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川普不裝了！對「朋友」心灰意冷 改稱他是敵人

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對中國國家主席習近平向來態度友好的美國總統川普，23日態度丕變，直指習近平是「敵人」。美媒分析，川普顯然因貿易戰對習近平日漸心灰意冷，未來美中關係恐更加決裂。

貿易戰沒進展讓川普現疲態，不再和習近平稱兄道弟，未來美中關係恐更加決裂。（中央社／資料照片）
「華盛頓郵報」（Washington Post）23日報導分析，儘管美中貿易局勢惡化，川普過去一直試圖與習近平保持友好關係，不只稱習近平為「好友」，也時不時讚揚他的領導力。在外界抨擊中國不當處理香港「反送中」示威抗議、北京轉而指控美國介入香港事務之際，川普也選擇不對習近平多加批評。

但在美中貿易談判遲遲沒有進展，美國經濟也出現疲弱跡象後，備感灰心的川普不再假裝友好。

川普23日回應北京懲罰性關稅措施，在推特（Twitter）上宣布將針對5500億美元中國商品提高5%關稅，並下令美國企業退出中國。不只如此，川普還放話美國沒有中國「會過得更好」，還問外界沒有作為的聯邦準備理事會（Fed）主席鮑爾和習近平，「誰才是我們更大的敵人？」

川普23日發言較往常更為強硬，連一貫支持他與中國攤牌的人士，都認為他的言詞可能是未來美中關係更加破裂的預兆。

對中國的立場屬鷹派的華裔美籍作家兼評論家章家敦（Gordon Chang）指出，川普23日的發言不只嚴重偏離美國對中政策，「也嚴重偏離川普自己幾個禮拜前針對中國的政策與評論」。

章家敦表示，雖然川普對做「假動作」（head fake）很在行，但他不認為這是川普現在在做的事。他分析：「這是總統感到心灰意冷。從他今天（23日）推文內容的惡毒程度來看，我認為我們現在目睹的是（川普）再一次政策轉向與中國切斷關係。」

華府智庫戰略暨國際研究中心（CSIS）亞洲事務資深顧問葛來儀（Bonnie Glaser）則認為，川普的發言令人難以置信，尤其是使用「敵人」這個字眼。她認為，川普的發言應該會讓中國很吃驚，因為他「居然點出中國可能是敵人的這個事實」。

白宮幕僚雖不願多談川普今天的推文，但美國官員曾說過，川普與他的國策顧問已慢慢意識到，要和中國達成貿易協議機會不大。多位政治分析家也指出，雖然貿易戰讓中國經濟陷入困境，但習近平願意承受的經濟痛苦顯然多於川普團隊預期。

私下提供川普政策建言、擔任華府智庫哈德遜研究所（Hudson Institute）中國事務專家的白邦瑞（Michael Pillsbury）表示，中國代表團最近幾個月變得「越來越傲慢」。白邦瑞也透露，他從過去幾天與川普的對話中，有注意到他對習近平「漸感灰心」。

事實上，川普從2016年競選總統以來，對中國態度一直搖擺不定，而這恐怕是為什麼習近平一直沒有認真看待川普獻殷情的原因。

文章指出，川普最初抨擊北京利用美國政府過去幾屆的寬鬆貿易政策，但就任後馬上轉而對習近平示好，不只邀請習近平到美國佛羅里達州度假俱樂部作客，還尋求北京協助對北韓施壓。

不過，就在習近平禮尚往來，細心招待2017年底訪中的川普不久後，川普隨即在去年又轉變態度，開始對中國展開一系列的批評，包含指控北京沒有管制類鴉片藥物芬太尼（Fentanyl）非法販運至美國，以及試圖影響美國選舉。川普政府更有違前朝做法，將中國定義為「戰略競爭者」（strategic competitor）。

前白宮國家安全會議亞洲事務資深主任麥艾文（Evan Medeiros）認為，川普對習近平的示好「從來沒有被中國認真看待，也從來不是談判籌碼來源」。

麥艾文指出：「中國方面認定川普太過反覆無常，不能被認真看待，所以他們對美國行為的注重多過言詞。」

在過去，美中兩國之所以能維持表面的建設性關係，是因為川普還試圖與習近平保持友好。但麥艾文表示，川普措辭的改變，意味著至少在他卸任前，美國對中政策可能「將有更根本性的長期轉變」。
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The US President Trump, who has always been friendly to Chinese President Xi Jinping, changed his attitude on the 23rd, pointing to Xi Jinping as an "enemy." According to the analysis of the US media, Trump apparently became increasingly disheartened by Xi Jinping due to the trade war, and the US-China relationship will be more likely to break in the future.
The lack of progress in the trade war has made Trump feel tired, and he no longer has a brother-in-law with Xi Jinping. The future US-China relationship is likely to break even more. (Central News / Profile Photo)
The lack of progress in the trade war has made Trump feel tired, and he no longer has a brother-in-law with Xi Jinping. The future US-China relationship is likely to break even more. (Central News / Profile Photo)

The Washington Post reported on the 23rd that despite the deterioration of the US-China trade situation, Trump has tried to maintain friendly relations with Xi Jinping in the past, not only to call Xi Jinping a "friend", but also to praise his leadership from time to time. Trump also chose not to criticize Xi Jinping when he criticized China for improperly handling Hong Kong’s “reverse delivery” demonstrations and Beijing’s accusation that the United States was involved in Hong Kong affairs.

However, after the US-China trade talks have not progressed and the US economy has shown signs of weakness, the discouraged Trump is no longer pretending to be friendly.

Trump responded to Beijing's punitive tariff measures on the 23rd, and announced on Twitter that it would raise 5% tariffs on US$550 billion Chinese goods and order US companies to withdraw from China. Not only that, Trump also said that the United States does not have China "will have a better life", but also asked the outside world of the Federal Preparatory Council (Fed) Chairman Paul and Xi Jinping, "Who is our bigger enemy?"

