China Appeals To US Voters In White Paper: “Trump’s Trade War Has Not ‘Made America Great Again'”
Nobody gets particularly excited about the release of a white paper.
In fact, white papers are, almost by definition, yawners.
So it's probably not a stretch to say that China's white paper on the trade war (called "China’s Position on the China-US Economic and Trade Consultations") was one of the more hotly-anticipated white papers in recent memory. The bar for "hotly-anticipated white paper" is pretty low, and given the high-profile nature of the trade conflict, anything Beijing says offic
Trump will never read the logical views, albeit self-serving, in the White Paper since it’s more than 1 page long. While our ‘Disrupter-in-Chief’ is off to the U.K. to meddle in Brexit domestic politics there, and de-stabilize Europre while he’s at it (Putin must be smiling), he’ll likely get a ‘Barr-like’ interpretation from Navarro or Wilbur Ross that he must be ‘winning his trade war’ with China if the Chinese are resorting to a ‘White Paper.
Maybe Stephen Miller will propose to remove tariffs against ostriches. They are the most effective way to deal with coyotes.
are they really?
I will say the white paper is beautifully written (or translated) , while I’ve heard professional translators talk of the difficulty if not impossibility of translating what Trump is saying.