Beijing has called on the US to “completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures” if it wants trade talks, in some of China’s strongest comments yet on the impasse between the world’s two economic superpowers.
“The unilateral tariff measures were initiated by the US,” said He Yadong, a Chinese commerce ministry spokesperson. “If the US truly wants to solve the problem, it should . . . completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China and find a way to resolve differences through equal dialogue.”
Beijing has maintained that the US must make the first move to de-escalate the crisis, which is threatening to spark a hard decoupling between the two countries’ economies.
Chinese analysts argue that the US imposition of high tariffs make it difficult for Beijing to find a way to defuse the crisis.
China’s President Xi Jinping would find it difficult to engage personally with Trump on the trade war unless this was preceded by extensive negotiations to hammer out a deal, they say.
China is actually surprisingly good at exposing fake news and always tells the truth. The problem is to understand China you need to read between the lines.
Let’s go over some common things people say China lies about.
Uyghurs. China admitted they are arresting insurgents and possible insurgents. The read between the lines is they’re saying they’re putting them into schools. It’s schools like the Canadian native American schools, but schools none the less.
China is a military super power. This one confuses me. China themselves have stated they do not believe they will be a military super power until 2050. So how could they possibly be lying about being one already?
Russian military equipment. There’s constant streams coming out of China about how bad Russian equipment is. They’re constantly exposing this.
That’s the thing about China. They’re gonna tell you the truth, but the truth comes with caveats. The reason I’m saying this even though I’m sure people here will down vote me, since anytime I post about understanding China people seem to get riled up here, I want people to at least understand what China is saying. It’ll make a lot more sense if you read between the lines. And since China is now a superpower, it’d be good for me people to understand what they are saying. Even if what you end up learning is they are indeed torturing people.
Where is your evidence that the adult vocational training schools in Xinjiang are anything like the cultural erasure child boarding schools in Canada?
Where is your evidence of torture?