Trump’s speech on the 23rd was more tough than usual. Even those who consistently supported his showdown with China believed that his words might be a sign of a more broken relationship between the United States and China.

Gordon Chang, a Chinese-American writer and critic who is a hawkish Chinese stance, pointed out that Trump’s speech on the 23rd was not only seriously deviated from the US’s policy toward China. “It also seriously deviated from Trump’s own actions against China a few weeks ago. Policies and comments."

Zhang Jiadun said that although Trump is very good at doing "head fake", he does not think this is what Trump is doing now. He analyzed: "This is the president's disheartened. From the point of view of the viciousness of the content of his tweet today (23rd), I think what we are witnessing now is that (Chuanpu) once again turned to cut off relations with China. "

Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser on Asian affairs at the Washington Center for Strategic Intelligence and International Studies (CSIS), believes that Trump’s speech is incredible, especially with the word “enemy”. She believes that Trump’s speech should surprise China because he “points out the fact that China may be an enemy”.

Although the White House aides are not willing to talk more about Trump's tweets today, US officials have said that Trump and his national policy advisers have gradually realized that there is little chance of a trade agreement with China. Many political analysts also pointed out that although the trade war has brought the Chinese economy into trouble, Xi Jinping is willing to bear more economic pain than the Trump team expected.

Michael Pillsbury, who has privately provided Trump policy advice and worked as an expert on Chinese affairs at the Hudson Institute in Washington, said that the Chinese delegation has become "more and more arrogant" in recent months. Bai Bangrui also revealed that he has noticed from his conversations with Trump in the past few days that he is "frustrated" with Xi Jinping.

In fact, since Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, his attitude toward China has been vacillating, and this is probably why Xi Jinping has not taken seriously the reasons for Trump’s enthusiasm.

The article pointed out that Trump initially attacked Beijing to use the US government's past loose trade policy, but immediately turned to Xi Jinping after taking office, not only invited Xi Jinping to the Florida State Resort Club, but also sought Beijing to help pressure North Korea.

However, just after Xi Jinping's reciprocal exchanges and careful reception of Trump's visit to China at the end of 2017, Trump immediately changed his attitude last year and began a series of criticisms against China, including allegations that Beijing did not control the opioid Fentanyl. Illicit traffic to the United States and attempts to influence US elections. The Trump administration is more contrary to the previous practice and defines China as a "strategic competitor."

Evan Medeiros, senior director of Asian affairs at the former White House National Security Conference, believes that Trump’s show to Xi Jinping “has never been taken seriously by China and has never been a source of bargaining chips”.

Mai Aiwen pointed out: "The Chinese side has determined that Trump is too impermanent and cannot be taken seriously, so they pay more attention to American behavior."

In the past, the reason why the United States and China were able to maintain a constructive relationship was because Trump also tried to maintain friendship with Xi Jinping. But Mai Aiwen said that the change in Trump's wording means that at least before he leaves office, the US policy toward China may "have a more fundamental long-term shift."

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Donald Trump calls Xi Jinping an ‘enemy’ after China announces fresh tariffs on US$75 billion of US products

• Beijing will raise tariffs on items originating in the US from 5 per cent to 10 per cent in two batches
• Trump responded by ‘ordering’ US companies to look for alternatives to China and referred to Xi as an ‘enemy’

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China has announced new tariffs on US goods. Photo: AFP
US President Donald Trump lashed out at Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, framing his counterpart as an “enemy” after Beijing said it would go ahead with tariffs of as much as 10 per cent on US$75 billion worth of American products. The moves were the latest escalation in a trade war that has dragged on for more than a year.
China said it would raise tariffs on items originating in the US from 5 per cent to 10 per cent, and the new duties would be implemented in two batches – the first from September 1 and the second from December 15. The duties – announced and then suspended earlier this year – are in response to Washington’s plan to slap 10 per cent tariff on US$300 billion worth of Chinese imports.
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Trump responded to the tariff news with a barrage of Twitter posts by asking, rhetorically who was “the bigger enemy” – US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell or Xi. Trump also reiterated a list of grievances about China and ordered US companies “to immediately start looking for an alternative to China”. He added that he would “be responding” to China’s new tariffs later on Friday.
According to the State Council’s Customs Tariff Commission, the added duties will apply to goods including include soybeans, beef, pork and crude oil. Twenty-five per cent tariffs on American vehicles and car parts would take effect from December 15, up from the 5 per cent now in place.


White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said China’s reaction was “well anticipated” but would only “strengthen the resolve of this president”.
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“And they signal once again to the American public that China wants to buckle our knee so that they can keep having their way with us,” Navarro, a driving force behind the administration’s tough line on Beijing, said on CNN.

China’s tariff commission said Beijing decided to reimpose the tariffs because Washington’s planned increases “violated the consensus reached by the two heads of state in Argentina and the consensus reached in Osaka”, referring to meetings between Trump and Xi in December and June.



https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/115252305/trump-lashes-out-calls-chinas-xi-jinping-an-enemy

hat matters," Navarro said, adding that the impact of the latest tariffs should "already have been baked into the market."
In private, Trump and his aides have been scrambling to avert an economic downturn, The Post has reported.
Ideas that have been floated include imposing a currency transaction tax that could weaken the dollar and make US exports more competitive; creating a rotation among the Federal Reserve governors that would make it easier to check Powell - whom Trump has relentlessly castigated for not doing more to increase growth - and pushing to lower the corporate tax rate to 15 per cent in a bid to spur more investment.
Some, if not all, of these steps would require congressional approval.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/23/trump-powell-xi-china-enemy-1473633

Donald Trump has battered his Fed chairman relentlessly as the president’s trade war threatens to upend the global economy. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo

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Trump asks if Fed's Powell or China's Xi is the 'bigger enemy'



By CAITLIN OPRYSKO

08/23/2019 11:29 AM EDT
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President Donald Trump compared his handpicked Fed chairman to the communist leader of China on Friday, wondering aloud, which man “is our bigger enemy?”
“As usual, the Fed did NOTHING! It is incredible that they can ‘speak’ without knowing or asking what I am doing, which will be announced shortly. We have a very strong dollar and a very weak Fed. I will work ‘brilliantly’ with both, and the U.S. will do great,” Trump said in a tweet.


