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Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 9:53 a.m. No.15586581   🗄️.is 🔗kun

China Falls Woefully Short Of Commitments To Purchase US Goods Amid Biden Lack Of Enforcement

BY TYLER DURDEN

TUESDAY, FEB 08, 2022 - 09:45 PM

Trade data released on Tuesday morning shows a massive shortfall in China's 'Phase 1' purchases pertaining to 2020 trade deal promises inked under Trump, to meet a certain volume on American energy, soybeans, airplanes, and services, among other things. It suggests any claims of Biden's 'toughness' on China notwithstanding, the reality appears that Beijing is seeing through the US administration's supposed "firmness" on holding China to account.

 

Reuters observes of the numbers: "The data showed China missed by far its commitments to purchase an additional $200 billion worth of U.S. farm and manufactured goods, energy and services above 2017 levels - the year before a bitter trade war embroiled the world's two largest economies."

Source: Associated Press

 

Chinese leaders appear to be citing as the prime factor in the shortfall the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic, arguing that a specific clause in the trade deal necessitates consultations between the two governments "in the event that a natural disaster or other unforeseeable event outside the control of the Parties delays a Party from timely complying with its obligations."

 

According to a breakdown of the numbers reviewed in The New York Times China didn't come anywhere close to what it pledged:

 

In order to reach those targets, China would have needed to purchase at least $227.9 billion of U.S. exports in 2020 and $274.5 billion in 2021, for a total of $502.4 billion over the two years, said Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

 

But China did not come close, Mr. Bown said in an analysis of the trade data published Tuesday, buying only $288.8 billion, or 57 percent, of the American exports it promised.

 

At the same time, a separate NY Times report detailed that "The U.S. trade deficit in goods soared to record levels in 2021, topping $1 trillion as Americans continued to spend heavily on computers, toys, bicycles, clothing, pharmaceuticals and other goods made in foreign factories during the pandemic."

 

In an illuminating and blunt assessment given to Reuters by former USTR chief of staff Jamieson Greer, who was deeply involved in negotiating the Phase 1 deal, the admin still has the legal ability to pursue "retrospective enforcement for what's been missed," according to language embedded in the agreement.

 

"It's in the interest of the administration to pursue enforcement," Greer underscored. But he emphasized: "With a few kind of narrow exceptions, we haven't really seen that much enforcement" on trade matters from the Biden administration, he concluded according to Reuters. Meanwhile, US officials are much belatedlydemanding "concrete action" from China, which is likely only to continue shrugging off the feeble Biden admin demands.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/china-falls-woefully-short-commitments-purchase-us-goods-amid-biden-lack-enforcement

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 9:59 a.m. No.15586633   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Children cant vote. But their parents sure can.Rise up parents in NY & US vite them out and save your children from tyranny now

 

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1491468546513289218?s=20&t=z_5Y7EnrJeFhwhw95n3SUA

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 10:10 a.m. No.15586715   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6716 >>6721 >>6723 >>6756 >>6758 >>7107 >>7266

>>15586693

Mitch doubling down on betrayal to POTUS and Patriots

 

He chose the wrong hill to die on!

 

Jan Wolfe

McConnell calls Jan. 6 a "violent insurrection" and says the RNC shouldn't have censured Cheney and Kinzinger

 

https://t.co/wcE1EQRH9y

 

 

https://twitter.com/JanNWolfe/status/1491135618910670851?s=20&t=z_5Y7EnrJeFhwhw95n3SUA

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 10:20 a.m. No.15586803   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6819

Liz Cheney's Hunter Biden problem: Husband's firm reps China companies, dictatorial regimes

 

Philip Perry is a partner at Latham & Watkins, which works on behalf of foreign entities, including some flagged as threats to U.S. national security.

 

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) called on the U.S. to stand up to the "generational threat" posed by China while unveiling a major report on Beijing's "malign behavior" at the same time her husband's law firm was working on behalf of companies linked to China's military, intelligence, and security services.

 

As Cheney stood at the podium, her husband Philip Perry’s law firm was cashing in on legal and lobbying work that his employer — Latham & Watkins (LW), one of the largest law firms in the world — was doing for a host of Chinese companies, some of which were involved in the kind of activity that Cheney was warning had to be stopped.

 

All of LW's work discussed in this article was legal, and Perry didn't work directly on these accounts. But as a partner at the firm, he benefits and profits from all its work.

