Kudlow: Tariffs Worth the Risk to ‘Correct 20 Years-Plus of Unfair Trading Practices with China’

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow argued that the tariffs the United States is set to levy on China were worth the risk, especially given the past two decades of what he called “unfair trading practices.”

Partial transcript as follows:

CHRIS WALLACE: What yard line are we on now and what set us back?

LARRY KUDLOW: Well, we may still be on the five or the seven, but as I said in that clip, that’s the — those are the toughest yards to get. So, look, the situation for us, from our standpoint, we were moving well, constructive talks and I still think that’s the case, we are going to continue the talks as the president suggested in his tweet on Friday.

But the problem is two weeks ago in China, there was backtracking by the Chinese, and we covered the same ground with Liu He this past week, Ambassador Lighthizer and Secretary Steven Mnuchin. We can’t forget this, this is a huge deal, broadest scope and scale of anything the two countries have ever had before, but we have to get through a lot of issues.

For many years, China trade, it was unfair, nonreciprocal, unbalanced, in many cases, unlawful. And so, we have to correct those and one of the sticking points right now as we would like to see these corrections in an agreement which is codified by law in China, not just the state council announcement. We need to see something much clearer. And until we do, we have to keep our tariffs on, that’s part of the enforcement process as far as we are concerned.

And as the president said, things seem to be taking too long and we can’t accept any backtracking. We are representing the United States, the economy, farmers, autoworkers, manufacturers, these are crucial parts of this discussion. So we want to be as sure as we can be.

We don’t think the Chinese have come far enough. We will wait and see. The talks will continue. And I will say this, the G20 meeting in Japan toward the end of June next month, the chances that President Trump and President Xi will get together at that meeting are probably pretty good.

WALLACE: So, you pointed out the president’s tweet on Friday where he seemed pretty conciliatory. In fact, the stock market, which I dropped dramatically on Friday with news that the talks, the negotiations had ended without any deal, rose on the kind of conciliatory, optimistic tone from the president and from Treasury Secretary Mnuchin.

The president was much more combative in a tweet yesterday, late yesterday. I want to put this up on the screen. I think that China felt that they were being beaten so badly in the recent negotiations that they may as well wait around for the next election, 2020, to see if they could get lucky and have a Democrat win. The deal will become far worse for them if it has to be negotiated in my second term.

That’s a lot tougher than the president was talking on Friday. How come?

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/12/kudlow-tariffs-worth-the-risk-to-correct-20-years-plus-of-unfair-trading-practices-with-china/

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Downer Denies Meeting Supposed to Launch FBI’s Russia Probe Was a Set-Up

Former Australian ambassador to the United Kingdom Alexander Downer has denied that the purpose of his 2016 meeting with George Papadopoulos, then-adviser to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, was to make the aide talk about Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

“I didn’t go to the meeting thinking he was going to even mention Russia in that context like the election campaign,” Downer told Sky News Australia in recent interview. “I had no idea what he would say.”

Papadopoulos has alleged that the Downer meeting was a set-up.

“The notion that Downer randomly reached out to me just to have a gin and tonic is laughable,” Papadopoulos said in a Sept. 10 tweet. “Some organization or entity sent him to meet me.”

In his book, “Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump,” Papadopoulos argues that Trump’s opponents tied to the American, Australian, and UK intelligence community orchestrated for Papadopoulos to receive a rumor of Kremlin’s having “dirt” on then-candidate Hillary Clinton, and then dispatched operatives, including Downer, to extract the rumor from him and use it as evidence of supposed conspiracy between Trump and Russia.

Downer denied that the FBI or any intelligence service asked him to meet Papadopoulos.

“Somebody who is a former foreign minister and Australian high commissioner, or ambassador, in London is hardly going to be somebody who’s used by intelligence services to collect information,” Downer said with a chuckle. “That would never happen. That simply isn’t how those kind of operations work.”

Downer’s assertion seems to gloss over the known hand-in-glove relationship between diplomacy and intelligence. A secret cable sent out by Clinton’s State Department in 2009, for instance, tasked diplomats to collect a plethora of information from their interactions with United Nations officials. The cable, published in 2010 by Wikileaks, indicates that intelligence collection by the diplomatic corps was already common practice at the time and, if anything, expanding.

Downer, later in the interview, even called himself “somebody who is part of the Five Eyes intelligence community.” Five Eyes is the agreement on sharing signals intelligence between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It has been criticized for opening a way for the countries’ foreign intelligence agencies to spy on their own citizens by outsourcing the task to each other and then sharing the results.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/downer-denies-meeting-supposed-to-launch-fbis-russia-probe-was-a-set-up_2920898.html

Even Opposition Admits Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ‘May Have’ Chemical Weapons

The former branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), is in possession of advanced weapon systems, that may include chemical weapons, Khalid al-Mahamid, a prominent figure of the Syrian opposition, admitted during a recent interview with the al-Arabiya al-Hadath TV.

“Al-Nusra [the original name of HTS] possess advanced weapons … Maybe chemical weapons … Maybe long-range rockets,” al-Mahamid said in the interview, which was broadcasted on May 11.

The opposition leader added that he personally has information on these “advanced weapons” and on what countries provided HTS with them.

Al-Mahamid is known as the godfather of the reconciliation process in southern Syria, which was agreed upon in 2018. The UAE-based businessman persuaded thousands of former FSA fighters in the governorates of Daraa and al-Quneitra to join the ranks of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) 5th Corps.

During the recent interview, al-Mahamid acknowledged that many sides had warned the Syrian opposition from HTS’ presence in Idlib. He also held Turkey responsible for the terrorist group’s growing influence in the northern Syrian governorate.

“We, as an opposition, bear a part of the responsibility, in all international meetings there was figures warning us from al-Nusra and how to deal with it,” al-Mahamid said.

Last year, al-Mahamid said in a similar interview that there is an “an international agreement” to eliminate HTS in Idlib, claiming that the U.S. had approved the agreement, which was organized by Russia.

Al-Mahamid’s remarks are in line with recent reports by Russian, Lebanese and Syrian sources, who claimed that HTS had received chemical weapons from foreign powers in order to stage an attack in Idlib. A chemical attack could justify a military action by the U.S. and its allies against Damascus government forces.

https://southfront.org/even-opposition-admits-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-may-have-chemical-weapons/

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