Friday, July 12, 2019

President Trump: China Is Not Buying Agricultural Goods As Promised




CNBC: Trump says China is ‘letting us down’ by not buying US farm products during trade talks

* President Donald Trump says China is not buying agricultural products as it said it would.
* The development could be a bad sign for efforts to reach an agreement to end a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

China is not purchasing U.S. crops as the world’s two largest economies scramble to end their trade war, President Donald Trump said Thursday.

The president tweeted that Beijing “is letting us down” by not buying American agricultural products “that they said they would.” The development could bode poorly for efforts to reach a trade agreement, as U.S. officials have said they expect China to purchase crops as part of ongoing talks.

“Hopefully they will start soon!” Trump said.

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Update #1: China fails to buy agricultural goods as promised: Trump (AFP)
Update #2: Trump says 'China is letting us down' on buying from U.S. farmers (Reuters)

WNU Editor: They lied.

3 comments:

RussInSoCal said...

I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find that China lied to us...

Anonymous said...

People like GWB played so nice with China. People like GWB would have continued to place nice with China. Jeb sure would have. So why did china have to fuck things up?

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