China is desperate to resolve this before December comes along and Trump's power to shut down the WTO courts go into effect. They claim to be a 'developing country' under current WTO rules, which grants all kinds of unfair subsidies and trade bennies they don't deserve, and without the courts in their pockets they lose those bennies. Let's hope Trump doesn't let them slide and keeps up the pressure to renegotiate all of those trade deals, and also drops their 'Favored Nation' welfare scam with us as well; they don't need that scam any more either. Their plundering of Africa, while wildly popular with the Democrats, is also beginning to wear thin with the natives as well, since they are such lousy actors their racism and arrogance is impossible to hide, same as Democrats here in the U.S.
If this is true, Trump definitely has to push to end this fiasco. WTO has been a scam for the West for some time and China must not be allowed to exploit it any further.
Article on it in the WSJ a week or so ago; other countries are not happy about China's scam either. It's a myth that Trump is in this all by himself and the rest of the world hates him n stuff. That's just drivel put out by the usual fake news peddlers.
Trump has stopped the appointment of two judges already, and the terms of two more expire in December. He blocks those and the court is dead, and they can't screw over the U.S.'s and other countries' complaints. At least that's the case as of two weeks ago; I haven't read where that situation has changed yet.
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