" Only we …… can lock up whoever the hell we want ! "
“It’s my view that it shouldn’t really have much of an impact,” he (Lighthizer) said.
Why does this not engender a great deal of confidence on my part?
The surprise arrest raises doubts about whether the trade truce will hold and whether the world’s two biggest economies can resolve the complicated issues that divide them.
I never had any doubt as far as this issue is concerned. From the get-go, it was bupkis all the way down.
Now…see…if there had been plans for a “Beijing Tower” in the offing, all of these inconveniences could have been avoided. Trademarks just don’t cut it these days.
China is really feeling it these days. A public backdown to them on the world stage would be disastrous.
Wait — We have a US Ambassador to China?
Wait again — He’s an Individual-1 supporter whose only qualification is that he was the longtime governor of Iowa and thus knows something about soybeans, who complains about the free press, and whose son traded on his ties to Trump to get business in China. So about what you would expect.
just more winning, this time fer sure
Why on earth, other than ignorance, would anybody poke the bear and provoke him? China has been island grabbing and has some tiny nations surrounded to the point where Australia is pushing back. They will just get bolder in defiance to what Trump does. Trump and the low life crew that he call his administration is playing with fire. He’ll get burned.
I doubt this is Trump’s move. Trump’s ambassadors, as with the case of CEU in Hungary, are more impressed with the corrupt officials who wine and dine them. Taking on a Huaiwei princeling (princessling?) seems to me not a battle conjured up by Bolton or Navarro. Interesting as it comes just as Peter Ho was sentenced under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
But U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” downplayed the impact of the arrest on trade talks between the two countries aimed at defusing the tensions.
“It’s my view that it shouldn’t really have much of an impact,” he said.
A Trump administration official says there is a plan for the United States to seek Meng’s extradition. The view among some officials is that she could be used as leverage with China in trade talks.
[Though][1]…
"They are two separate events," Mr Navarro told CNN on Friday, adding that the timing was just a coincidence.
let’s see what happens
[1]: Huawei arrest 'separate' from US-China trade talks, says Navarro
Wow. We are taking hostages now. This is serious. Maybe China should arrest Mark Zuckerberg.
I’m surprised we have an ambassador to China.
Though Navarro said no, gotta wonder how does this situation end?
Yeh, that denial doesn’t mean anything, but if so, that’ll be on the account of a Trump tweet proving the CNN story was right.
Terry should have stayed in Iowa. The cows and pigs don’t give one headaches.
Let’s make it explicit that the reporting on this is calling china an obviously corrupt corporate-owned state. Which the US at the moment merely aspires to be under trump.
We’re gonna need a bigger chocolate cake.
[Quote] The U.S. alleges that Huawei used a Hong Kong shell company to sell equipment in Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.[/Quote] Would these be the same sanctions the US unilaterally implemented after withdrawing from a treaty that most independent observers say Iran was complying with?
China continues to honor the agreement with Iran, Meng is a Chinese national. I don’t see a legal case here.
Good question. From the pace these things usually go at, it could also be pre-agreement sanctions. They refer to a fake spinoff in 2009.