Premeditated Hate
and fear MSM style
It didn’t matter what Trump did, the Chinese could as it apparently happened reach out first or Trump initiate first contact, the rotten to their core MSM and fascistic leftists would still criticize Trump, trying to diminish anything he does right or wrong.
You need to know this going into a huge mid-term election not that far off that the left will lie, cheat, vilify, hate, steal and threaten trying to regain the House.
But behind closed doors, otherwise known as some face saving, things were not quite what the hateful MSM was telling you. They are liars and they have been lying to the public for a long, long time, especially on anything that has a connection to Trump or their favorite marginalizing name-calling choice, MAGA Heads.
They conveniently leave out—and it’s a huge game stopper they despise—that millions of non-MAGA folks helped put Trump in office. MSM is the enemy of hundreds of millions of people and must be held accountable now.
Here you have Reuters, a leftwing propaganda NYT-owned news outfit, playing up what they had to know was a false narrative to spread fear and premeditated hate.
“Three weeks ago, when we first reported that as a result of the ongoing Trump trade war with China, "chinese factories are shutting down, laying off workers", we said that as a result of this war of attrition in which the outcome of every incremental clash and battle will be used just as aggressively for media propaganda, "the fact that any marginal pain will be amplified as trade war weakness will mean that Beijing will do everything in its power to prevent the full extent of the shutdowns from being revealed."
“Sure enough, last week the WSJ reported that whereas "not long ago, anyone could comb through a wide range of official data from China... then it started to disappear."
“We detailed the unprecedented disappearance of Chinese "data", fake as it traditionally may have been, earlier this week. But while we had our theories why China quietly vaporized hundreds of data sets - naturally one wouldn't be deleting the data if it was good, or could at least be massaged in a credible way - it was not until today when a Reuters report confirmed what we said from day one, namely that in the long run China's economy has more to lose than the US, where the hit would be faster but would focus primarily on the market, and once the initial selloff shock wears off leverage would swing to benefit the White House.
“And just as we supposed, Beijing's unprecedented propaganda campaign, it was the cracks in the economy that forced Xi to the negotiating. According to the Reuters report, "since U.S. President Donald Trump imposed steep tariffs on China last month, Beijing had responded in kind. On state and social media, it posted images of Mao Zedong, lambasted "imperialists," and sent a message: capitulation to bullies is dangerous, and it wouldn't back down."
“But behind closed doors, China was quietly preparing to do just that, and Reuters reports that according three sources, officials had grown "increasingly alarmed about tariffs' impact on the economy and the risk of isolation as China's trading partners have started negotiating deals with Washington."
“China's reasons for deciding to negotiate, Washington's letter on fentanyl, U.S. diplomatic challenges in Beijing, and the early outreach between the two sides are reported by Reuters for the first time, based on interviews with nearly a dozen government officials and experts on both sides.
“As usual, China's diplomatic efforts had two faces, one for popular domestic consumption, and one for private engagement with the adversary, in this case the US.
“Sure enough, China's foreign ministry said in a statement to Reuters that it reiterated that "China's firm opposition to the U.S. abuse of tariffs is consistent and clear, and there is no change." It added that "the U.S. has ignored China's goodwill and unreasonably imposed tariffs on China under the pretext of fentanyl. This is a typical act of bullying, which seriously undermines dialogue and cooperation between the two sides in the field of drug control."
“In retrospect, the pretext may have been "fentanyl" but as we learn in a follow up report today from the WSJ, it was anything but a facade: according to the Journal, Xi Jinping is sending his top public-security aide to Switzerland as part of Beijing’s trade talks with Washington, signaling the importance of the fentanyl issue to bilateral relations.
“Wang Xiaohong, who is the minister of public security and a senior leader within the State Council, China’s cabinet, will be part of the Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier He Lifeng, a trusted aide to Xi and a gatekeeper to the world’s second-largest economy.... Xi has designated Wang, a close lieutenant, as the point person in Beijing’s recent discussions with Washington over how to address President Trump’s concerns about China’s role in the fentanyl trade, The Wall Street Journal has reported, helping pave the way for the weekend trade talks.
“So no, the US had not "ignored China's goodwill", and judging by Xi's response, clearly the issue of fentanyl is a very serious one, and more importantly, one which will allow Trump to score a quick and easy victory over the weekend, one which will further demonstrate the Trump admin's growing leverage in the ongoing negotiations.
“But back to the Reuters report, according to which China's Vice Foreign Minister Hua Chunying said on Friday that China has full confidence in its ability to manage U.S. trade issues, adding that "the Trump administration's approach cannot be sustained." Once again, however, we learn that it was China's approach which was far more unsustainable.
“The trade war between the world's two largest economies, combined with Trump's decision last month to impose duties on dozens of other countries, has disrupted supply chains, unsettled financial markets and stoked fears of a sharp downturn in global growth.
“After Trump's tariff salvo last month, China took a hard line in its public messaging. Beijing posted footage on its official social media feeds of a Chinese MiG-15 fighter shooting down a U.S. jet in the Korean War, with commentary: "China won't kneel down, because we know standing up for ourselves keeps the possibility of cooperation alive, while compromise snuffs it out."
‘The tone began to shift on April 30, when a state media-affiliated blog said the U.S. had "proactively reached out to China through multiple channels, hoping to discuss tariffs", commentary which according to the White House was a lie. Meanwhile, China was adamantly denying that there were any discussions taking place about trade talks, which was also a lie as just a day later we learned that discussions were in fact taking place ahead of this weekend's trade talks.
“CSIS's Kennedy said contacts between Chinese agencies, Beijing's embassy in Washington and the Trump administration had been increasing in frequency in recent weeks. Some in-person interactions took place at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in late April, including with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, which paved the way for the Swiss meeting, said Kennedy, confirming what we reported two weeks ago ( see "Chinese Delegation Spotted Entering Treasury Department, Demands Photos Be Deleted: Report".)
“More importantly, we also learn today that it was China that first reached out, more than a month ago.” More