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GoldenRod
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China is getting pissed...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/beijing-strikes-back-white-house-draws-red-lines-over-south-n711401
I saw some of this interview. China seems pretty confident in where their line in the sand is.... and Trump is getting dangerously close to it...
BEIJING — A day after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer vowed that the United States would stand up to China's military expansion in the South China Sea, officials here are firing back.
"There might be a difference" of opinion regarding who has sovereignty over the islands in the South China Sea, "but that's not for the United States" to get involved in, Lu Kang, a senior official with the Chinese foreign ministry, told NBC News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday.
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China had previously avoided responding to many of Trump's campaign speeches and tweets in which he repeatedly accused China of predatory business practices toward the United States. Trump told a rally last May, "We can't continue to allow China to rape our country,"
But the government here clearly now wants to respond, and to do so with carefully crafted diplomatic language. Lu, who is the spokesperson and director-general for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' department of information, spoke to NBC News at the foreign ministry headquarters in central Beijing and agreed to answer questions, in English, on a wide range of issues. Ordinarily, Chinese government officials refrain from granting such interviews to American reporters, preferring instead to read carefully prepared statements in Chinese.
Lu was especially emphatic about President Trump's position on Taiwan.
"This issue touches upon China's core interests. By no means is this something that can be negotiated, or [used] as a bargaining chip," Lu said.
Before his inauguration, Trump broke with years of American protocol by receiving a phone call from the Taiwanese leader. For the Chinese, any recognition of Taiwanese independence is considered a break of its so-called "One China Policy" and is taken as a diplomatic affront.
Ever since president Nixon opened up China, the U.S. has avoided revisiting this delicate issue. But Trump has hinted that America's stance might be renegotiated, telling the Wall Street Journal in an interview published January 13 that "everything is under negotiation, including One China."
Not a chance, Lu told NBC News, echoing a statement he issued earlier this month in response to Trump's declaration. "That's not [up] for negotiation," he said.
Stop pissing off the primary country that can cause us massive harm economically, and/or militarily!
His SOP of trying to intimidate his opponents in the business world does not work against countries! Even grade-school kids know that!
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Hofstra26
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Re: China is getting pissed...
He's going to entrench us in constant wars and battles because of this "tough guy", loud mouth routine of his. The goal of a president is to foster good relations and maintain peace with other countries.............. Not to antagonize and threaten them like a little pissed off dictator. WTF is happening in this country and how can this be stopped!!?!?!
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| Posted 1/25/17 9:07 AM |
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klingklang77
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China is getting pissed...
He needs to stay the hell away from the South China Sea issue.
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| Posted 1/25/17 9:16 AM |
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mrsrainbow
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China is getting pissed...
War is GOOD for the economy and Trump! Of course they'd love nothing more than to go to war, and with China no less. War profiteering like we've never seen before.
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| Posted 1/25/17 9:55 AM |
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Posted by mrsrainbow
War is GOOD for the economy and Trump! Of course they'd love nothing more than to go to war, and with China no less. War profiteering like we've never seen before.
He loves war, he said so himself. I was never going to vote for him, but if it was possible ever, that comment would have given me serious pause. IMO anyone rational, especially with a child close to legal age, should have carefully considered that comment. Because none of his cronies are sending their children. In addition to China, the US leaving NATO will make it easier for Russia to invade its former states, and Trump owes Putin bigly. So that's another pickle we might end up in.
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| Posted 1/25/17 10:59 AM |
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mrsrainbow
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Re: China is getting pissed...
Posted by MrsProfessor
Posted by mrsrainbow
War is GOOD for the economy and Trump! Of course they'd love nothing more than to go to war, and with China no less. War profiteering like we've never seen before.
He loves war, he said so himself. I was never going to vote for him, but if it was possible ever, that comment would have given me serious pause. IMO anyone rational, especially with a child close to legal age, should have carefully considered that comment. Because none of his cronies are sending their children. In addition to China, the US leaving NATO will make it easier for Russia to invade its former states, and Trump owes Putin bigly. So that's another pickle we might end up in.
Not to mention voting to leave the UN...plus vacating the embassies.
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| Posted 1/25/17 11:02 AM |
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Re: China is getting pissed...
Posted by mrsrainbow
War is GOOD for the economy and Trump! Of course they'd love nothing more than to go to war, and with China no less. War profiteering like we've never seen before.
And all the jobs he'll create with war mongering. Planes, guns, ships, WMD's.
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| Posted 1/25/17 11:03 AM |
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mrsrainbow
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Re: China is getting pissed...
Posted by BaseballWidow
Posted by mrsrainbow
War is GOOD for the economy and Trump! Of course they'd love nothing more than to go to war, and with China no less. War profiteering like we've never seen before.
And all the jobs he'll create with war mongering. Planes, guns, ships, WMD's.
**** Cheney is probably salivating 
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| Posted 1/25/17 11:08 AM |
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Bugaboo
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Re: China is getting pissed...
Posted by MrsProfessor
Posted by mrsrainbow
War is GOOD for the economy and Trump! Of course they'd love nothing more than to go to war, and with China no less. War profiteering like we've never seen before.
He loves war, he said so himself. I was never going to vote for him, but if it was possible ever, that comment would have given me serious pause. IMO anyone rational, especially with a child close to legal age, should have carefully considered that comment. Because none of his cronies are sending their children. In addition to China, the US leaving NATO will make it easier for Russia to invade its former states, and Trump owes Putin bigly. So that's another pickle we might end up in.
Putin is getting ready for war - having the US abandon NATO, destabilizing the EU, and trying to overthrow Merkel to weaken Germany. Trump is Putin's puppet. People need to connect the dots.
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| Posted 1/25/17 11:13 AM |
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seaside
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Re: China is getting pissed...
And our children will be drafted into all of these wars...to die for HIS ego?
I won't stand by and watch that....
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| Posted 1/25/17 11:35 AM |
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