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3 minutes ago, rabas said:
Show me the evidence it didn't.
Trump and Pompeo have incriminating evidence. No.
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5 minutes ago, Toosetinmyways said:
Trump to "Disband" virus task force. His new word for you are Fired.
Might as well since his daily briefing bombed big time. He is now solely responsible for the increasing infections and deaths and shortages in testings.
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10 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:
Well yes, communism does have some benefits. I think I'll stick with freedom.
Is US completely free.
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13 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:Disengagement? Huh? Where do you see disengagement?
Maybe from this.
Donald Trump's message to Xi Jinping: the United States intends to disengage with your country to the greatest extent possible. 31 Oct 2018.
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38 minutes ago, Nigel Garvie said:Hmmmm Globilization is an easier word to say than define. Trade is worldwide, that is for sure. The non western countries are totally involved but play the game a bit differently. I doubt Trump can actually write off China debt, one trillion of treasury bonds I believe. If you default on your treasury bonds who will ever want to do business with you again. Where will Trump buy his MAGA hats!
Many eastern countries make cheap goods for the Western market China, Bangladesh etc, etc. We owe our comfy lifestyle to them. Walmart and Amazon depend on them for their profit margins. It would take years for the US to replace cheap Chinese goods with goods from other countries, and the US will face horrendous inflation. Not going to make any prospective POTUS popular.
Trump make US and China disengagement since he walk into the White House. When two economic super powers employed a take no prisoners tactics, the only outcome is a zero sum game and the geo economic fallout that will drive the world into an economic meltdown that could lead to violence. It’s matter of which will take the pain better. Xi is President for life while Trump will have to face his voters. That seem a very foolish strategy for Trump. He is only doing this for his domestic supporters who will not take kindly to him if the economy soured. Still think he is only postering and will not have the fortitude to stay the course to decouple from China.
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1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:
Globalization has changed the world. Trying to change it back is gonna give people some big shocks.
Globalization only changed the world for big corporations and is a western concept. China is smarter in practicing global engagement without losing control of their domestic political control. They will also much more sustainable than the western globalization.
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9 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:
come to think of it, it's starting to look like trump/pompeo are doing all they can to PREVENT a real, independent inquiry. poisoning the well with possibly fabricated claims, leaking selected fusion-esque reports, demonizing the who, demonizing the united nations, making threats that will guarantee chinese opposition. it's almost as though they want to ensure there won't be a thorough investigation.
Simply put, the Chinese believed there is a political agenda behind the investigation and if they allowed US investigation, it will be highly skewed to serve that agenda. The better option is for WHO is lead the investigation but US unlikely to accept their conclusion. Other countries may be asked to lead the investigation but Trump don’t trust any of his allies. So basically it’s one big Trump’s manufactured problem.
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41 minutes ago, lannarebirth said:
I own commercial buildings. Not office space, thank God. One of my tenats is a non profit 501 3c corp where all but one, or maybe two of their employees is a volunteer. They qualify for no govt. program despite the fact they have been designated an essential health care provider. I've offered them in excess of $20,000 of rent abatement. Not deferral but abatement. They've been incorporated for 53 years and they're not going anywhere. I offer them below market rents in the best of times and we'll get through this together. I'm not sure everyone else will be so fortunate.
Good link and fabulous read. Lots to talk but off topic. Can only say that the US economic system has been flawed for a long while and the pandemic is the proverbial needle.
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19 minutes ago, rkidlad said:
Well, I believe this is a thread about the origins of the virus. Comparing Trump to Xi as a way of saying any reports from the US intelligence can’t be trusted seems to be an irony lost on many.
Question of the virus origin was projected as aggressive investigation of wrongdoing by US and is seen by China as political. It should be a science base investigation and not a political base investigation. The trade threats are also not helpful for a super power like China to relent and submit. Trump flip flopping on his relationship with Xi is seen as weak and not taken seriously. Trump’s innuendos will never get China cooperation for an investigation. However the investigation is required for medical science and future prevention of pandemic. It must be done but not by coercion.
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23 minutes ago, lannarebirth said:I actually have some amount of sympathy or some of the people protesting in state capitols to open things back up. The government never should have prescribed the lockdown without simultaneously providing a monthly UBI for the citizenry. The $1,200 they sent was used by many people to pay the previous month's bills. There should have been a program in place, open ended, given the lack of concrete timelines to provide sustenance to the populace such that they could get through this crisis. I blame both the Presidency and both branches of Congress. They sent trillions to those who support their campaigns and next to nothing to those whom they are meant to serve.
It has been tough for all especially the small businesses all round the world. The fact is that things will never be the same even after the infections and deaths declined significantly. A vaccine is the only solution but it is not a surety that the world can get one. SARS, Ebola still don’t have a vaccine. Big corporations have better chance of continuation but still uncertainty lingers especially for the airline, oil, big retails and travel industries. Small businesses will bear the biggest brunt of this drastic economic meltdown. Some jobs will never come back and some businesses will close for good. US economy policies have not prepared the people with the basic necessities to survive financially and medically. Fault of previous governments and the FED. UBI may be the new normal.
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1 hour ago, rkidlad said:
So call it out. You can do that. You can report on these things.
Try doing that in China.
