Trump Signs Executive Action On Trade Probe Of China

President Donald Trump holds up a signed memorandum calling for a trade investigation of China, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump holds up a signed memorandum calling for a trade investigation of China, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive action that asks his trade office to explore a possible investigation into China for the alleged theft of American technology and intellectual property.

Trump suggested at the Monday afternoon signing that additional steps would be taken against China on trade issues.

The president said as he signed the memo at the White House, “This is just the beginning.”

The action comes as the United States has been seeking help from China to curb North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons.

Trump wants government officials to dig into Chinese practices that force American companies to share their intellectual property in order to gain access to the world’s second-largest economy.

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  1. Okay, so are we keeping score? We’ve got North Korea, Venezuela, China… Anybody know if Palau has done anything to require military options to be on the table yet?

  2. The wörds: Yellow Peril

    Trump’s emerging Foreign Policy would divide the world on racial lines. Trump’s re-alignmment of international alliances with the worlds two white nations - US and Russia against China, is a photocopy of German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II’s alliance of eight white nations, including Russia Great Britain and France. They invaded China in 1897, ransacked Beijing and divided China among them. A cartoon at the time showed Queen Victoria, Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm and other leaders seated round the Yellow Peril cake or China ready to cut it.
    Trump routinely delivered anti non-white pronouncements during his election campaign to the sound of enthusiastic applause. He built a platform of white identity. politics, around villainization of non-white Asians in particular.
    Trump mocks Asians, using broken English and said, “When Asian negotiators enter a room they don’t say hello, instead they say deal. Trump’s bigoted rhetoric and abusive racist remarks are not new. “He is only distilling racial discrimination that existed from the 19th century Europe and America”. Observes sociologist, Jonathan Alter noted in the Daily Beast “Trump’s thinking about Asia is rooted in the tradition of Yellow Peril xenophobia. In Beijing, Lijia Zhang, a young journalist told Pilgers in 2016, “The idea of Yellow Peril has not left them”. Pilgers’ documentary records this fear of Yellow Peril with such evidence.

    http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Yellow-Peril-spectre-of-Trump-and-impact-on-Asia-Sri-Lanka-125343.html

  3. The action comes as the United States has been seeking help from China to curb North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons.

    And Rump is saying that the way to get that help is by looking into how many steps they can take against China regarding trade??? I mean - I just…

  4. When asked why it took him so long to condemn the hate groups by name, Trump did not say “I did condemn them,” but used the passive voice to distance himself from directly associating himself. instead he said, “They were condemned, they were condemned.” I call that a huge loophole.

  5. I don’t think he’s given up on Iran.

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