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Peter Navarro says Vietnam’s 0% tariff offer is not enough: ‘It’s the nontariff cheating that matters’ (www.cnbc.com)

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White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Monday that an offer by Vietnam to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for the administration to lift its new levies announced last week.

“Let’s take Vietnam. When they come to us and say ‘we’ll go to zero tariffs,’ that means nothing to us because it’s the nontariff cheating that matters,” Navarro said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 48 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Cheating is such a broad term, does he mean cheating like Trump did on many of his wives, cheating at golf, cheating in elections, cheating on tax returns, cheating on business appraisals, I mean, there are so many types of cheating, what is he referring to?

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Cheating like inventing an economics expert that’s just an anagram of your last time to attest that your tariff plan for America is just the greatest, number one plan of all time and we should do it

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Just magically develop bone spurs and you can get out of this, Vietnam

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Make this a high priority goal for the discovery of time travel, go back and incapacitate anyone who could prevent young Donny from getting drafted. Maybe do the same for Marion Morrison (John Wayne) too, might get a headstart on tackling toxic masculinity as a society.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

See, I've never liked that 'go back in time and tweak things to make a small change' line of thought. There's too many ways you can either make something worse happen (Trump gets drafted in Vietnam, but manages to spend the entire time as file clerk and comes back and now gets to hang the 'I'm a veteran!' flag on his hat) or it won't accomplish what you meant.

Basically, if you had a time machine and were trying to stop future events, there's really only one approach you should be considering.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Could be that someone smarter and even more corrupt ends up where he is now. Maybe he would've ended up a different person if his parents died while he was over there and he came back with less inclination to live on the jetset.

Taking him off the board doesn't do much to shake the Republican party. That kind of institutional rot needs a lot of resources and manpower to compromise.