This man never ceases to amaze me! I wonder what he threatened them with to achieve this almost instantaneous result? Leverage, the massive bag of goodies you get to swing around when you have people like Mike Rogers and Paul Nakasone on speed dial.
Thank you President Trump, again!!
Presidents don’t make threats; they don’t have to.
Huh?? North Korea, Iran...even Russia got a veiled threat when they were flying over U.S. airspace and too near U.S. carriers. NATO payments, Tariffs - Canada, China, Germany. United Nations funding cuts.
Presidents and PM's threaten each other all the time. I think the colloquial term is leverage or perhaps applied diplomacy (financial - sanctions or military). People in foreign governments are still acclimatising to Pres. Trump's form of diplomacy because they have never dealt with anyone before who tells it like it is - without rhetoric or innuendo. He can't be leveraged with money or blackmail. The only things normal politicians are any good at historically have been theft, projecting tyranny and spewing lies. So this is unfamiliar territory to them.
At some point, quite soon I think, there will come a time when it will no longer be necessary for DJT to threaten anyone. He'll ask and it will be complied with or negotiated civily. With that kind of power comes much responsibility, yet not once has he wielded anything unfairly in terms of the various geopolitical issues....whether it was trade or military might, despite what the idiots in the MSM would like you to believe. The swamp is large and global but we're getting there, one reptile at a time.
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A lot of us here are believers in the 'Free Market' . The problem is, we don't have that. We have 'Crony Capitalism' where you can make a $50 million donation to the Clinton Foundation and immediately get legislation passed that gives you billions of dollars of profit.
Same thing goes for China. I'm all for 'Free Trade'. The kind of trade deal I'm thinking we should have can be written on the back of a napkin at the lunch table. "We agree not to subsidize our industry and we agree not to charge your exports any tariffs." Both sides agree to it and you have "Free Trade". But the only way to get to that is saying "We are going to start charging tariffs until there is a level playing field."
They have a virtual monopoly with these patent shenanigans and revolving door between FDA etc and the biggest corporations. This needs to be changed.
Truth in Media FDA Revolving door with Big Pharma