 

Perry's firm's work for Chinese entities and countries whose human rights abuses and authoritarian rule have troubled the U.S. for years seems to conflict with his wife's frequent calls for America to stand up to autocratic regimes like China. The dynamic is one familiar to longtime observers of Washington, D.C.: a power couple calling out the very behavior from which they benefit.

 

"It's the kind of say one thing do another that Americans hate in Washington, D.C.," former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Tuesday. "Liz Cheney will have a lot of explaining to do to the Wyoming voters."

 

In September 2020, House Republicans publicized the final version of an extensive report conducted by the China Task Force, a body comprised of 15 members of Congress, including Cheney. The review examined the multifaceted threat to the U.S. presented by the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

 

"China is rapidly developing a military force that is capable of winning regional conflicts and they're expanding their military footprint globally," Cheney said at a press conference where the report was unveiled. "The government of China and the Chinese Communist Party have gone to school on the United States — they've looked at our capabilities … and they have developed capabilities to counter those.

 

"We must counter the Chinese Communist Party globally as it seeks to establish more robust logistics and basing infrastructure around the world as it seeks to project its own military power. It is very important for everyone to note that we are in the midst of a battle between freedom and totalitarianism. The question we all face is whether the United States and our allies will set the rules of the road into the future or whether the Chinese Communist Party and that authoritarian, totalitarian regime will set the rules of the road."

 

The month before Cheney's press conference, LW "advised" Tencent, the mammoth Chinese technology company, on becoming a shareholder in Voodoo, a leading video game developer……

 

The CIA concluded Tencent received funding from the Chinese Ministry of State Security early on in its foundation when they were trying to build the so-called Great Firewall to censor the internet inside China, Foreign Policy reported in 2020. Tencent denied the allegations.

 

Tencent, which LW has represented on multiple occasions, has also been researching quantum computing since 2018 and is "entrenched in the Chinese government's high-tech, dual-use innovation drive," according to RWR Advisory Group, which highlighted several examples of Tencent's ties to the Chinese military. "These dual-use applications have been designated by the Chinese government as strategic military resources and key to civil-military fusion efforts."

 

Experts note the line between what's meant for civilian use and military application is non-existent in China.

 

"While the U.S. government often twists itself into knots determining what is classified or unclassified, the Chinese government often sees little-to-no distinction," said Craig Singleton, an adjunct China fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "Instead, Beijing is focused on collecting and harnessing any and all useful information to power its defense modernization. This includes everything from foundational knowledge taught on U.S. college campuses to cutting edge research, much of which is not technically classified but still has potential military applications."…

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/liz-cheneys-hunter-biden-problem-husbands-firm-represents

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 10:28 a.m. No.15586863   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>15586766

Now smearing the word “Freedom”, cancel culture at its finest. My leftie brother hates the word “Patriot” now.

 

Erasing history erases truth

 

Next it be “Free Will”, already replaced with “Civic Responsibility” to take care of others

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 10:36 a.m. No.15586916   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6972

Black Americans Wake Up, they intentionally want to kill more black people

 

Stop voting for the people that are engineering black Genocide in the US

 

https://twitter.com/RealSmurfingIRL/status/1491394266845032448?s=20&t=z_5Y7EnrJeFhwhw95n3SUA

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 10:39 a.m. No.15586942   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6959 >>7001 >>7192

il Donaldo Trumpo

 

Mike is testier than usual today…😂😂😂

https://t.co/51ZBHGV72q

 

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1491474127659614213?s=20&t=b0SidsKBsNLhyTQnw1PEuw

 

Kekkity-love the meme makers

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 10:45 a.m. No.15586991   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Pardon if reposted

 

Keep this for posterity

il Donaldo Trumpo

 

BOOOM!!! LOVE MI CHRISTINE ANDERSON!!!WE NEED MORE OF YOU IN THAT CORRUPT EU PARLIAMENT!!!

https://t.co/odF4UN8VsQ

 

 

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1491460748974907402?s=20&t=b0SidsKBsNLhyTQnw1PEuw

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 10:48 a.m. No.15587020   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7044

POTUS will have a big job, unraveling of the damage as an illegal president. Rest assured he’ll get it done quickly

 

https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1491444464220778497?s=20&t=uzESpeY0LtmZOX3INds4EA

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 10:51 a.m. No.15587056   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7127

Byron she doesn’t represent Wyoming, she represents China and DS

 

 

https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1491406377536954373?s=20&t=uzESpeY0LtmZOX3INds4EA

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 10:56 a.m. No.15587114   🗄️.is 🔗kun

 

He got too much attention. Twitter no likey

 

https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1491191973155418114?s=20&t=uzESpeY0LtmZOX3INds4EA

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 11:02 a.m. No.15587156   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Emails Show NYT Doing PR For Biden's Interior Department After Harassing Trump's

The New York Times is taking its cues from President Joe Biden’s Department of the Interior.

