week or two. >> and he's done that a number of times even back in december when donald trump and xi jingping met in buenos aires and had a 30-day cease fire in imposing tariffs and that delayed the american escalation of tariffs. we then delayed them again past march 1. china is very good at playing for time in diplomatic negotiations. they're in general i'd say better at it than we are. he has done it before. he can do it again. and they can also see with the renegotiation of nafta and other negotiations of that this administration has entered into we tend to take a maximalist position with a lot of bluster and then at the end of the day, we settle for minor improvements. we threaten to knock the whole chess board off the table, in the ennui push a pawn one space forward, and say that it is the greatest deal ever. so of course, china is trying to calculate, what's the very least we can offer to get the trump administration to call it a day? >> from tennessee, in knoxville, michael, go ahead, you're on with our guest. >> caller: hi, i'm curious how we're going to close trade deficits in asia

public process of going to the national people's congress would have looked like a climb—down for xi jingping a highly nationalist leader, who promises to make his country great again, to be seen to allow the united states to dictate chinese law, i think he thought politically was not a great look. remember it came just after his belt and road summit, the wheels have been wobbling a bit on belt and road. you know, he is not on entirely confident ground and brava figura is a big part of his domestic position, and this i don't think he could've taken. looking at the view from washington, i mean, that history haiku from donald trump, "a little squabble, we always win" — is that bravado on his part, or is that resolve and resilience? this is one issue where actually you have a fair amount unanimity across the united states, the republicans and democrats alike think it is time to rein in china, to call china on it, particularly on the issue of technology theft. and so it is not one of those republican—democratic polarisations. in fact, a while ago it was nancy pelosi who said trump was not going f

xi jingping faces a decision of how hard he wants to go against this american president. >> there was supposed to be a meeting and the chinese backed off after they saw the way the president behaved at the summit. that was a signal that this president could be expected to walk away from an agreement and they did not want the chinese president to come all the way to fl n aorida a be humiliated. >> which he would have been had he come here and trump walked away. we seeing classic trump brinksmanship. he'll create a lot of drama and then back down or take the less dangerous path when the deadline hits. >> you're seeing a president beleaguered on a lot of fronts. the iran policy, dangerous escalation. china trade is in what he thinks is his wheel house now. he doesn't seem to understand what a trade deficit is and what with trade war can mean fwlabec there are no winners in a trade war. >> when you look at what he has control over, domestic policy isn't going anywhere. >> the new nafta. >> china is one area he can try to accomplish something. when you look at what are the deals he's gotte

two years with one-on-one diplomacy, with the north korean dictator, with the chinese leader xi jingping, those diplomatic initiatives have hit the rocks with a trade war with china, without a deal with north korea. meanwhile the u.s.' closest ally in asia has proven steadfast. so shinzo abe has proved that. when it comes to the trade disputes that the u.s. has with japan, real criticism that president trump has been voicing ever since he was a private citizen and businessman and tabloid star in the 1980s, shinzo abe has perhaps dulled some of that criticism, managed to avoid a new round of threatened automobile tariffs slapped against japan and managed to perhaps postpone trade negotiations that could force some concessions on the japanese economy at least for a few months and at a time when the japanese government is warning that its own economic growth is worsening. rosema rosemary? >> all right, many thank tuesday our ivan watson bringing us that live report from tokyo where it's just after 3:00 in the afternoon. let's bring in scott via skype for his perspective. he is a professor o

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relationships rather than professional negotiators including his connection to chinese president xi jingpingtiful letter. i'll probably speak to him by phone. >> reporter: china's vice p premier said they would need to work it out themselves. >> i don't think we'll have seen the personalization of foreign policy at this level to the degree we see it under trump. >> reporter: with china, north korea, russia, trump has counted on his personal one-on-one relationships with men who have stood as america's add ver sver to score major deals. the reaction mixed. >> he was able to establish a good relationship be kim jong-un. it serves their interest to have a relationship. >> reporter: trump's style have created personal dynamics we have never seen in public like how he spoke with the violent north korean dictator. >> then we fell in love. really. he wrote me beautiful letters. >> reporter: he's displayed those personal letters from kim, including one delivered in a comically oversized envelopes. >> he sends him picture, letter, happy birthday to kim jong-un's grandfather on april 15th. this has be

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and use tariffs to force china to change and china is resisting that and xi jingping is leader to a countryeen backing down to a u.s. president and playing by a u.s. president's rule he'll be seen as paying the price for that at home. he is to resist this kind of pressure coming from trump. >> you write about this in your book. how the trade war is apart of something much bigger. >> it is one front in a multifront war and i think americans are away of a couple of fronts. but china deployed satellites in space. a kidnapper satellite that can pluck u.s. satellites out of orbit. china has up and created sovereign territory in the middle of the south china sea. man made islands there in the middle of territory claimed by many countries including u.s. allies. the u.s. complained about it but china has done it. it succeeded and china is stealing u.s. secrets every day. private sector and government sector secrets every day with great success. it's part of a strategy. they refer to it as winning without fighting. they want to surpass the u.s. they want to take what they see as their rightful posit

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jingping is promising retaliation. to judgewe are going who is winning between the u.s., we might as well start with trumps metric. he says there is one that shows if the u.s. is winning or losing. he tweets and talked about it a lot. that's the trade deficit. by a.s. is still behind particular margin but it has definitely narrowed. there is debate about if this is a useful metric. turn to inflation. the trade war driven inflation showing their prices increased about 1.6% since last july compared to other categories and blue. blue.er categories in it doesn't have an effect on this picture because it impacts more industrial and not end-use products. china and the u.s., consumer confidence and retail sales did something similar. consumer confidence rebounded. when you look at retail sales, you can see that they both weekend -- weakened. this is a draw. the yuan slumped in the last year versus the dollar. it gives them a cushion against tariffs. on -- a weaker yuan connotationsbad for the chinese economy. it is a draw, 3-3. we are still waiting to see who comes out on top o