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China's official Xinhua News agency agreed with its counterpart in describing a friendly

and constructive atmosphere.

But in terms of what was actually talked about and agreed upon, it depicts a different picture.

According to Beijing, the U.S. and China agreed to stop adding new tariffs, without mentioning

it's only a temporary cease fire.

The report said the next step is to work to eliminate all tariffs.

There is no mention of the 90 day negotiation period and what happens if the two parties

don't reach an agreement within three months.

Xinhua also said China will further open its market and increase imports based on the needs

of China's reforms and the Chinese market.

The report didn't mention the immediate purchase of large amounts of U.S. agricultural

goods.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's press briefing was strictly in line with the Xinhua

News agency's report.

The two leaders have reached an agreement to stop raising new tariffs on each other.

China expresses its willingness to expand imports according to the needs of its domestic

market and people, including the purchase of marketable goods from the United States,

so as to gradually alleviate the trade imbalance.

In a response to mounting criticism from Chinese citizens that the media concealed important

details of the Trump-Xi meeting, chief editor Hu Xijin of China's Global Times defended

the Chinese government.

He said it is normal for diplomats to highlight information that is beneficial to their country.

He went on to say his media did not hide such information.

The Global Times also criticized the Trump administration for highlighting Beijing's

agreement to purchase $1.2 trillion dollars of American goods while failing to mention

where the U.S. made concessions.

It listed examples, like the U.S. hasn't mentioned Made in China 2025 for a while.

It also seemed to stop attacks on China's state-owned enterprises and related industrial

policies.

The Global Times is in an awkward position.

It still has to attack America even if it wants to somewhat differ from Xinhua.

It is likely this slight difference was also ordered by the regime.

The real question is why did the Chinese Communist Party feel the need to hide the details of

this meeting at all?

Here is my discussion with Chinese political strategist Pokong Chen.

In your opinion, why did the Chinese communist regime hide part of the Trump-Xi meeting from

its people?

The regime orchestrated this, as I had anticipated.

Simply because this is almost the last chance for it to warm up China-U.S. relations and

end confrontation between them.

This is also the last reprieve President Trump and the U.S. have granted him after Xi's

repeated requests.

So, evidently, it was China that made substantial concessions to the U.S.

You may call it caving in, admitting defeat, or a signal of sincerity.

It was flagged as "surrender," in accounts of Russian and Indian media.

That's why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who had been so assertive and high-profile,

was reluctant to publicize the truth.

We remember Xi's previous public remarks, claiming to "fight to the end," "teeth

for teeth," and "never back down a single step."

He even swore to prevent Trump from taking advantage of China like cutting off mutton

from a grown sheep.

So defiantly, so absolutely.

Despite such statements Xi's huge concessions made him unable to face the Chinese people,

which may provoke civilian criticism, political unrest or a power crisis.

As a result Xi Jinping and the Chinese communist regime concealed details

of

the talk.

For more infomation >> Pokong Chen: Xi Couldn't Face Chinese People After Concessions to US - Duration: 6:26.

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Huawei Arrest and Future of US-China Relations - Duration: 5:13.

On December 1st, the same day President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed

to a trade war truce, Canada arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei

Technologies, Meng Wanzhou.

Meng is the deputy chair of Huawei's board and the daughter of the company's founder,

Ren Zhengfei.

The arrest warrant was issued by the United States a week earlier.

A Canadian justice then issued a warrant on November 30th.

Meng allegedly committed fraud in 2013 by lying to U.S. financial institutions about

Huawei's connection with Hong Kong company SkyCom, which reportedly sold U.S. goods to

Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.

Huawei is the world's largest maker of telecommunications network equipment.

In 2004, CISCO sued Huawei for using stolen Cisco technology to develop a lineup of routers

and switches sold in competition to the American company.

Cisco later dropped the lawsuit in exchange for a promise from its rival to modify its

product lineup.

On December 4th, 38 Chinese government branches published a united memo laying out an array

of punishments over intellectual property theft.

These measures include establishing a social credit system to target people and entities

who commit severe intellectual property rights violations.

The social credit score could restrict companies' access to borrowing and state-funded support.

On the same day, President Trump tweeted, quote, "Very strong signals being sent by

China once they returned home from their long trip, including stops, from Argentina.

Not to sound naive or anything, but I believe President Xi meant every word of what he said

at our long and hopefully historic meeting.

ALL subjects discussed!"

What does all this say about the U.S.-China trade war and President Trump's attitude

toward China now?

Let's hear form Greg Autry and Pokong Chen again.

On December 1st, Meng Wanzhou, Huawei C.F.O. and daughter of the founder of the company,

was arrested in Canada for extradition to the U.S.

What do you make of her arrest?

Do you think it is related to the U.S.-China trade war?

Absolutely.

It, to some extent, couldn't not be because the focus on the penalties that the U.S. is

putting on China are not necessarily over the specific products on the list, but over

the intellectual property theft and behavior that requires the transfer of intellectual

property.

And Huawei is like the poster child for stealing U.S. intellectual property and as a tool for

the Chinese party to insert network infrastructure and communications infrastructure into Western

countries that it can further use to inflict cyber espionage and industrial espionage on

those countries.

So it's the perfect message to send.

I don't know whether the arrest was intentionally related to that, but Huawei has been a company

that I identified back in 2013 when I testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on

China cyber espionage as the primary target to look at.

So I'm not surprised by that.

So you think this is not a coincidence?

It says something about trump's attitude towards China?

I think it's possible.

And, again, I think you might see that they take action on visas for corporate executives

or maybe even for students or, who knows, because they've got a lot of other tools

in their pocket and they don't intend to let a foreign power continue to steal U.S.

assets.

And I think they're going to be pretty strong about that.

And tariffs are not the only way to do it.

So if they put the tariffs on hold, like I said, they could look at those reciprocal

rules, they could look at all these other issues.

Can America finally get what it demands from China this time?

Let's hear from Pokong Chen.

Will Xi Jinping honor his promises?

Or will the U.S. meet its goals within 90 days?

For Xi and China they face two challenges: one, are they willing to keep their promises?

And two, are they capable of performing their commitments?

For the first, Xi is reluctant to do that.

He tends to cope with Americans by delaying, stealing and tricking.

Lip service is his top option.

As to his ability, that's another question.

Currently, there's little chance for the Chinese regime to try to cheat the Trump administration

again.

The presence of all American hawks declares their assertiveness.

Further, the lead negotiator was Robert Lighthizer, also a hawk, who served as deputy U.S. trade

representative in negotiating with the Japanese 30 years ago, and who is a U.S. Trade Representative

and a barrister.

According to Navarro, Lighthizer will conduct reciprocal negotiations with China under "International

Law" and other laws, chapter by chapter, article by article, until structural reforms.

The deadline given by Trump is only 90 days.

So if no deal is reached then, the trade war will go on and get escalated.

For the CCP, therefore, it certainly wants to break its promises, to escape, and to delay.

But I guess it'll have great difficulty in doing so.

There's little room for Xi.

Considering his breaking promises twice, a third time would bring China-U.S. relations

to the brink of complete confrontation.

It's not just an issue of new Cold War.

An all-out conflict in every fronts, I'm afraid.

The CCP would be most likely to repeat the collapse of the former Nazi Germany, militaristic

Japan and the former Soviet Union.

So right now, the CCP finds itself at a critical crossroad, having to make a hard choice to

where to go.

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