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riversedge

(70,197 posts)
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 10:19 AM Oct 2017

Tillerson raps China as 'predatory' rule breaker

Source: CNN






Updated 2:34 AM ET, Thu October 19, 2017

Story highlights

Tillerson is attempting to lead a concerted diplomatic push to have Beijing apply greater pressure on North Korea
President Donald Trump makes his first official trip to China in just three weeks

Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Rex Tillerson rebuked China on Wednesday for subverting the global order, undermining the sovereignty of its neighbors and for being an irresponsible international actor prone to predatory economic policies.

"China, while rising alongside India, has done so less responsibly, at times undermining the international rules-based order," the top US diplomat said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies about US-India ties.

"China's provocative actions in the South China Sea directly challenge the international law and norms that the United States and India both stand for," Tillerson continued. While the US wants a constructive relationship with China, he said, "we will not shrink from China's challenges to the rules-based order, and where China subverts the sovereignty of neighboring countries and disadvantages the US and our friends."

Tillerson made the remarks at a time he is attempting to lead a concerted diplomatic push to have Beijing apply greater pressure on North Korea, which defiantly continues its pursuit of nuclear weapons and the means to target them at US territory. ......................

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/18/politics/tillerson-china-rebuke-speech/index.html?CNNPolitics=Tw



No more beautiful chocolate cake for China's president.





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Poor old corporate USA. yallerdawg Oct 2017 #1

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
1. Poor old corporate USA.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 10:39 AM
Oct 2017

Being abused by the world.

Tillerson (former head of philanthropic organization ExxonMobil) is now doing his moronic master's bidding.

Apparently, they anticipate only a temporary bump in the road on making that ginormous deal with Russia and those oil reserves still under sanction. (Come on, Mueller.)

Trump Administration Motto - "You can never be too rich!"

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