of his 11-day Asia tour and celebrated the anniversary of his shock election victory last November.

Boeing, General Electric, Qualcomm, Goldman Sachs and Ford were names on the list of deals and contracts linked to the Trump visit and the broader ambitions of an economic policy he co-ordinated with China's Xi Jinping.

"Addressing the imbalance in China trade has been the central focus of collaborative discussions between President Trump and President Xi," said Trump's Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross. "Achieving fair and reciprocal treatment for the companies is a shared objective."

Boeing was perhaps the biggest recipient of what China's Commerce Minister Zhong Shan called a "miracle" of trade deals, agreeing to terms on the sale of 300 jets with a list value of around $37 billion to China Aviation Suppliers.

Another major announcement from the ceremony linked GE to three separate deals with China-based firms valued at around $3.5 billion while chipmaker Qualcomm, which is mulling a $103 billion bid from Broadcom, inked $12 billion in agreements to sell semiconductors to China-based firms Oppo, Vivo and Xiamoi over the next three years.

Ford also announced a $756 million joint venture with China's Anhui Zotye Automobile to build electric cars.

Goldman Sachs also said it would establish a $5 billion investment vehicle with China Investment Corp., the country's sovereign wealth fund.


https://www.thestreet.com/story/14383992/1/art-of-a-china-deal-trump-drums-up-250-billion-in-new-business-from-asia-tour.html
 
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