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Two Scoops Of Crazy: Insane Trump Border Wall Presser, WaPo China Bombshell Blindside Markets
It's hard to know what to make of the administration's China "strategy" at this point.
One day, Trump is sitting across the table from Xi in Buenos Aires having an amicable chat over dinner about deescalating trade tensions and implementing a 90-day ceasefire, and the next day (or actually no, it was the same day and, by some accounts, at the exact same time), the U.S. is compelling Canada to arrest high profile Chinese executives in Vancouver.
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Notice how Pence is sitting there leaning as far as possible from Trump, ” I am no part of this bat crazy shit spewing out of his mouth”.
It doesn’t occur to them (whoever requested the arrest in Vancouver of Ms Meng) that they were throwing their best Ally, Canada, ‘under the bus’ by requesting this.
Hardly anything ever occurs to them.
Throwing people (or in this case an allied country) under the bus is what they are best at, though.
Be best, you know?
At least, in the UK, they have a mechanism to get rid of a dud. A simple vote of no confidence will do it.