harsher sanctions against the regime in north korea. that shows that on at least some level they re willing to play ball. but president trump has repeatedly said that china could do more. we as we look at 48 hours from now, president trump is going to be back in washington. that will be monday. announcing that he will direct his administration to investigate china s trade practices. how do you think china will react to this? well, the chinese will be expecting this, i think. there s no real mystery in the fact that the president trump has repeatedly said that he believes the u.s. gets a raw deal out of their trade relationship with china. you know some economists might beg to differ. but the u.s. officials telling cnn that monday night be the big announcement of an investigation into chinese trade practices. particularly on u.s. copyrights. something that i ve heard u.s. businessmen in china complaining for some years about. but the difficulty here is this
interested in following up. the best thing they have done in a while is vote for sanctions and the u.n. but that is still a vote as opposed to actually following it up with action. i think the chinese are in a little bit different situation with president trump, he has made it very clear in his past statements during the campaign that he was going to crackdown on chinese trade practices, their actions in the south china sea, their tough stance in the east china sea over taiwan. if china does not back the sanctions up and actually put their money where their mouth is when it comes to north korea, there ally, they are going to face the wrath of this presiden president. melissa: how did you read the signals, this seems a lot more hopeful than the president had that dinner, he had the chinese president with him there, he had sent those tomahawk missiles to syria, commented on how good it was, he left and thought he had made all kinds of progress with china and since then we saw the coa
nothing, nothing is more central to creating jobs and increasing take-home pay than rewriting our backward trade laws that have put foreign workers ahead of american workers. that s senate minority leader chuck schumer yesterday introducing policies to protect american workers from foreign competition. the challenge here the proposal essentially echoes donald trump s ideas. the plan is built on two main concepts preventing unfair foreign competition and supporting domestic industries. highlights include harsher punishments on incumbents that outsource and crack down and a crackdown on currency manipulation. the last one is directed right at china just as the trump administration considers launching an investigation into chinese trade practices. however, schumer counters their plan is about action, not investigation. this is the second phase of the democrats new economic platform called a better deal. it aims to appeal to the blue-collar workers that helped
investigation into chinese trade practices. schumer counters their plan is about action, not investigation. this is the second phase of the democrats new economic platform which they call a better deal. aims to appeal to the blue-dollar workers that help blue-collar workers that helped president trump into office. you see the democrats try to i think they wanted a mulligan on their first unveiling of better deal. like how trump plays golf, they duffed the first one and dropped the second ball, pretending that first shot never happened. i love your sports analogies. keep it going, dave. all right. ahead, the russian government speaking out about the sanctions bill signed by president trump. russia s prime minister slamming the bill and saying president trump has been humiliated. live to oren liebermann in moscow next. done.rs. super-cool notebooks. done. that s mom taking care of business. but who takes care of mom? office depot/office max. this week, filler paper just on
change. that kind of talk would have raised the hackles of the hawkish portion of the party and john mccain and you would have seen scathing editorials from people like lindsay graham. they ll give tillerson a path. what you said, i mean, he s trying to delicately, as a word diplomatically, and the president says we re going to handle this and every ally says, what does that mean, we re going to handle it? we have heard this many times in this administration, but we have heard the headlines they re contemplating tough actions against china. and we have heard every week, they re about to crack down on chinese trade practices, but to the point you were making earlier about the president trying to conduct foreign policy by tweet. the chinese newspaper editorial