He added: “My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powel (sic) or Chairman Xi?”
The president’s fury and explosive comparison came after Powell did not explicitly forecast that the central bank would start a campaign of aggressive interest rate cuts and as China announced another round of tariffs against $75 billion in U.S. goods.
In a speech at the Kansas Fed’s annual retreat Friday, Powell said he would “act as appropriate” to sustain a record-breaking period of economic expansion, though he steered away from providing specifics. He cited trade uncertainty as a "new challenge" for the Federal Reserve, calling the environment fostered by Trump's trade war unprecedented.
The president has battered his Fed chairman relentlessly as Trump’s trade war threatens to upend the global economy, recently calling on Powell to slash interest rates by as many as 100 basis points.
His anger with Powell appears to have risen to new levels to compare him with a leader who has been accused of overseeing human rights abuses to quiet dissent within China's borders.
Trump did not immediately elaborate on the actions he planned to take, though top trade adviser Peter Navarro said earlier Friday that reimposing tariffs on China that Trump delayed last week were not off the table. Trump said in a subsequent tweet he would respond to China's newest tariffs later on Friday.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...likens-fed-chief-to-enemy-china-idUSKCN1VD1XL


Enraged Trump likens Fed chief to 'enemy' China

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump reacted furiously on Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell linked the trade war with China to risks to the U.S. economy, asking whether the man he handpicked to run the U.S. central bank was a greater “enemy” than Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd after speaking at the AMVETS (American Veterans) National Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. U.S., August 20, 2019. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
“As usual, the Fed did NOTHING! It is incredible that they can ‘speak’ without knowing or asking what I am doing, which will be announced shortly,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “We have a very strong dollar and a very weak Fed. I will work ‘brilliantly’ with both, and the U.S. will do great.”
“My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?”
It was unclear what Trump meant when he said he would work “brilliantly” with both, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump has repeatedly accused the Fed of keeping monetary policy too tight, which he says has boosted the value of the dollar and undercut economic growth.

The president said in a subsequent Twitter post that he would respond later on Friday to China’s announcement on Friday that it would impose additional tariffs on U.S. products, the latest salvo in the U.S.-China trade war.
Trump has been pressuring the Fed to lower interest rates aggressively, arguing that the dollar’s strength is undermining the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers.
With some signs of growing recession risks in the United States, Trump administration officials have discussed actions to prevent a downturn before the November 2020 presidential election, according to media reports.
Those have included the imposition of a currency transaction tax to weaken the dollar and a rotation of Fed governors to try to undercut Powell’s influence, the Washington Post reported, moves that would likely require congressional action.

Powell, in a speech earlier on Friday, stopped short of committing to further rate cuts. He characterized the U.S. economy as in a “favorable place” but facing “significant” risks, especially from what Fed officials have described as the harmful effects of the White House’s trade war with China.
Before Powell spoke, a senior Trump adviser urged the Fed chief to lower rates. “America, we have your back. That’s all he has to say,” White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said in an interview with Fox Business Network.
Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Tim Ahmann and Paul Simao
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Amid trade war, Trump drops pretense of friendship with China’s Xi Jinping, calls him an ‘enemy’

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a photo in June during the Group of 20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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David Nakamura
August 24, 2019
President Trump on Friday lashed out personally at Chinese President Xi Jinping, calling him an “enemy” in a dramatic escalation of rhetoric that could signal a deeper shift in his administration’s increasingly confrontational strategy toward China.
Despite the rising tensions on trade, Trump had sought to maintain good personal relations with Xi, calling him “my friend” in a tweet earlier this month and praising his leadership. He has even refrained from criticizing Xi over China’s handling of massive pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong that Beijing has blamed on U.S. influence.
But Trump dropped all pretense Friday in series of tweets in which he directed American companies to ditch China and declared that the United States “would be far better off” without dealing with the world’s second-largest economy. The president’s frustration over a lack of progress on trade talks with Beijing and signs of weakness in the U.S. economy boiled over as he attacked both Xi and Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, asking in one tweet “who is our bigger enemy” between the two.

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Even Trump allies who have cheered his showdown with Beijing are saying that the president’s statements may foreshadow a possible sharper break between the two countries.
“It’s a striking departure for American policy on China; it’s even a striking departure from Trump’s policies and comments on China of just a few weeks ago,” said Gordon Chang, an author and frequent Fox News commentator who espouses hawkish views on China.
“Trump is capable of a head fake, but I do not get a sense this is a head fake,” Chang added. “This is frustration on the part of the president. Today strikes me, given the virulence of the tweets, that we’re seeing another turn toward what we could call a breaking-off of relations with China.”
White House aides declined a request to elaborate on Trump’s tweets. But officials have said that the president and his advisers have grown increasingly convinced that there is little hope for a trade deal. Last week, the Trump administration announced it would postpone a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods until later in the year over fears that they could undermine U.S. companies during the holiday shopping season.