• After eight years of reporting on anything related to climate from the Obama administration as gospel, legacy media refused to cover the Trump team’s environmental initiatives with any sort of objectivity. Now the New York Times has returned to its PR-style coverage of friendly Democrats in the White House, taking explicit direction from administration officials.

• A series of emails between the Times and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s office, obtained by The Federalist through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, illustrates the stark contrast between how the paper of “all the news that’s fit to print” approached Trump’s environmental efforts and his incumbent successors.

• In an August email to Interior spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz, New York Times energy and environmental reporter Coral Davenport inquired about an appeal from the administration on leasing. The date of the message, Aug. 16, suggests Davenport was asking about the administration’s move to block a federal judge’s court order that overturned Biden’s ban on oil and gas leases on federal land.

• “I’m trying to understand what exactly is new – the decision already required the administration to resume leasing,” Davenport wrote. “We will not do a story about the appeal – I’m just trying to understand what, beyond the appeal, is substantively new.”

• Schwartz responded with a request that Davenport not write a story at all.

“More than happy for you to not write,” Schwartz wrote.

• A review of Davenport’s author page shows no story written on the topic in the days following the exchange.

• In another email one month later, Davenport apologized for asking questions related to the administration’s struggle to halt oil and gas exploration.

• “Sorry we are so annoying w oil & gas lease Qs,” Davenport wrote. “Could you give a call? Interested in what else might be coming down the pike.”

• A series of officials who worked on environmental issues under Trump, and whose post-government employment barred them from going on record, said the treatment was far different from how the New York Times, and Davenport in particular, approached the previous administration. According to the Washington Free Beacon, for example, the New York Times filed nearly four times as many FOIA requests with the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s first year than during President Barack Obama’s entire second term.

• One official from Trump’s Interior Department said Davenport was “awful” to work with and was among the worst culprits of activist journalism, often giving the agency 30-minute deadlines, if that, to offer statements on complex issues. Other former Trump officials said such conduct from the Times was routine practice.

• In another exchange with Schwartz, New York Times writer Elizabeth Williamson asked repeatedly for Haaland to sit for a profile interview. After Schwartz refused the request, Williamson pleaded and seemed to assure positive coverage.

• “I do think it’ll look a bit odd since so many of her colleague[s] sent and friends have spoken w[ith] me,” Williamson wrote in May last year. “This sometimes happens on tough stories but rather a mystery here! … I still hope she will reconsider.”

 

The profile that eventually ran painted Haaland in a glowing light despite the secretary’s first-person absence. Williamson instead spoke to members of Haaland’s New Mexico tribe, the Laguna Pueblo. The piece was even met with Interior Department approval.

 

“I just wanted to say that I thought the profile turned out really lovely,” Schwartz wrote the morning it ran.

 

“The Secretary asked me to pass on her appreciation and gratitude that you traveled to speak with Pueblo women,” Schwartz added moments later.

 

When presented with the correspondence between the Times and the Interior Department, former members of the Trump administration were aghast considering the paper’s animosity toward the agency’s Republican predecessors….

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/08/emails-show-new-york-times-doing-pr-for-bidens-interior-department-after-harassing-trumps/

Anonymous ID: 7be5d8 Feb. 9, 2022, 11:09 a.m. No.15587205   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Kekkity Always, when its news about Abrams. Not only children! Equal opportunity offender.

 

But to be fair shes probably 350+ pounds sbd she coulx die from lack of oxegen

 

https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1491105615132856320?s=20&t=uzESpeY0LtmZOX3INds4EA

 

Update, KFC delivered 10 buckets of chicken and gravy to her limousine, when she left the school. PLus biscuits and mashed potatoes. She has a condition of low blood sugar and must eat regularly