Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Madeleine Albright: Xi and Trump pushing each other's nationalism buttons" video.
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Trump tweeted on 24 January:
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”
Feb. 27, Trump press conference:
“I spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. He’s working very hard, I have to say. He’s working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, it’s actually gotten smaller.”
Trump is now up to his beady eyeballs in debt to the Bank of China...and the loan is due soon.
Whether Trump’s businesses received more loans from state-owned Chinese banks, or other investors with ties to foreign governments is unknown because Trump refuses to release his complete tax returns and other financial records.
China approved several Ivanka trademarks at the same time that Trump was agreeing to drop sanctions against Chinese telecom company ZTE. Days before Trump’s decision, China agreed to invest half a billion dollars in an Indonesia theme park resort linked to the Trump Organization through a licensing deal.
Trump is currently on the hook to China for more than 200 million dollars. In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced one of Trump’s most prized NY buildings for $1 billion. The debt included $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its the first loan of this kind in the U.S. — and the debt is due in the middle of what would be Trump’s second term.
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