Trump calls the Fed chair an ‘enemy’ after Powell said trade war is ‘turbulent’
Yet on Friday, Beijing announced plans to implement a new round of tariffs on U.S. goods.
“This is incredible language. The word ‘enemy’ really takes this to a new level,” said Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The Chinese will be quite startled by the fact that the president could even raise the fact that China could be an enemy.”
Trump bashed China in his 2016 campaign, complaining that the communist country had taken advantage of lax trade policies from previous U.S. administrations of both political parties.
But after taking office, Trump courted Xi, playing host to him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in an effort to engage him on trade negotiations and enlist Beijing’s cooperation on a “maximum pressure” campaign on North Korea.
Xi returned the favor by treating Trump to an elaborate state visit later that year, feting him with a private performance of the Peking Opera and a military procession that impressed the American president. During that trip to Beijing, Trump told a group of American business leaders, “I don’t blame China” for its unfair trade practices, saying he faulted previous U.S. administrations for failing to get tough.

Last year, however, Trump began to shift his tone, criticizing Beijing on a range of issues. He faulted China for failing to crack down on fentanyl that was being smuggled into the illicit U.S. drug market, cited the Chinese military as a reason for directing the Pentagon to create a new “Space Force” and accused Beijing of trying to improperly influence U.S. elections.
His administration labeled China a “strategic competitor” in its national security strategy, a shift from past administrations.
At the same time, Trump has generally refrained from criticizing Xi directly, noting only that their friendship might have been strained by the increasing tariffs over the past several months.
The two leaders met most recently on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in late June, during which Trump announced that trade talks would resume. But there has been no breakthrough since then.

Michael Pillsbury, a China expert at the conservative Hudson Institute who informally advises Trump, said he has detected an “increasing arrogance” among the Chinese delegations in recent months. Though the Chinese economy has struggled amid the trade tensions, Xi has demonstrated a willingness to accept more economic pain that Trump’s team had expected, several analysts said.
“My own recent conversations with the president over the last few days, I’ve noticed an increasing frustration with Xi Jinping,” Pillsbury said.
Trump has denigrated China’s global economic standing and suggested that the relative strength of the U.S. economy has given him the upper hand, even as fear of a recession has alarmed the White House and the president’s 2020 campaign team.
This week, Trump blasted past U.S. administrations as having failed to confront Beijing. “Someone had to do it,” Trump said. “I am the chosen one.”

But Evan Medeiros, a China expert who served on the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said Trump’s efforts to court Xi personally “were never taken seriously by the Chinese and were never a source of leverage.”
“The Chinese have come to the conclusion that Trump is far too mercurial to take seriously. They focus on U.S. actions more than words,” said Medeiros, now an Asian studies professor at Georgetown University.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration agreed to sell $8 billion worth of new F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, angering Beijing, and the Pentagon said it was exploring deploying new missile systems in Asia to blunt Chinese military threats. The administration also labeled China a currency manipulator.
“The last veneer of a constructive U.S.-China relationship was Trump’s efforts to have a positive personal relationship with Xi,” Medeiros said. “Now that his rhetoric has turned, that may indicate a much more fundamental long-term shift in China policy — at least until Trump leaves office.”





https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/23/bad-sign-for-trade-talks-trump-calls-china-president-xi-enemy.html

PoliticsIn a bad sign for trade talks, Trump deploys a new label for China's Xi – 'enemy'
Published Fri, Aug 23 2019 12:40 PM EDTUpdated Sat, Aug 24 2019 12:54 AM EDT

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Key Points

• President Donald Trump has a new label for Chinese President Xi Jinping: "Enemy."
• In one of a series of tweets that hit the market like a torpedo Friday morning, the president posed a question to his more than 60 million followers comparing Xi to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
• As recently as this month, the president continued to refer to Xi as a friend.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017.
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Even as trade tensions continued to heat up, President Donald Trump would make sure to refer to China's president, Xi Jinping, as his "friend." On Friday, though, Trump unveiled a new label for his Chinese counterpart: "enemy."
In one of a series of tweets that rattled markets, the president posed a question to his more than 60 million followers comparing Xi to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

"My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?" Trump wrote.

The tweet came shortly after China announced that it will impose 5%-10% tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S. goods and reinstate duties on American autos. The tariffs will come in two batches, on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15, which are the same days that Trump's newest round of tariffs on Chinese goods will go into effect.
The S&P 500 index of large publicly traded companies was down about 1.8% Friday morning after briefly going positive. Trump also said Friday that he had "hereby ordered" U.S. firms to seek an "alternative " to China.
At first blush, Trump's comment was striking not for its slam on the communist leader, but for the critique of the American central bank chairman whom Trump himself appointed.

But it also suggests that the president's personal relationship with Xi, which Trump has touted as the best route to completing a major trade deal uniting the world's two largest economies, is at a low point.

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"President Xi and I have a very strong and personal relationship," the president wrote in a post on Twitter in December. "He and I are the only two people that can bring about massive and very positive change, on trade and far beyond, between our two great Nations."
As recently as this month, the president continued to refer to Xi as a friend.
"President Xi is a good man, he's a friend of mine," Trump said during a rally in Ohio.
Often, the president makes a point of noting that he does not blame China for what he sees an unfair trade relationship between the two countries.
"And again, I don't blame President Xi. I blame our past leaders for allowing it to happen," Trump told reporters in July.
To an extent, Xi has reciprocated. At an economic forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June, Xi referred to Trump as his "friend" and said it was "hard to imagine a complete break of the United States from China or of China from the United States," according to Reuters.
And Trump's first official state visit to Beijing was a grand affair, labeled by the country a "state visit-plus" that would play up informal meetings between the two leaders.
Their relationship has been met with mixed reviews among experts.
Susan Rice, who served as national security advisor to President Barack Obama, wrote in a 2017 op-ed after Trump's first visit to Beijing that "scenes of an American president kowtowing in China to a Chinese president sent chills down the spines of Asia experts and United States allies who have relied on America to balance and sometimes counter an increasingly assertive China."
Chi Wang, president of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation, which promotes the bilateral relationship, wrote that the visit "set the tone of a changing, more cooperative relationship that has the potential to be beneficial to China and the U.S. alike."

