Somebody's Lying

The US and China held talks on Thursday to help resolve the trade war between the world’s two largest economies, Donald Trump said.

“We may reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we’ve been meeting with China,” the US president told reporters at the White House.
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The Chinese commerce ministry’s spokesperson He Yadong said there were “currently no economic and trade negotiations between China and the United States”.

“Any claims about progress in China-US economic and trade negotiations are baseless rumours without factual evidence,” he said, adding that if the US wanted “de-escalation” – as Trump’s Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has argued – it should “completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China and find a way to resolve differences through equal dialogue”.

Are there talks or are there no talks? Hard to say, but one thing we all know from years of experience: The FLOSS lies about everything. Everything he says is a lie, including the conjunctions and articles.

It should be clear to almost everyone but the most brain-addled Trumpanzees that the risks to the global economy come from just one lunatic with a crayon for signing his orders. China has Trump (and us) by the nuts and they know it. China sees this as an golden opportunity that has been handed to them by Trump to break what they see as American hegemony, and they'll make full use of it. Whatever hard times come to China, they'll sell it to their people as defeating the U.S.

The COFF and his minons bleat about the trade deals they are negotiating, but none have been announced. My guess is they think that Trump's going to fold once the hurt sinks in, so they'll string him along until that happens.