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Photo by Kelsey Kremer “I used to tell Donald Political analyst Xu Qinduo with China
Trump, don’t say Radio International, in a TV interview,
An air purifier churns away in every anything bad about criticized the escalating rhetoric out
corner of the ambassador’s Beijing of Washington and Trump’s promise
living room to combat the capital China. to “totally destroy” North Korea if
city’s notorious smog. But clearing provoked: “This kind of talk is more like
the air of the decades-old standoff North Korean style.”
with North Korea has gotten only
tougher since Trump took office. Even as governor, Branstad pushed
to tame candidate Trump's campaign
The living room is the same space rhetoric on China as a top killer of
where Branstad’s immediate boss, American jobs and manufacturing.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, spoke in
late September of diplomatic channels “I used to tell Donald Trump,”
still open for negotiating with Kim Jong Branstad said to a roomful of fellow
Un’s regime. Iowans in Beijing, “don’t say anything
bad about China.”
That famously inspired a flurry
of Trump tweets that seemingly As ambassador, Branstad cites recent
undermined the authority of his diplomatic progress with coaxing
secretary of state. China to help apply more pressure to
North Korea.
The president tweeted that the former
ExxonMobil chief was “wasting his time “The Chinese have come a long way
trying to negotiate with Little Rocket in just the last several months since
Man.” I've been here in supporting stronger
resolutions,” he said.
There’s no shortage of state-
sponsored commentary in China to the Branstad on Aug. 17 accompanied
contrary, emphasizing a cool globalist Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., chairman of
tone of restraint.
14 AmCham South China
Photo by Kelsey Kremer “I used to tell Donald Political analyst Xu Qinduo with China
Trump, don’t say Radio International, in a TV interview,
An air purifier churns away in every anything bad about criticized the escalating rhetoric out
corner of the ambassador’s Beijing of Washington and Trump’s promise
living room to combat the capital China. to “totally destroy” North Korea if
city’s notorious smog. But clearing provoked: “This kind of talk is more like
the air of the decades-old standoff North Korean style.”
with North Korea has gotten only
tougher since Trump took office. Even as governor, Branstad pushed
to tame candidate Trump's campaign
The living room is the same space rhetoric on China as a top killer of
where Branstad’s immediate boss, American jobs and manufacturing.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, spoke in
late September of diplomatic channels “I used to tell Donald Trump,”
still open for negotiating with Kim Jong Branstad said to a roomful of fellow
Un’s regime. Iowans in Beijing, “don’t say anything
bad about China.”
That famously inspired a flurry
of Trump tweets that seemingly As ambassador, Branstad cites recent
undermined the authority of his diplomatic progress with coaxing
secretary of state. China to help apply more pressure to
North Korea.
The president tweeted that the former
ExxonMobil chief was “wasting his time “The Chinese have come a long way
trying to negotiate with Little Rocket in just the last several months since
Man.” I've been here in supporting stronger
resolutions,” he said.
There’s no shortage of state-
sponsored commentary in China to the Branstad on Aug. 17 accompanied
contrary, emphasizing a cool globalist Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., chairman of
tone of restraint.
14 AmCham South China
