Trump smearing and belittling Xi and thinks he can get a good deal

 After getting his phone answered and allowed to chat with Xi, Trump again returned to his gangster antics and behaviour and starting to spread lies about Xi. Without admitting that he had been begging to talk to Xi for months and with the door slammed at his face, and finally given a chance to talk to Xi, he started to tell the world and his American followers that he is one up on Xi.

Xi has succumbed to his threats and reckless tariffs and sanctions and bans and agreed to sell rare earth to the Americans without condition. Xi has lost and gave in to Emperor Trump. Is that true, that Xi has no more card to play and caving in to rogue Trump? Giving Trump whatever Trump wanted without a fight, without asking for anything in return. This is rogue Trump and his gangster way. And he always wins.

 Not only that, after slamming China with hundreds of tariffs, bans, sanctions, cancelling passes of Chinese students, forcing them to terminate their studies halfway, threatening to go to war over Taiwan, Trump also claimed that Xi has to invite him to Beijing like a lame duck. Xi has capitulated and has to be very nice to rogue Trump, has to entertain and flatter him, kiss his ass in Beijing after being whacked left, right and centre by Trump.

This is how Trump is telling the Americans and the world, that he won, Xi lost. Is this the truth?

How would Xi react to such lies to make him look weak, like a loser, to humiliate him, to make him look bad to the Chinese people and the world? Trump still thinks such low down tactics would win his trade deals.

The meetings in Geneva and in London say it. Xi is not going to Washington to kiss Trump's ass. Would Xi invite a rogue, a gangster that embarrassed him so many times to Beijing again and waste taxpayers' money to make Trump look like an Emperor in China?

Attacking students is the most low down despicable act of an irresponsible gangster

 Going after foreign students is the most despicable act of the Trump regime. What are students? They are the young people trying to get an education. Their parents worked very hard and saved all the money needed to send them to good foreign universities in the USA for them to get an education. Many are very young and innocent, just want to get a good education, a good degree, grow up and get a good job, get a good life, feed the family.

Trump is now throwing the national security lie to target the students, claiming that they are a national security threat to the Americans. With a stroke of the pen, after having a bad night, rogue Trump is destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands of students, their dreams and the hopes of their parents in their children. Many lives will be destroyed, thrown into topsy turvy by this unthinking irresponsible rogue and his rogue regime.

What crimes can the students commit? How many are really guilty of such fabricated crimes by the gangsters and liars in Washington? What is this rogue Trump trying to achieve? Protecting the national security of America by curtailing the education of students halfway and sending them home? This is a crime against the young and against their parents.

The use of national security to destroy lives and hopes is vicious, cruel and totally irresponsible. Only brainless, unethical gangsters and thugs can come up with such a horrific crime against the young. And as usual, no condemnation from the equally evil pro American camp, the Anglophiles. The rogue regime is always right, commits no wrong. Attacking students, to deprive them of a good education, to smash their young dreams and aspiration is acceptable to the rogues and gangsters.

This is how cruel and ruthless the American terrorists and gangsters have become. Totally lawless and vile. Guilty without the need of proof, no right of self defence. The rogue regime is the judge, jury and executor. American democracy, human rights, rule of law? It is rule of the lawless, rule of thugs and gangsters.

USA will probably bring itself down before it could start a war with China

Before that happens, USA will probably bring itself down. Civil war is breaking out now, with Los Angeles probably the tipping point. China could be saved the problem of fighting the USA. Heaven could be on the side of the downtrodden.

War has been on the cards for years, even since the Obama period. There had been talk of the window closing for taking on China and that the USA must act fast. China knows there is no way to avoid that and over the last decades has been preparing itself for the inevitable. Now, China is confident enough to say that China is prepared and ready for any war with the USA.

With its control of rare earth elements, that is a massive advantage in the hands of China, knowing that all kinds of weapons are dependent on rare earth. The ban on rare earth exports to the USA has touched a raw nerve, with the USA realizing that it has no cards to play with weapon manufacturing. So desperate is the situation for the USA that is looking high and low for rare earth resources that still needs the refining logistics found in China. Using the UK and South Korea to go under the Chinese radar has been exposed. That lifeline is no more. China is even watching the possibility of India doing the same as UK and South Korea and has taken steps to increase more intense vetting measures regarding its export of rare earth.

Which is why Trump is livid that China did not relax its grip on rare earth exports. There have not been real negotiations on details in Switzerland other than agreeing to further progress in talks, and yet Trump is already accusing China of breaking the agreement in Switzerland. That shows how desperate the USA is regarding the availability of rare earth now.


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China must never put the rare earth ban against the USA on the negotiating table as it will be suicidal

China must never put the rare earth ban against the USA on the negotiating table as it will be suicidal. Relaxing the ban will allow a loophole for the USA to stockpile and be able to make more weapons by also negotiating a truce in the trade and tariff battle, to give them the time to continue with weapons production and eventually using such weapons to target China. The targeting of China will be a relentless pursuit of the USA, no matter which party is in the White House. China must be absolutely clear about the USA's intention, even when Xi is no longer around.

Further, China must guard against other USA allies trying to circumvent the ban by using loopholes to resell such rare earths to the USA under the radar. The UK and South Korea had been caught doing so. India is also another target for the USA to source for Chinese rare earth elements. The new vetting system put up by China is going to affect India's intention to set up an AI and EV hub, which China must watch carefully and calculate how much rare earth elements India actually needs.

Trade war or tariff war, China has many cards to play with in the game of retaliation. The USA had tried insidiously to circumvent the trade war by falsifying country of origin of its soya beans as being from Argentina and Brazil which were discovered by the Chinese after analyzing its protein content. The soya bean falsification game is now up, and USA farmers have no more cards to play with. The USA agriculture sector is dying out and food security is going to be a problem for the USA.

The battle is still ongoing in the semiconductor sector, with China catching up in the high-end sector as well. Even Jensen Huang is nervous and is forced to set up a R & D unit in China, knowing this is the only way for Nvidia to fight the battle. The USA can erect more hurdles to keep countries from using Huawei chips, but the Chinese chip market is enough for Huawei to play around.


Anonymous

USA losing its plot and support of the international community

USA ambition must be supported by the global community's willingness to toe the USA agenda. That is falling apart after the tariff war erupted. It is a war against every country around the world, not just against China, which was the prime reason for the failure in its ambition.

The mantra of forcing manufacturing back to the USA is not the real reason of those tariffs and plays second fiddle to the ambition of containing China at all costs. Manufacturing cannot survive the cost of being done in the USA for anything under the sun. The real motive of targeting every country is to curtail China's investments all around the world, therefore needing to erect tariffs against everyone is a self-defeating act.

The harm has already been done, and it will be difficult to reverse, if not impossible. Countries are finding new avenues to trade with each other, avoiding the USA. Chinese manufacturing is already migrating markets to the global south, with new markets forged like the China/GCC/ASEAN agreements being put into place. In the meantime, what is the USA doing? Demonizing China using the Shangri-la platform and still flogging the dead horse that does nothing to promote new markets and support for the USA's economy.


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