The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: RoosGirl on December 12, 2018, 04:56:16 am
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/12/huawei-cfo-arrest-trump-could-intervene-if-it-helps-us-china-deal.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/12/huawei-cfo-arrest-trump-could-intervene-if-it-helps-us-china-deal.html)
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would intervene with the U.S. Justice Department in the case against a Chinese telecommunications executive if it would help secure a trade deal with Beijing.
"If I think it's good for the country, if I think it's good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made — which is a very important thing — what's good for national security — I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary," Trump said in a wide-ranging interview with Reuters in the Oval Office.
Trump expressed optimism that he could strike a trade deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping as the two countries struggle to resolve a dispute that has contributed to recent U.S. stock market declines and raised questions about whether economic turmoil could beset the president in the new year.
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LOL. Trump is GOD!!!!!!
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Excuse me for thinking that a trade deal with China is not worth looking the other way on a Chinese company funding Iran.
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Excuse me for thinking that a trade deal with China is not worth looking the other way on a Chinese company funding Iran.
You are excused.
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What about the rule of law?
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His potential intervention may be moot. The executive in question has not been extradited to the US and has been released on $10M bail in Canada. They have given assurances she will not leave the country, but we will see.