In any case, the relationship appears to be facing a major test as the trade war between the two nations has escalated.
The new designation brings the president's public comments more in line with his administration's official policy positions. The president's 2017 national security strategy, a broad document that is supposed to lay out the strategic vision of the federal government in security matters, cites China and Russia as America's chief global competitors.
"They are determined to make economies less free and less fair, to grow their militaries, and to control information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence," the document says.
At a White House event last month, Trump played down his past comments about Xi being a good friend.
"We're probably not quite as close now," Trump said, according to Politico. "But I have to be for our country. He's for China and I'm for USA, and that's the way it's got to be."
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

 

[Ang4MohTrump]

 

[syed putra]

Lets see. Its trump v china/ russia/ north korea/ nato/ turkey/ iran/ federal reserve/ ilhan omar / rashida thlaib/m3xico/ EU/........

 

[KuanTi01]

The self-conceited Trumpet thinks he is the master of psychology. In the first place Xi Jinping most likely regarded him as a dotard as described by fatty Kim instead of a friend.

 

[Tony Tan]

Lets see. Its trump v china/ russia/ north korea/ nato/ turkey/ iran/ federal reserve/ ilhan omar / rashida thlaib/m3xico/ EU/........

You cannot miss out Cuba & Venezuela....

Only friends of Dotard is @Leongsam & the IMH most acute wards!

 

[Tony Tan]

https://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2019-08-24/doc-ihytcern3157532.shtml

中国的工具篮都是反制美国的实锤 耐心等待你迷途知返

中国的工具篮都是反制美国的实锤 耐心等待你迷途知返



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它们每一样都关系到美方的切实利益。
国务院关税税则委员会北京时间星期五晚上公布了对原产自美国商品加征新关税的计划，将有5078个税目、约750亿美元的商品被加征10%、5%的关税。它们将在9月1日和12月15日分两批实施。这个时间对应了此前美国宣布对3000亿美元中国商品加征10%关税的时间。

国务院关税税则委员会同时还宣布将在12月15日恢复对美国汽车和零部件加征25%和5%的关税。

本报通过国务院关税税则委员会的官网查询，看到这批税目中包括大豆等美国农产品以及能源等产品，但不包括很多医疗和医药产品，青霉素等抗生素除外，这显然是为了减少这轮措施对中国人的健康需求产生负面影响。中国每年都进口一定数量的药品和医疗器械，但我们已经是青霉素的出口国。此外，中国可以通过进口巴西、阿根廷等国的大豆来冲抵减少进口美国大豆对中国消费市场的影响。
这次对美国商品加征关税落下实锤，显示了中国对贸易战践行“不愿打、不怕打、必要时不得不打”这一原则后两句话的坚定决心和稳定态度。中国从不主动升级中美贸易战，但当美方增加对华极限施压的新砝码时，中国一定会回敬以必要的措施，让美方蒙受相应的损失。中国这一“规定动作”的发生十分准时，而且货真价实。

中国的工具篮子装的可不是一些口号，它们每一样都关系到美方的切实利益。中方知道贸易战是项糟糕的选择，同时对美方声称它们通过贸易战使得经济不损反赢的虚张声势看得透透的。我们深信经济规律比美国政府的操纵力要强大得多，也知道中方新的反制措施同样会给美国经济带来新的痛感。
中美两个大国相互陪伴着承受贸易战之痛，这一令人遗憾的局面并非中国推动形成的。中国是中美贸易战的被动方，是讲理、对原则亦很坚持的后发制人者。中国不惹人不惹事，但中国也是很不好惹的，我们的这一形象相信已在这个世界上越来越完整、可信。
美方积极鼓吹“用贸易战击垮中国”的精英们一直在炫耀华盛顿的实力和他们“现在就要解决中国问题”的“使命担当”，而实际情况是，美方早就露出了对华贸易战的疲态，经济衰退的警报不时响起，而贸易战被普遍认为是第一祸因。对华贸易战受到的道义指责也此起彼伏，越来越形成声势。

中美贸易战已经成为地地道道的消耗战，经济规律告诉人们，中美将付出大致相当的代价。它将对中国经济接下来的增长方式产生一定影响，但它不可能对中国继续发展构成决定性的障碍。中国发展的根本动力存在于中国内部，这么大国家的兴衰不可能由外力来决定。美方一些人宣扬中国现代化是从美国“偷来的”，美国“重建”了中国，这样的妄自尊大非常可笑。
自贸易战打响以来，中国从来没有狂怒过，从没有喊“豁出去了”，或者“与美国拼了”。我们总是坚决反制，同时不拒绝美方打着打着提出的谈判主张。这恰是中国能长期坚持下去的清晰表现。中国在中美关系剧烈动荡的时候保持了一般大国做不到的冷静，这是我们力量充裕、心中有底的结果。
美方一定没想到中国这么经打，它大概想象不出当今世界上还有美国使出全部力气施压却“我自岿然不动”的国家，而且中国不仅不垮，同时做到了不乱，并且在一招一式地对它予以回击。不错，这就是中国。我们愿意并且有耐心等待美国的对华政策迷途知返。（本文系《环球时报》今日社评，原标题“中国的工具篮里都是反制美方的实锤”）



China's tool baskets are all countering the American hammer. Wait patiently for your lost.
China's tool baskets are all countering the American hammer. Wait patiently for your lost.
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Each of them is related to the tangible interests of the United States.

