THE LATEST | CANADABloomberg: I’m sure you can see the contrast between when President Trump first arrived. We end up with a meeting, after which he talks about “enormous respect” between the two countries, and how honored he is that President Xi has authorized the purchase of soybeans and other goods. So there is a softening.
No, there’s no softening.
How is that not a softening?
You don’t understand how Trump diplomacy works. The great thing that people, particularly on the left, don’t understand is that it’s functional for President Trump to have open lines with Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Erdogan in Turkey — all of the people that the world regards as vicious dictators — which they are. But they are part of the world stage, where you have to negotiate….