05/11/2025
To be clear, it was Trump who blinked first, asking China to come to the table.
It was - emphatically - NOT the other way around.
Xi Jinping is immeasurably smarter than Trump, actually has a near term plan, an intermediate term plan, and a long-term plan.
In every way, Xi has much better cards than His Malignancy, and he has the patience to play each one of them at just the right moment.
Trump, on the other hand, is a consummate di**it as evidenced by his addlepated tariff war in the first place.
Trump’s psyche was waylaid by life-long “arrested development” when — during his “terrible twos” — Trump erupted in a tantrum that continues to this day.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will both meet with their Chinese trade and economic counterparts in Switzerland.