The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council announced on Friday night the plan to impose new tariffs on US goods. There will be 5078 tax items and about US$75 billion worth of goods subject to 10% and 5% tariffs. They will be implemented in two batches on September 1 and December 15. This time corresponds to the time when the United States announced a 10% tariff on the $300 billion Chinese goods.

The State Council Tariff Commission also announced that it will resume tariffs on US cars and parts by 25% and 5% on December 15.

The newspaper, through the official website of the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, found that the tax items included US agricultural products such as soybeans and energy products, but did not include many medical and pharmaceutical products, except for antibiotics such as penicillin. This is obviously to reduce this round of measures. The health needs of Chinese people have a negative impact. China imports a certain amount of medicines and medical equipment every year, but we are already an exporter of penicillin. In addition, China can offset the impact of importing US soybeans on the Chinese consumer market by importing soybeans from Brazil and Argentina.

This time, the tariff imposed on US goods has been put down, showing that China has a firm determination and stable attitude toward the trade war after practicing the principle of “do not want to fight, not afraid to fight, and have to fight when necessary”. China has never actively upgraded the Sino-US trade war, but when the US increases its new weight on China's limits, China will certainly retaliate with the necessary measures to allow the US to suffer corresponding losses. The occurrence of this "specified action" in China is very punctual and genuine.

China's tool baskets are not some slogans, they are all related to the tangible interests of the United States. The Chinese side knows that the trade war is a bad choice, and at the same time, it is transparent to the bluff that the US claims that they have made the economy uncompromising and win-win through trade wars. We are convinced that the economic law is much stronger than the US government's manipulation. We also know that China's new counter-measures will also bring new pain to the US economy.

The two great powers of China and the United States are accompanied by each other to bear the pain of the trade war. This regrettable situation is not driven by China. China is a passive side of the Sino-US trade war. It is a post-production person who is sensible and adheres to principles. China is not irritating, but China is also very difficult to provoke. Our image is believed to be more and more complete and credible in this world.

The US actively advocates that the elites who "kill China with trade wars" have been showing off the strength of Washington and their "missions to deal with China's problems now." The reality is that the US has long exposed its trade war with China. The fatigue, the warning of the economic recession sounded from time to time, and the trade war is generally considered to be the first cause. The moral accusations against the trade war against China have also come one after another, and more and more forms a momentum.

The Sino-US trade war has become a terrible war of attrition, and the economic law tells people that China and the United States will pay roughly the price. It will have an impact on the way the Chinese economy grows next, but it cannot pose a decisive obstacle to China's continued development. The fundamental driving force for China's development lies within China. The rise and fall of such a big country cannot be determined by external forces. Some people in the United States have advocated that China’s modernization is “stolen from the United States” and that the United States “reconstructed” China. Such self-respect is very ridiculous.

Since the beginning of the trade war, China has never been angry, never shouting "going out" or "striving with the United States." We are always resolutely countering, and we do not reject the negotiating ideas put forward by the US. This is precisely the clear performance of China's long-term adherence. China has maintained a calmness that cannot be achieved by the general powers during the turbulent Sino-US relations. This is the result of our abundant strength and bottom.

The United States must have never imagined that China has been so beaten. It probably cannot imagine that there are countries in the world today that have exerted all the strength and pressure, but "I am not moving." It is back in one stroke. Yes, this is China. We are willing and patient to wait for the US's China policy to be lost. (This article is the "Global Times" today's editorial, the original title "China's tool baskets are counter-productive US hammers")

 

[greedy and cunning]

if americunt dont create a war
how are they going to pay back the huge debts

the americunt dont have the intention to pay

creating trouble everywhere and eventually a war
if their game plan.

 

[condom_loong]

if americunt dont create a war
how are they going to pay back the huge debts

the americunt dont have the intention to pay

creating trouble everywhere and eventually a war
if their game plan.

USA is in a situation to die regardlessly, any which way also found no way out to survive. MAGA will also die faster.

So must go to the most express way to die = to be killed by arch rival at a big time all out war.

 

[condom_loong]

https://mil.news.sina.com.cn/china/2019-08-24/doc-ihytcern3164893.shtml

美媒：美太空防御战略失败 太空竞赛正输给中国

2019年08月24日 09:36 环球网



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美国《外交政策》杂志8月22日文章，原题：第二次太空竞赛，美国正输给中国？ 当前的美国太空防御战略还不够，正走向失败。特朗普总统关于建立太空军的设想足够大胆，正如他在6月18日所说：“美国仅仅是在太空存在还不够，我们必须主导太空。”但是美国空军与这个设想还不匹配。相反，（美国空军）领导层目前专注于对现有设备和组织结构的逐步改进。
美军太空规划者正准备重复他们在20世纪80年代时所想象的冲突，但事实上从来没有发生。与此同时，中国正在执行一个在当今世界上能够获胜的战略，努力朝着主导未来的太空市场方向前进，未来的太空市场决定着下一个世纪。他们正在规划太空的基础设施，这将控制21世纪的电信、能源、交通和制造业。这样一来，他们将获得万亿美元的收入以及深层次的能力，这些能力来自持续的太空活动经验。这将赋予中国太空支配地位。
尽管政策和情报界很多人都很清楚中国正在做的事情，也一直向领导层提出警告，但是空军领导层还是说服白宫只向更好一点的卫星指挥部提供资金支持，同时给他们过时的思维贴上新的标签。拥有卫星指挥权的美国太空军绝不会实现特朗普发出的主导太空的号召。

