WASHINGTON (AA): Day two of trade talks between the U.S. and China inShanghai on Tuesday got a sharp awakening in the form of U.S. PresidentDonald Trump lashing out at Chinese officials on Twitter.
“China is doing very badly, worst year in 27 – was supposed to start buyingour agricultural product now – no signs that they are doing so,” Trumpsaid. “That is the problem with China, they just don’t come through.”
“Our Economy has become MUCH larger than the Chinese Economy is last 3years,” he stressed.
Trump’s remarks came on the second day of officials from the two giantcompetitors meeting in Shanghai for trade and tariff negotiations, thefirst face-to-face meeting for the two delegations since May.
Emphasizing that the negotiations are ongoing, Trump said that China“always change the deal in the end to their benefit.”
“They should probably wait out our Election to see if we get one of theDemocrat stiffs like Sleepy Joe [Biden],” said the president. “Then theycould make a GREAT deal, like in past 30 years, and continue to ripoff theUSA, even bigger and better than ever before.”
“The problem with them waiting, however, is that if & when I win, the dealthat they get will be much tougher than what we are negotiating now,” Trumpsaid, referring to the 2020 general elections, “or no deal at all.”
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“We have all the cards, our past leaders never got it!” he claimed.
The U.S. and China have slapped tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollarsworth of each other’s goods, and Trump threatened to impose duties on $300billion worth of additional of Chinese imports in May after tradenegotiations faltered that month without a long-sought deal.
Last month, some 600 American retailers, farmers, and manufacturers,including Walmart and Levi Strauss, signed a letter urging Trump to foregotariffs on Beijing amid the ongoing trade war between the two countries.
Trump has derided and withdrawn from trade deals negotiated by especiallyhis Democratic predecessors.
Critics, however, fault his continued threat of tariffs and lack of clarityover trade goals with hurting U.S. manufacturers and farmers, as well asthe international trade system.
