« We seem to be reverting to letting China continue to take advantage of us. I’ m very disappointed.” « We seem to be reverting to letting China continue to take advantage of us. I’ m very disappointed.”
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer told reporters today that he’s “very disappointed” that President Donald Trump has backed out of his campaign vows to be “tough with China”—slamming the Queens-born commander-in-chief’s retreat on trade and North Korea.
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed foreign policy over the phone on Wednesday, according to CNN. But while American president only tweeted that the two world leaders had “a very good call, his Chinese counterpart indicated that they had discussed a peaceful joint effort to rein in the erratic regime in Pyongyang.
Meanwhile, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, Trump confessed he was abandoning his campaign pledge to officially label Beijing a currency manipulator for deliberately depressing the value of the yuan in order to gain a competitive advantage for its exports—a move on the president’s part that would have put pressure on China to rejigger its exchange rate.
“I’ ve said this directly to the president, ” Schumer said at an unrelated event in Staten Island, recalling the meeting between Trump and Xi at the former’s Mar-a-Lago resort last week.