Those who called out are out of their jobs. Those who been asked to testify have been prohibited by the White House. Those who speak facts based on science have been sidelined. Criminals pardoned. Comparing China political system and US is apple and pear. US is a democratic country with a President that is acting like President Xi.
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If Trump acted promptly, there wouldn’t be that many infections and deaths. Maybe too late now but he still can raise to the occasion and take lead to have a unified country face the pandemic and be the commander in chief to drive national policies. Now that’s a miracle worth happening.
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5 minutes ago, rkidlad said:
Yea, don’t talk to me about fake news in the West. The CCP are kings of fake news. They control everything that comes out of the Chinese press. Apples and oranges.
China is a totalitarian country and we expect high level of control but West especially US are democratic countries and yet the US federal government is concealing, preventing and intimidating the news.
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I find this quite amusing and I seriously think Trump is posturing and want his supporters to feel that he is a tough guy.
White House was rumored that they intend to limit investment ties between the world’s two largest economies. That is as silly as it sound as it will harm led US companies and people, create turmoil in the already weakened financial markets, endanger global trade and economic growth. Yuan will depreciate and will hurt all the sundry exports from lower China demand. It’s all bluff and bluster from an insecure man.
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13 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:If we use the Flynn case as a gauge then Durham coming up a hero is a slam dunk. Recall, too, it was Barr who assigned outside prosecutor Jeff Jensen to review the case. And look what's happened.
I pity all of the libs who swallowed uncritically all of the MSM narratives they were fed and the shock and denial they'll have to deal with. I've told lib posters from the start of my posting days here . . . you're being played. We'll see, though, won't we?
Really nothing much happen with Flynn’s attorney ex-FBI attorney Jeff Jensen. His focus was on the exposure of exculpatory documents by the prosecutors which the court last year rejected. The court ruled out that the government wrongly withheld documents that could have made a difference to the case. The attorneys will now bear the burden of showing reasonable probability of a different outcome and it will be a tall order for Flynn to overcome that hurdle. Don’t think the libs have been played as they recognized the propensity of Trump and Trump’s allies committing crimes continuously.
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38 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:
Go Durham and Barr.
We wouldn’t have to wait that long for this year old investigation. Barr promised by summer in time for the Trump’s climax push towards re-election. Barr has made bold accusation calling this a biggest travesty in the American history on his own department. Let’s see if he is a hero or a zero.
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5 hours ago, webfact said:The best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I have no reason to disbelieve that at this point," Pompeo said. When the interviewer pointed out that was not the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies, Pompeo backtracked, saying, "I've seen what the intelligence community has said. I have no reasonto believe that they've got it wrong."
I recommend anyone to watch the embarrassing ABC interview when Pompeo contradict himself in a flat 15 seconds.
Then he rambled on quickly to divert his gut cringing embarrassment and accused China of hiding, concealing and confusing. Isn’t that what Trump is doing - hiding, concealing and confusing as the infections and deaths spiral upwards. Pot, kettle, black comes to mind.
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1 hour ago, DrTuner said:
Commies. They got so many skeletons in the closet, they had to find a big enough one. I think it's called Tibet.
You sure the Democratic west has no skeletons and nothing to hide.
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7 hours ago, chainarong said:
didn't know the US had invaded China , maybe it should.
Here lesson on history for you. US did invade China with 8 other western countries during the Boxer Rebellion; seizes and looted Beijing. Every European super power has invaded China and subjected them to lots of suffering and humiliation. Even Japan pillaged, raped and looted much of China treasures. China no longer the weak helpless nation and demand their sovereignty to be recognized. Trump threats are not the way to ask another country for cooperation. International relationship is not build on threats and intimidation and there never ever will be reciprocate cooperation.
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7 minutes ago, rabas said:Trade war effect
Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) and FocusEconomics calculations.Certainly not reeling as you alleged. China GDP has been on the decline even before the trade war. China’s economy is facing challenges from deeper, structural, longer term and have been building for years. Issues like over investment, high savings, sluggish consumer spending and low industrial productivity. The GDP is within range from 6-6.5% deemed acceptable by the central government. Do some research.
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3 hours ago, Cryingdick said:
The tariffs had China reeling before the virus.
They were growing about 6.5% GDP before the virus. Don’t look like they are reeling.
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As diabolical as the CCP blocking Dr Li Wenliang from speaking the truth.
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4 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:
So he hasn't been nice to Kim Jong Un, millionaires, billionaires and others? Silly logic. But that completely misses the point. China won't allow an open investigation into how and why they spread the virus, regardless of whether Trump were nicer or not. If that is true, someone nicer will make it happen, right? Didn't think so.
You should know better that Trump is only nice to anyone who praise him or he can extract benefits for himself. In any case, he need to play this political game with China to divert from his appalling failing management of the pandemic. I know you smart enough to realize this.
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11 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:
Yes, because if only Trump were nicer to China, they'd support an open investigation of their role in spreading the virus.
He is incapable of being nice to anyone but himself.
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Biden's edge evaporates as Trump seen as better suited for economy, coronavirus response: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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Why the necessity to twist. Facts speak for itself.
Overall, 42% of Americans said they approved of Trump's performance in office, and 53% said they disapproved. The president's popularity has remained relatively flat for more than a year.