'The United States and China are racing to clinch a historic economic treaty as early as next week that could drastically reshape relations between the world’s two largest economies. But as negotiations reach their final stages, the sensitive subject of human rights has been left conspicuously off the table.

China has faced growing condemnation from human rights groups in recent months for its detention of up to one million ethnic Uighurs and other minority Muslims in large internment camps in the country’s northwest region of Xinjiang.

But the Trump administration has studiously avoided rattling China by not raising the topic during the trade talks, viewing it as an impediment to securing what President Trump has said could be “the biggest deal ever made.”

Administration officials have declined to use any of the economic leverage the White House amassed through tariffs placed on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods to compel China to change its policies toward Uighurs. It has also backed away from imposing economic sanctions on Chinese officials believed to be involved in the repression of Muslims in the northwest.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/world/asia/trump-china-uighurs-trade-deal.html

WaPo has been banging them out today although is sometimes slow to update the articles. The NYT usually waits a bit until they have their stories mostly written before sending out their breaking banners.

I happened to glimpse the headline earlier, and it stayed with me because the Uighur matter concerns me.

A tariff is a tax on regular Americans. Trump's higher taxes.

$1.4 billion a month

https://www.google.com/search?biw=826&bih=338&ei=mxrPXPj4DoeH8AOo3bSAAQ&q=tariffs+costing+%241.4+billion+&oq=tariffs+costing+%241.4+billion+&gs_l=psy-ab.12..33i299j33i160l2.85939.107742..114204...1.0..0.208.4576.0j29j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j35i39j0i67j0i131j0j0i20i263j0i22i30.7u8mJn2rq3Y

It will further slow the economy. Hmmm, they tried this once before with the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, didn't they?


"The consensus view among economists and economic historians is that the passage of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff exacerbated the Great Depression,[16] although there is disagreement as to how much."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act

And it is not fair.

ramped up inventories before the first of the year expecting this to happen.

Folks have to understand,China is run by their Military,and their 30 year plan adopted a few months back. Is all about China being self sufficient well before that time frame. Understand,China is securing their food sources both at home and abroad,as well as their raw materials and energy needs.

Our lame ass Media is not reporting what the heck is really going on. All they care about is the next Presidential so called Horse Race they want to create.

The Chinese are true Capitalist and not like our Corportist's who just rape a corporation for it's profits and never put anything back. The Chinese Military knows that they are out numbered if they People go Hungry or are broke,they will come for them and it wont be pretty.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/pentagon-warns-chinas-increased-activity-arctic-growing-ambition/story?id=62803073

Africa. They the Chinese are setting up massive Grain and Food Growing operations in several Countries in Africa. BTW,the Chinese Government has purchased through straw buyers,tens if thousands of acres of Irrigated land in the California,Arizona and Nevada boundry area including all the water rights. Three years ago,they bought out the largest irrigated ranch in the Green River Utah area,again including the water rights.

I hope it hurts his stupid Maga supporters?

Do anything they can to help him lose the 2020 election for hurting them , which will only get worse from him no matter what they do. He'll demand more or else.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/06/markets-tumble-after-trump-threatens-to-dramatically-increase-china-tariffs

Markets tumble after Trump threatens to dramatically increase China tariffs

Martin Farrer with agencies

Mon 6 May 2019 08.03 BST

Global financial markets have been sent into a tailspin after Donald Trump risked jeopardising delicate trade talks with China by unexpectedly saying he would raise tariffs further on Chinese goods this week.

Stocks in China closed down 5.5% on Monday as investors in Asia Pacific were caught off guard by the US president’s tweets and the alarm intensified as reports indicated that the government in Beijing might pull out of this week’s scheduled talks.

Although markets are closed in Japan and London on Monday, the Dax in Germany was down 1.6%. Futures trading indicated that Wall Street would fall 2% when trading opens later on Monday. Oil prices – a benchmark for global trade – also plunged and the Chinese yuan tumbled.

Traders feared that Trump’s threat to raise tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods to 25% on Friday from 10% and then target a further $325bn of Chinese goods could destabilise global financial markets that had been boosted by what appeared to be encouraging progress in the negotiations.
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Certainly this guy has raised an eyebrow -