Scott Bessant had all along been commenting, almost on the verge of tears, that it is up to China to de-escalate. Did China start the tariff war? No! All China now wants is for the USA to remove those tariffs before talks can proceed. I hope China does not relent on its stand in Switzerland. If that condition is not fulfilled, I think the talks will be fruitless.
Scott Bessant did not answer the question of who called who for the meeting. He has no cards to play and no room to lie anymore. If he claims that China called to set up the meeting, he is bound to face the consequences from the Chinese side, who may not want to talk to him in Switzerland by lying. Neither can he tell everyone that it is the USA that called China first. Trump is trying to be tough by saying that he is not going to reduce the tariffs against China. Trying to pretend to be negotiating in a position of strength has never worked against China. How is that going to have any chance of success at the talks in Switzerland is something I am beginning to wonder?
The story told by Scott Bessant was that the Chinese were in Switzerland, probably building bridges as usual and the USA heard about it. How co-incidental that the USA was also going to Switzerland, the right place and the right time to meet the Chinese. Think about it!
This claim of the USA meeting the Chinese for the 'first time' blew away all the lies by Trump and his administration over the weeks, claiming that they were talking to the Chinese. The Chinese categorically denied such talks ever happened. Now, who had been lying all along is not hard to figure out.
That also brings into focus the claim that 200 countries out of 195 in the world are queuing up to kiss Trump's arse according to the administration. Sometime lying has to have some semblance of credibility, and the 200 countries plucked from the air tells the whole story of how blatant the USA can lie. Scott Bessant also revealed a pertinent point about the most important country missing from the queue - China is not looking to negotiate.
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After all the gloating about negotiations with 200 countries, it now dawns that the only country that succeeded in negotiations was the UK. In other words, no other success came before this, and this is being gloated to high heaven. The UK in any case is expected to fall on its knees to kiss Trump's arse all along and this is not a surprise, The UK is the lapdog of the USA and has to set an example for others to please its master.
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