China's Top WTO Trade Negotiator Is Saying That He Wants 'Want Trump To Get Re-Elected'

Long Yongtu, China’s former vice-minister of international trade and the point man in the country’s nine-year negotiations to join the World Trade Organisation in 2001, during an interview at Credit Suisse’s China Investments Conference in Shenzhen on November 7, 2019. Photo: Yujing Liu

SCMP: Trade negotiator who got China into WTO is rooting for Trump’s re-election because ‘Twitterer in Chief’ is easy to read

* The US president’s daily tweets to 67 million global followers make him ‘easy to read’, said the former trade envoy and point man for China’s WTO negotiations
* Trump is a transparent and realistic negotiator who is concerned only with material interests such as forcing China to import more American products, on which Beijing is able to compromise, Long said

Donald Trump, whose trade war with China has upended global supply chains and imperilled the world’s economic growth, would be most welcomed with another four years in the White House because he is easier to read than other American politicians, said the negotiator who led China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

The US president's daily Twitter posts broadcast his every impulse, delight and peeve to 67 million followers around the world, making him “easy to read” and “the best choice in an opponent for negotiations,” said Long Yongtu, the former vice-minister of foreign trade and point man during China’s 15-year talks to join the WTO nearly two decades ago.

“We want Trump to be re-elected; we would be glad to see that happen,” Long said during Credit Suisse’s China Investment Conference yesterday in Shenzhen.

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Update: China's Top Trade Negotiator: "We Want Trump To Get Re-Elected" (Zero Hedge)

WNU Editor: My contacts in China are saying the opposite. They want to see President Trump lose. As to who do they want to be the next President of the United States. Since yesterday they are rooting for this guy (see below).