Thursday, 10 Oct 2019 01:00 PM MYT
Washington has slapped visa restrictions on senior Chinese officials and blacklisted more than two dozen Chinese firms, accusing both of persecuting ethnic Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region. He is as usual engulfed in turmoil, facing Democrats’ intensifying efforts to impeach him and Republicans’ stinging criticism for effectively allowing a Turkish assault on US-allied Kurdish forces by pulling American forces from northern Syria.
Earlier in the week, firebrand White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told NPR that Trump was uninterested in half measures, showing “steely resolve” instead.“It’s either a big deal or no deal,” he said, adding that any attempt to reach an incremental bargain would be a “miscalculation by China.” “I think it’s a way that the president can essentially have his cake and eat it too. He can say, look, I made progress on some real significant things but I’m still tougher than anyone else has ever been.”