Trump is already lowering the bar on China tariffs blasting President Xi as ‘hard to make a deal with’

President Donald Trump appears to be lowering the bar on trade negotiations with China as he complained that President Xi Jinping is “hard to make a deal with.”

The president softened his tone in a Truth Social post shared in the early hours of Wednesday. “I like President XI of China, always have, and always will,” Trump said. “But he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!”

Last week Trump accused China of violating the terms of the agreement between the two countries. “So much for being Mr. NICE GUY!” he said.

But his latest approach comes as the president is “obsessed with having a call with Xi,” a person familiar with the talks told Politico. The leaders of the world’s two largest economies are yet to speak on the phone to thrash out a deal.

Meanwhile, a former Trump official who remains close to the White House told Politico that the president “feels like a call between principals is a way to cut through a lot of this noise, and get right to the heart of the matter.”

Obama’s assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Daniel Russel, told Politico that China “has a sharp nose for weakness, and for all his bravado, Trump is signaling eagerness, even desperation, to cut a direct deal with Xi.”

“That only stiffens Beijing’s resolve,” he added.

The trade war between the two countries has resumed after Trump accused China of violating the terms of the agreement. Beijing hit back Monday, accusing the U.S. of doing the same. The Trump administration revealed plans to revoke the visas of Chinese students and attempts to curb China’s access to the most advanced computer chips, which did not go down well.

“These practices seriously violate the consensus” of what was agreed in talks in Geneva two weeks ago, the Commerce Ministry said.

Now the talks are at somewhat of a standstill.

Trump believes he can break through to the Chinese leader, though the U.S. is trying to change a trade relationship worth $600 billion and doing so without losing too much political capital in the U.S.

The administration is “under a lot of pressure” following China’s critical minerals blockade, which blocks U.S. access to essential components in auto and electronics manufacturing as well as the production of munitions, a person familiar with the conversations told Politico.

Trump reduced tariffs on China last month from 145 percent to 30 percent.

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Flip flop from the biggest Chop

Trump begs while drooping egg

Xi has a pee

with Donnie on his knees

it hits his face

serves him right he is a disgrace.

.WTAF?

It really is close to insanity. But we never walked in those shoes and perhaps if we had it would all make sense. The luxury of treating things on their merits with just a little bit of restraint is something to be grateful for. Nobody likes a nutter.

It really is close to insanity

Ffs. say it ... he's totally batshit

Nobody likes a nutter.

Liar, you enjoyed Beeno....who for decades flooded this forum with not a whimper out of you....until he U-Turned on you....with regret, I believed in you, stood by your side through thick and thin....one of my few regrets for believing in a phony, fake, fraud and/or an oily snake....take your pick.

So let’s see….you stood by my side through thick and thin. And presumably part of the thin was I got on with Beeno for decades. Gosh I guess that means there wasn’t a whimper out of you for all that time. I certainly can’t recall one up until HasBeen became a zealot.

What’s the name for somebody who accuses one of something they are themselves ‘guilty’ of…..oh yes, a hypocrite.

Beyond stupid, you literally feed me the argument which blows you up. Still nobody ever thought you were bright.

Still nobody ever thought you were bright.

Thanks for making my point, several have called you out as a Sleaze.

Careful Moz, the "lady" hath visited the salon and had some new acrylics fitted.

Meeeeeooooow

Here...Suck it up....

BLM

BLM

I’m a sleaze by pointing out the obvious…..Hysteria is rather stupid. But Hysteria can call me a phony, a fake, a fraud….and here’s the one that really hurts, an oily snake. Ouch, Ag no man, not the snake thing again!

Rofl!

Dennie

As far as I know BLM (Black Lives Matter) is one of two subsidiaries established by Obama in 2014, The other one was Antifa supposed to keep the youth loyal to the Party, Both receive generous funds from the federal Government to find their "Projects". The last example was $2 billion dollars for a green development program that did no such project and had no expertise in the field anyway,

The object was to keep the Black and younger voters loyal to the Democratic party and it did work in 2016. In 2020 opinion polls indicate that an increasing number of the Blacks are not accepting the DP anymore and the next project of theirs funded by Soros and the DNC was to terrorise the inner city Blacks into supporting the Democratic Party. They consequintely based on liees about Police brutality against Black based on inmcitement by the media trying to make racism an issue in the 2020 election.

The BLM and Antifa collected criminals from all over the USA promsising that te Democratic Party would not act against them and that all the loot they get from the riots they could keep. The organizers from BLM and Antifa got generous payments and in the cities controlled by the Democrats the Police was instructed not to arrest rioters, The result was the murder of 46 people - most of them Blacks - the serious wounding of 1 200 police officers by the rioters using firearms and Molotov cocktails as well as looting and arson that caused $6 billion in losses. Most of the burned-down buildings in inner cities was never rebuilt. During the riots the Police - despite restrictioms - arrested 1 500 rioters for crimes inmvolving murder, attacks on the police and arson and looting. The charges could not be finalized and one of the first actions of Biden was to release the 1 500 arrested criminals from prison and for the Justice Department not to charge them o any crimes, That was too much for normal people to take. One of the murdered people as a hughly respected retired Black Police offier who ere murdered and the Governor of Ohio appointed a private lawyer firm to prosecute the rwo murderers and after the case was heard it took the Jury 30 minutes to find them guiltuy and sentence them to death,

Biden got elected but how that was done was never clearly established, What is amasing in 2024 was the fact that the support for Harris dropped from 82 million votes in 2020 to 73 million in 2024/ According to exit polls in 2024 DP support dropped to 42% amongst Hispanic voters and 52% amongst Black male voters and 70% amogst Black female voters. So the terrorist subsidiares of the Democratic Party - BLM and Antifa - were not effective anymore and the Government funding is out,

So your reference represent a terrorist subsidiary of the Democratic Party, Amazing what ignorance is stuck in your brain based on media propaganda. The fact is that BLM's only real function was to terrorise the inhabitants of inner cities - nothing more. So now we got at least part of your viewpoint on Biden policies out of you - so you support domestic terrorism. What else do you support?

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The ideal government in the USA would be Joe Biden as president, with Antifa and BLM replacing the FBI and the CIA respectively . . . and Andre Esterhuizen as VP.

LOL