Quote:Talking about a trade deal and stealing intellectual property are two different things. Separating the two to strictly talk about renegotiating a trade deal. What is the incentive for any nation to do so? How do you encourage a country to take a worse deal for themselves than what they've had without bullying?

Now you're just not listening.


1.) enforcement for crimes against producers specifically intellectual property is part of a trade agreement.


2.) the purpose of a trade deal is to promote reciprocal trade. The idea that we should be running an 800 billion dollar trade deficit to be the nice guy of the world is none sense.


3.) other countries NEED access to our large consumer market more than we need them dumping their goods here. WE HAVE THE 16 TRILLION DOLLAR GOLDEN GOOSE! That's natural leverage in trade negotiations. Using that isn't bullying its having the common sense not to be bullied.

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