Colleague Chris Riegel of the #SCALAREPORT notes that the exchange of threatened trade restrictions—both tariffs and bans—represents preliminary negotiations between China and the US toward a mutually beneficial trade deal.
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
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| 0:28.4 | listening. Terms apply. This is John Batchler. Colle colleague Chris Wigle of Scholar.com comments on |
| 0:35.7 | the news that the United States will deny China access to the very |
| 0:41.6 | best chips, the high end, the AI stuff, and China retaliates by saying it will deny the U.S. |
| 0:48.5 | to critical rare earths necessary for high-tech manufacturing. More threats from China include, |
| 0:55.9 | we're going to get rid of all the American ships in China. |
| 0:59.6 | Chris assesses this as The Art of the Deal. |
| 1:02.9 | Mr. Xi Jinping has read Donald Trump's book. |
| 1:06.5 | Never get into a deal you can't walk away from |
| 1:08.7 | and have something to trade when you get there. |
| 1:12.4 | Chris Wigle, art of the deal, what is to be done? |
| 1:16.7 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:18.3 | Correct. I would assure you with some certainty that Mr. Sheese read Mr. |
| 1:23.2 | Trump's art of the deal book. This is the posturing before the two sides come to the table. |
| 1:29.4 | China needs the U.S. much more than the U.S. needs China, but we do need each other. |
| 1:33.7 | And coming to a agreement in the middle that honors IP that stops fentanyl that balances trade a bit more is what I think is in the best case of both countries. |
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