chinese tariffs on computer and electronics goods. $4 billion from mexico, $4 billion from the eu. $17 billion from canada, and the chinese are threatening somewhere in the 20 billion area. trump thinks he can win the war with the silly idea that since we import so much from china than they import from us, that he can ramp up more tariffs and therefore the end number will be larger, and that to him will be winning. but unfortunately, it doesn t quite work that way. handy is going to find this to like a game of chicken with the only truck that is moving is the one towards him. that s how this is going to work. the question has been all along that is a negotiating posture, it s a negotiating posture, it s a negotiating post khmer. right. i should say there is a school of thought that taking a tougher line with china was not a crazy idea. it s something that rational people have urged. we have to be fair. there has been a 30-year problem
in some of these meetings. he s showing up to the meetings late, he showed up to the summit late and left early. these world leaders are trying to strike a balance here, listening to president trump s tough talk, saying that they understand where he s coming from but then at the same time not willing to necessarily give in, and in fact, the french president, emmanuel macron, just held a press conference where he talked about the past two days of deliberations and he said this about a potential g7 joint statement on trade and a trade agreement and this is what macron said. he said, quote, this agreement is good news and it marks a collective effort to stabilize things. nevertheless, i do not consider that with that declaration all is obtained and it is obvious that we still have in the coming weeks and next months to continue to work. so essentially, macron here saying that they have got things into a better negotiating posture, but that there is still a lot of work to be done, and of c
you were involved in the sunny land summit between president xi and president obama. you prepared for many high stakes presidential meetings, serving under bush as well as obama. you think this is a dress rehearsal? is that right? for the bigger summit? i do think that these interactions that we re having with the north koreans, both secretary pompeo s meeting or the meeting with north korean experts and the dmz are intelligence gathering opportunities. typically before a high stakes meeting or summit, advisers to a president tell the president what to expect, but also how his counterpart is going to approach the meeting in terms of tone, in terms of negotiating posture, in terms of mannerisms. and the truth is, brianna, we had such limited interactions with the north koreans that these hours pompeo is spending with his north korean counterpart can help provide insights for the president s advisers to say this is what to expect when you sit down with kim jong-un, and that can be
time, would this be a big economic event. as it turned out economically it was insignificant. geopolitically it changed the world so the markets are probably right. so when you look at, anne, from europe the way in which the trump administration seems to be trying to maybe provoke north korea or in some way be more aggressive. are people worried or is there a sense that this is all kind of negotiating posture? i think people are worried and there is a sense of helplessness. this is a major crisis that europe has no role in. europe has a whole has not managed to forge a foreign policy. it doesn t speak with one voice so isn t able to influence the korean peninsula we re watching
a big economic event, as it turned out, economically it turned out to be insignificant, politically it changed the world. if you look at the way in which the trump administration seems to be trying to maybe provoke north korea or in some ways be more aggressive about it, are people worried or is there a sense that this is all kind of negotiating posture in. i think people are very worried and there s a sense of helplessness, there s a major crisis and it s one in which europe has no role, europe has a whole has not managed to forge a foreign policy, it does not speak with one voice so it s not able to influence is korean peninsula. here we re watching the major actors, mainly the u.s. and china, but also russia that has the potential to play an