中国即将获得的主导地位将抵消美国的地缘政治力量，能使北京控制来自太空高地的全球信息流。中国积极投资太空太阳能将使其有能力向世界提供便宜、清洁的电能，从而取代美国的能源公司。具有重要意义的是，类似的轨道电站具有军民两用的潜在价值，如果设计合理，则能够作为强大的进攻性武器平台使用。
在这个过程中，中国的第一步是征服这个日益增长的小型航天器发射市场。北京向商业公司提供政府制造的运载火箭，这些公司因此能够在市场上以较低的成本价格推销发射服务。这些初创公司的发射价格已经比美国低了80%。基于中国之前通过倾销成功地取代了美国的发达产业，比如太阳能发电和无人机，中国将很快向上游进军，打败一流的美国发射服务提供商，获得全球性的商业垄断地位。拥有这个发射市场将在卫星互联网、成像和电力方面赋予他们一个美国竞争对手不可逾越的优势。（作者格雷格·奥特里、史蒂夫·夸斯特，陈一译）


US media: US space defense strategy failed, space race is losing to China
August 24, 2019 09:36 Global Network
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US Foreign Policy magazine August 22 article, original title: The second space race, the United States is losing to China? The current US space defense strategy is not enough, and it is failing. President Trump’s idea of building a space army is bold enough, as he said on June 18: “The United States is not enough in space alone, we must dominate space.” But the US Air Force does not match this vision. Instead, the (US Air Force) leadership is currently focusing on gradual improvements to existing equipment and organizational structures.

US space planners are preparing to repeat the conflicts they imagined in the 1980s, but in fact never happened. At the same time, China is implementing a strategy that can win in today's world, striving to move toward the future of the space market, and the future space market will determine the next century. They are planning the infrastructure of space, which will control telecom, energy, transportation and manufacturing in the 21st century. In this way, they will receive trillions of dollars in income and deep-seated capabilities from sustained space activities. This will give China space dominance.

Although many people in the policy and intelligence community are well aware of what China is doing and have been warning the leadership, the Air Force leadership has persuaded the White House to provide financial support only to a better satellite command, while giving them an outdated mindset. Paste a new label. The US space force with satellite command will never realize Trump’s call for dominant space.

China's upcoming dominance will offset the geopolitical forces of the United States and enable Beijing to control global information flows from space highlands. China's active investment in space solar energy will enable it to provide cheap, clean electricity to the world, replacing US energy companies. Significantly, similar orbital power stations have the potential value of both military and civilian use, and if properly designed, can be used as a powerful offensive weapon platform.

In this process, China's first step is to conquer this growing small spacecraft launch market. Beijing provides commercial-made launch vehicles to commercial companies, which are able to market launch services at a lower cost. The launch price of these startups has been 80% lower than in the United States. Based on China's previous successful dumping of developed industries in the United States through dumping, such as solar power and drones, China will soon march upstream, defeating top-notch US launch service providers and gaining a global commercial monopoly. Having this launch market will give them an insurmountable advantage in satellite Internet, imaging and power. (Author Greg Ortri, Steve Quast, Chen Yi translation)




https://www.houstonchronicle.com/op...ing-the-space-race-against-China-13536382.php


We’re losing the space race against China [Opinion]

By Namrata Goswami Jan. 15, 2019

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In a file image from NASA, the iconic photograph taken by astronaut William A. Anders aboard Apollo 8 on Dec. 24, 1968. It was on that mission that astronauts orbiting the moon saw Earth rising for the first time. (NASA)
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In October, as Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man” arrived in theaters, the movie provoked an uproar over what it didn’t show: The moment when Americans planted a flag on the moon. But in trying to affirm American greatness, the movie’s critics only illustrated how far behind the United States has fallen in the space race. While they were squabbling over “First Man,” China was preparing to launch Chang’e 4, a lunar mission that achieved landing on the far side of the moon on Jan. 2.

China aims to be the leading space power by 2045, and the country’s vision significantly differs from the imperatives that drove the United States and U.S.S.R during the Cold War. What mattered then was planting a flag and then moving on to some other show-off stunt.

By contrast, China is focused on establishing a permanent presence in space. China views space, especially the area of space including Earth’s moon, as directly connected to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Last week, China established an important foothold toward resource exploitation by landing on the far side; the United States needs two to three years before its first robotic missions touch down on the moon. The relative lead on space resources could determine who is the dominant power in the years to come.

The stakes are high: Who will be able to obtain the vast resources in space, for example, water/ice, iron, titanium, platinum and nickel; secure the routes of trade; and write the rules of space commerce such as trade in energy propellant and precious metals; who will benefit from the military power that flows from that industrial might? Most people think about space exploration; what matters to the future of power is space exploitation. In the United States, the discussion on space exploitation is led by a disorganized commercial sector; within China, the discourse on space resources is led by the Communist Party of China and President Xi Jinping.

China’s space strategy involves building a lunar industrial infrastructure for cost-effective access to deep space. The Chang’e 4 is the first step: demonstrating the ability to communicate, land, survey and surveil the location for a future industrial and logistical base. This mission secures China’s access to the resource rich lunar south pole and establishes first presence to exploit space resources, industrialize the moon to build a solar power satellite, and mine the moon and asteroids for their vast wealth. It is the first step toward colonizing the moon. Chinese officials see the lunar south pole as a future base, very similar to how navies viewed coaling stations in the mid-1800s.

In the age of steamships, the reach of a nation’s navies and merchant ships were determined by where they could stop and refuel with coal. Nations competed to gain key coaling stations such as Hawaii. Today, nations are limited in the reach of their space power by the unavailability of in-orbit rocket fuel. It takes about 19 tons of propellant just to get a single ton of payload into space. That makes it very difficult to do ambitious things beyond Earth’s surface.

But getting a ton of payload off the moon requires only one ton of propellant. That’s a tremendous logistical advantage. The most powerful chemical rocket fuel is made by combining hydrogen and oxygen, by separating the elements of water. It is estimated that there are hundreds of millions of tons of water at the lunar poles — enough to fuel countless missions to the farthest reaches of the solar system; to access the wealth of the asteroid belt; to extend logistics to enable massive industrialization; to develop military logistics in the space near Earth.

