Are you f**king kidding me! The Vice President goes to China and tells the President of China they will get a Cold War with the uSA if they start it! This is Trump "diplomacy?"
"Pence vows no end to tariffs until China bows"
Reuters 16 Nov 2018
"Pence: It’s up to China to avoid a cold war"
Josh Rogin Opinion - 13 Nov 2018
"ABOARD AIR FORCE TWO, ABOVE THE SOUTH CHINA SEA — When President Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Argentina later this month, the escalating tension between the world’s two global powers will face a crucial test. If China wants to avoid an all-out cold war with the United States and its partners, it must fundamentally change its behavior, according to Vice President Pence. The United States, he assured me, won’t back down."
This is interesting. Can the USA bully China into a win-lose proposition on trade by saying a Cold War is the end game?
Ha! It's a joke! It's stupid. Do Trump and Pence even understand the last Cold War lasted about 50 years and came out of a hot war? Cold Wars are not sanctions, or whatever these two bumpkins seem to think they are. Wow!
"Pence told me in an interview that Trump is leaving the door open for a deal with Xi in Argentina, but only if Beijing is willing to make massive changes that the United States is demanding in its economic, military and political activities. The vice president said this is China’s best (if not last) chance to avoid a cold-war scenario with the United States."
Threats? China can last MUCH longer than Trump/Pence, Xi is President for life. Threats against China are silly, foolish, idiotic.
I suspect China will deflect and give Trump/Pence a way out, or Trump/Pence will fabricate some imaginary concessions for Xi to allow themselves a way out of this think they call a "Cold War."
"In addition to trade, Pence said China must offer concessions on several issues, including but not limited to its rampant intellectual property theft, forced technology transfer, restricted access to Chinese markets, respect for international rules and norms, efforts to limit freedom of navigation in international waters and Chinese Communist Party interference in the politics of Western countries."
Trump/Pence put all these issues on the table so they can catch a couple and claim total victory. An obvious game to make themselves look strong when the truth is they are weak, and will be gone in no more than 6 years. China can wait 6 years easy.
"“We seek an Indo-Pacific where every nation … is free to follow its own path and pursue its own interests, where the seas and skies are open to all engaged in peaceful activity, and where sovereign nations grow stronger together,” Pence said at a Tokyo news conference. “Authoritarianism and aggression have no place in the Indo-Pacific. And I know this vision is shared by the United States and Japan.”"
This sounds like a declaration of war to me . . . The USA is pitching America First in China's back yard! Trump/Pence want to push China out, and take advantage of Indo-Pacific nations. Any nation that goes along with Trump/Pence is stupid! Who can trust the USA Trump represents? Under Trump, America is for sale, America is the world's whore, and cannot be trusted.
"U.S. and Japanese officials negotiated a joint statement laying out several areas of cooperation intended to implement the Trump administration’s “Indo-Pacific strategy,” including coordination on liquefied natural gas projects, civil nuclear energy cooperation and development assistance cooperation that includes Australia. These “deliverables” are small but significant steps toward showing that the United States is not alone in providing a reasonable alternative for Southeast Asian and Pacific nations to China’s offers.
The trip itself is meant to show the United States has no intention of ceding influence or control over the region to Beijing."
Time will tell how this goes, and China has MUCH MORE TIME on its side!
"Pence’s China Speech Seen as Portent of ‘New Cold War’"
By Jane Perlez Oct. 5, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/world/asia/pence-china-speech-cold-war.html
