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Winning is reaching a better agreement than we have now. China is still considered a developing country by the WTO, it's very difficult to get into the Chinese
by ThomPete 8y ago
Winning is reaching a better agreement than we have now.
China is still considered a developing country by the WTO, it's very difficult to get into the Chinese market and they don't actually enforce IP rights which is a problem both for the US and EU.
- adventured 8y agoThe EU does indeed have the same issues. The single best move Trump can make, is to resolve NAFTA (looks likely), then strike a deal with the EU (also looks likely), along with Japan (up in the air). The EU has very openly stated that they have the exact same problems with China as the US does. They couldn't any further telegraph their interest in conspiring with the US to tame China's abuses. Indeed it may be the only way to do it, you need truly immense pressure to get China to change behavior, more than the US can bring to the table by itself.
- ThomPete 8y agoWhich is also why it's absurd the EU goes out of their way to distance them from the US because of Trump. He is in the right on this one despite his style but sometimes that's what you need.
- debacle 8y agoLook at what they do, not what they say. What Merkel says at a podium doesn't matter. It's what she says behind closed doors that matters.