{"id":29833,"date":"2018-01-17T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T22:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29833"},"modified":"2018-01-17T17:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T22:25:02","slug":"trump-fires-trade-war-shots-if-there-is-a-trade-war-with-china-there-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29833","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fires Trade War Shots: &#8220;If There Is A Trade War With China, There Is&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-17\/trump-fires-trade-war-shots-if-there-trade-war-china-there\">Trump Fires Trade War Shots: &#8220;If There Is A Trade War With China, There Is&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>With Reuters having published the part of its exclusive Trump interview in which the president discusses North Korea and Russia, and in which he said that it is &#8220;very possible&#8221; the crisis with North Korea can&#8217;t be resolved in a peaceful way, moments ago Reuters published highlights from the remainder of Trump&#8217;s interview, which discloses more from Trump&#8217;s trade agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Reuters headlines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>TRUMP SAYS HE HOPES THERE WON&#8217;T BE A TRADE WAR WITH CHINA, BUT &#8220;IF THERE IS, THERE IS.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>TRUMP SAYS U.S. IS CONSIDERING &#8220;BIG DAMAGES&#8221; IN PROBE OVER ALLEGED CHINA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT<\/li>\n<li>TRUMP SAYS HE MAY TERMINATE NAFTA AGREEMENT, A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD BE UNHAPPY IF HE DID: RTRS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s peso pared some of today&#8217;s gains on the news Trump &#8220;may&#8221; terminate Nafta agreement, with the MXN falling 0.5% to 18.6833\/USD vs session high 18.58, although the bullet hardly says something we haven&#8217;t known already.<\/p>\n<p>And touching on China&#8217;s threat to sell Treasurys if there is a trade war, Trump said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>TRUMP SAYS ANY CHANGE IN CHINA&#8217;S PURCHASES OF U.S. TREASURIES WOULD NOT HURT U.S. ECONOMY, SAYS EVERYBODY WANTS TO BUY TREASURIES<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some more details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-trade-exclusive\/exclusive-trump-considers-big-fine-over-china-intellectual-property-theft-idUSKBN1F62SR\">from the full interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an interview with Reuters, Trump and his economic adviser Gary Cohn said China had forced U.S. companies to transfer their intellectual property to China as a cost of doing business there. 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