The agreement prohibits coercing or pressuring foreign companies to pass on their technology as a precondition for market access, administrative authorizations or obtaining benefits. “But I`m also realistic enough to know until these beans are actually delivered to customers, that we can`t count our chickens before they hatch.” As we move into the second phase, I look forward to continuing to build a future of harmony, prosperity, and truly trade – trade and – far beyond U.S.-China trade. This is something that, far beyond this agreement, will lead to an even stronger world peace. “This deal will work if China wants it to work,” U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said. “They expect it to be applied to the letter.” So Phase 1, which was really amazing – you know, we had almost finished the whole deal, but it`s better. This is a more detailed agreement on this aspect of the agreement. It was so important before. And it`s a much more targeted, much more powerful market, for everything we do, which is a very big part of the deal. Thus, China has made substantial and enforceable commitments to protect U.S. ideas, trade secrets, patents, and trademarks. This wasn`t the case for most people – they didn`t know we were sewing anything out of it.
We covered a lot of them. This is phase 1. But they do a lot more things than anyone would have thought possible in Phase 1. “This should seriously scare our other trading partners, because one way [for China] to achieve these goals is simply to stop shopping from other countries and relocate purchases to the United States,” she said. It wasn`t until after checking the name, which appeared to be about half the public, condemning the impeachment proceedings as a “scam,” joking about former FBI Director James Comey, and hovering the possibility of a fireworks display on Mount Rushmore, that he reached the content of the long-awaited deal. . . .