By 2030, China aims to send robotic probes to the north and south poles of the moon. The race to watch is not China’s manned lunar landing but the race between China’s robotic prospectors and NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, as this will determine each nation’s relative advantage in accessing and exploiting lunar resources.

China is best placed to win a space race, given its well-coordinated, disciplined, technocratic system, able to set and maintain long-term goals, with a vast population and talent base.

The United States is disorganized regarding space and cannot offer a serious challenge to the long-term plans China is setting in this domain. Neither the American people nor the U.S. military seems to perceive the significance of what China is doing strategically in the Earth-moon space. They see it through the lens of their own Cold War experience, assuming the motivations China harbors are akin to that of the erstwhile U.S.S.R. — for global prestige and simply ticking of boxes — when they are not.

At stake isn’t simply prestige here on Earth: It’s whether the future of space exploration, resource development and colonization will be democratic or dominated by the Communist Party of China and the People’s Liberation Army of China. The American people should think hard about whether they want to cede the next century — and the next frontier — to a different government with a very different set of values.

Goswami is an independent senior analyst and author of “Outer Space and Great Powers.”



https://theweek.com/articles/451227/undertheradar-space-race-china--losing

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The U.S. is in an under-the-radar space race with China — and it's losing



Eugene Chow

Step it up, America. (NASA Images)






The Jade Rabbit is the cute face of China's space program; from its initial "soft" landing on the moon to engineering complications that mean it may never "reawaken" from its "first lunar slumber," the unmanned rover has received the kind of adoring coverage typically reserved for panda cams. But all of China's ambitions in space are not so friendly: Over the past decade, the country has been quietly militarizing the cosmos and it's gunning for the United States.
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been space's sole superpower, and it's not ceding that status without a fight. But in this hushed race for control of the orbit around Earth, China doesn't need to control everything to win; it just needs to take away the U.S.' strategic advantage. And it's doing so by turning the U.S.' own strength against it.
During a period of remarkable technological advancement, the U.S. pioneered, among other things, ground breaking GPS technology, integrating it to great effect in every aspect of its economic and military operations. From guiding smart bombs to smartphones, from early warning systems to surveillance, the superiority of U.S. military and civilian capabilities are heavily dependent upon satellites — making them a high priority target in a conflict.
To make matters worse for the U.S., American satellites are largely defenseless and difficult to replace; it wouldn't take much, in other words, to deal a crushing blow to the superpower's military might. Armed with that knowledge, China has been aggressively working on Anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapon systems.
In 2007, China shocked the world when it successfully destroyed an orbiting weather satellite with a specially designed missile. China has continued to perfect its anti-satellite missiles since then, but it has also pursued alternative methods to knock out satellites after it learned the hard way that blowing things up in space creates massive debris clouds that can accidentally damage or destroy its own satellites (see: Gravity).
To that end, China's military has invested heavily in jamming technology and cyber attacks along with more experimental weapons like high-energy lasers, and last year China successfully tested a satellite with a mechanical arm that could be used to attack or alter the orbit of other satellites.
Not to be outdone, in 2008, the U.S. sent a strong signal of its own by also shooting down a satellite with a newly developed anti-satellite missile. Meanwhile, last year, the Pentagon officially announced its program to develop anti-satellite weapons and defensive systems.
The space race is on, but in a potential conflict, the U.S. is automatically at a disadvantage given its reliance on satellites; China is not nearly as dependent on space for its military capabilities on earth as its still modernizing military largely relies on conventional weapons.
In a Congressional hearing on China's military space capabilities on Jan. 28, Ashley Tellis, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace explained that US capabilities are too concentrated in too few satellites which are "remarkably vulnerable."
More troubling, the U.S. lacks the ability to quickly replace damaged satellites despite their importance in military operations.
"It's going to take a long time to get replacements up there," said Michael Krepon, a senior associate at the Stimson Center. "We're having trouble building satellites on time and on budget."
In contrast, China currently leads the world in annual space launches. With an arsenal of over 100 satellites in space, it is just a few shy of eclipsing Russia as the second largest satellite owner in the world. The U.S. has more than both combined, but again, it is that dominance that makes the U.S. vulnerable. While China may be rapidly closing the gap, it still remains far less reliant on space.
But, in many ways, the U.S. has been its own worst enemy in the military space race.
For instance, in 2010, the U.S. Air Force nearly lost a critical $2 billion communications satellite barely a day after it was launched because a contractor left a rag inside a fuel line. In an interview with The Diplomat, an anonymous space industry insider explained that egregious errors like forgotten rags are due to dramatic fluctuations in funding for space programs, which have resulted in missing generations of space engineers.
It is common for U.S. Air Force programs to be filled with "80-year-old PhDs and 20-year-old college grads," the insider said. With so few mid-level engineers to properly train new hires and pass on valuable skills, "the zero-practice grads make simple mistakes." Additionally, this skills gap has resulted in the loss of critical technical expertise like the ability to conduct complex orbital maneuvers.
For the foreseeable future, the U.S. space program is likely to continue to be in a precarious position given looming budget cuts and Congressional wrangling over funding priorities. For the current fiscal year the unclassified space budget is $8 billion, a 22 percent cut from the previous year, and next year's budget would cut more than half a billion dollars from key satellite programs.
Without a significant commitment to defending what is arguably its most important and vulnerable military assets, the U.S. will be at a considerable disadvantage in a full-scale conflict. But while the U.S. may be losing the space race to China for the time being, the path to victory is clear.
Robert Butterworth, the president of Aries Analytics, succinctly states that the key to the space race is research and development, but to keep the technological edge and invest in new capabilities "we're going to have to take it from design up" and it's "going to take a helluva lot of money."
In an age of austerity, will Washington pony up?



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