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Originally Posted by Our House
It's mild compared to the things Trump has said and done to China that they don't want.
Particularly, blaming them constantly for not putting pressure on North Korea after using up Xi's favors on Trump family trademarks and (illegal?) Kushner Visa sales.
Heard Fareed Zakaria talking about this on a podcast on Saturday. He said if you follow the sequence of events closely it started with Trump beginning his Presidency by talking to Taiwan before China. That resulted in the Chinese not even taking or returning any calls at all from the US government. Like none. So next Tillerson or someone was able to convince Trump to re-iterate the USA's 'one China' policy, to which the Chinese responded by approving a bunch of Chinese trademarks that the Trump organization had requested. Then during the meeting at Mar-a-lago they enacted more concessions by approving a bunch of trademarks for Ivanka Trump's products and services, and so on.
So Fareed says he was talking about that with a friend in China who told him that this is something the Chinese government is quite comfortable with and has been doing for a while with foreign leaders. Except as he pointed out, up until Trump the ones getting that sort of treatment have all been African dictators.