In a far-reaching foreign policy interview with the Wall Street Journal, President-elect Donald Trump is taking it more clear where he stands on policy with respect to both China and Russia. In particularly with respect to Russia, he appeared to be backing away from previous talks of quick normalization of ties.
In fact, Trump insisted that he is not going to remove Obama-imposed sanctions on Russia right away, something that was assumed by most reports given comments both from Russian officials and other figures on the Trump transition team. Instead, Trump says he will leave the Russia sanctions intact, pending Russia “really helping us.”
Trump did, however, say that he would remove the sanctions if Russia helps him reach his “goals,” insisting that there would obviously not be sanctions “if somebody’s doing some really great things.”
With respect to China, Trump remained more overtly hostile, insisting that everything with respect to China is up for negotiations, as he condemned China’s currency manipulation as unfair to US manufacturers, and insisted that the long-standing “One China” policy was conditional on China making serious reforms.
Trump had already raised questions about the “One China” policy by taking a phone call from the President of Taiwan, a country the US simultaneously heavily arms and does not recognize it’s existence. The call angered China, and Chinese officials have further criticized Trump’s incoming cabinet, with Secretary of State-nominee Rex Tillerson having called to deny China access to Chinese-made islands.
Same old, same old…
What could possibly go wrong, for Russia? Let’s see, Exxon has over 230,000 sq. miles of drilling rights in Russia they can’t access because of sanctions. But now it looks like the 2 Putin Pawn peas in a pod, Trump/Tillerson will find a reason to lift the embargo and walla billions of dollars of big oil windfall. Remind me is that in the U S interest or Putin/Trump/Tillerson’s interest?
The embargo’s should have never occurred in the first place. That being said, Obozo is doing what he can to start WWIII with Russia before the 20th, so Trump’s “waffling” on the subject could be a bid to defuse the neocons before then….
I think there’s a pretty good possibility that Obama isn’t going to start WW3 in the next week. LOL
Check out the stock market for indications though. Your forecast could make you rich!
luv from Canada.
Thank God we defeated Hillary.
With Trump winning the election, Mr. Putin and others can simply wait for Trump to become President and ignore the attemps of Obama to try to start yet another war.
But, if Hillary had won, this would be a very scary time with rising escalations leading possibly to a nuclear war.
Every living being on the planet who doesn’t want to die in a nuclear fireball or in the nuclear winter that would follow should be down on their knees thanking whatever Gods they pray to that Hillary lost.
Trump is a good negotiator. He’s not going to give anything away before negotiations begin. That said, I’d fully expec that reducing sanctions is something that Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin could discuss at a summitt meeting.
Maybe he just wants to live a little longer. Watch and wait. He knows he is going to have to be very sly if he wants to beat the deep state. I believe he has brought his enemies close with his picks for his staff, and they will be careful not to step out of line. There is a lot riding on this.
Yes, undoubtedly the deep state is going to kill Trump if he doesn’t follow through on his promises to bring about friendly relations with Russia.
Better that, a bullet, instead of what the lowlife pigs are going to want to do with him when he renegs on every single promise he made to get their votes. Angry will not serve to describe that reaction which is coming soon!
luv from Canada.