1st meeting of China-US economic and trade consultation mechanism in London achieves new progress in addressing each other's concerns

Yeah at least demand they stop the public war-mongering.

They're still going to go to war with China but China should try to force the issue and say no more public statements of an openly aggressively hostile nature, at least be oblique about it. The US would never go for that though as they need public support and to build that idea in the mind early but it seems an easy issue to play hardball on. To kind of point out that China doesn't even talk of invading or warring with the US yet they still slap restrictions on any company that uses the same catering business as the Chinese military for being military affiliated. Like they can't have it both ways where it's fair to sanction and try to strangle anyone even tangentially connected to the Chinese military because they have to be weakened but at the same time can openly demand access to materials used to build weapons that they're stating openly they intend to use on China in a coming war.

Unless there's some secret aspect of this agreement it certainly feels foolish on China's part.

I mean:

Trump indicated the U.S. would impose 55 percent tariffs on Chinese goods, while China would impose a 10 percent tariff on U.S. products.

That's caving. 55 percent makes Chinese products noncompetitive and unaffordable for Americans. Might as well agree to help pack up some of the factories and equipment and ship it to India for the US as well because that's the effect of this. It forces reshoring or friendshoring far more effectively than the Democratic grift of handing out money. For small goods it might not matter but iPhones, computers, computer parts, televisions. People can't afford to pay 55% more on a $1,000 purchase so it forces these companies to move production to India and other countries and once they start doing that there's no reason to keep separate lines open in China just for European markets or something.

They better have gotten at least a secret agreement that Tiktok can stay, doesn't have to sell its business, doesn't have to sell or reveal its algorithm, etc. Otherwise China is really getting a bad deal here and being bullied.

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The Americans will just backstab them anyway for an excuse to start a war in the future.
- Hmmm today I will resume selling metals used for building high tech weapons of war to the country that has stated multiple times they will invade me
  
  Yeah at least demand they stop the public war-mongering.
  They're still going to go to war with China but China should try to force the issue and say no more public statements of an openly aggressively hostile nature, at least be oblique about it. The US would never go for that though as they need public support and to build that idea in the mind early but it seems an easy issue to play hardball on. To kind of point out that China doesn't even talk of invading or warring with the US yet they still slap restrictions on any company that uses the same catering business as the Chinese military for being military affiliated. Like they can't have it both ways where it's fair to sanction and try to strangle anyone even tangentially connected to the Chinese military because they have to be weakened but at the same time can openly demand access to materials used to build weapons that they're stating openly they intend to use on China in a coming war.
  Unless there's some secret aspect of this agreement it certainly feels foolish on China's part.
  I mean:
  Trump indicated the U.S. would impose 55 percent tariffs on Chinese goods, while China would impose a 10 percent tariff on U.S. products.
  That's caving. 55 percent makes Chinese products noncompetitive and unaffordable for Americans. Might as well agree to help pack up some of the factories and equipment and ship it to India for the US as well because that's the effect of this. It forces reshoring or friendshoring far more effectively than the Democratic grift of handing out money. For small goods it might not matter but iPhones, computers, computer parts, televisions. People can't afford to pay 55% more on a $1,000 purchase so it forces these companies to move production to India and other countries and once they start doing that there's no reason to keep separate lines open in China just for European markets or something.
  They better have gotten at least a secret agreement that Tiktok can stay, doesn't have to sell its business, doesn't have to sell or reveal its algorithm, etc. Otherwise China is really getting a bad deal here and being bullied.
So fuckin pointless