You're absolutely right. International trade is a far cry from ripping off people in New York. Many countries think several decades into the future if not further when it comes to projects and growth. It's something people in the US haven't done thus far only thinking in the short term.

While I believe normalized relations with China is beneficial. I believe our trade policies with them are costing us many US manufacturing jobs. So there needs to be a change in the dynamic in which we work with China. Trump is looking to change that dynamic but with his history of outsourcing and his incompetence we can't trust him for that.

Update: Trump announced a lot of business agreements. However several of those agreements were already in place befor ehe and his people visited China. Virtually all of the future agteements are "non-binding". Meaning they are unlikely to actually ever happen.

When Trump makes announcements. I think of it as putting extravagant window dressign on a store that remains empty. A lot of times if you try to walk into the store (look into the details behind an announcement) you find the store to be just a facade, like in a movie set with nothign at all behind it.

He's apparently been bankrupt more than once, so he can't be all that good a businessman.

"Trump is an idiot". I'm surprised you had to qualify that statement

Did he not offer tpp like deals after voicing pull out?