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>> India of course caved and so on,

India and US still have not signed any trade deal. Not sure what's the basis of your comment.

India and China have their own trade books.

No one other than close US allies caved.

And even then, they all realize Trump is a mad man and cannot be relied upon.

I mean look at the Japanese deals, it has some of the most wishy-washy loose language I have seen in a serious political document for a very long time.

We indent to do this, they propose that, there is aspirations of this. They caved but only in the most symbolic fashion possible. I see a lot of diplomacy at hand.

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." - Theodore Roosevelt,

And all that works on Trump because he's fundamentally an unsophisticated political actor. Once you get past the shock of the aggressive strategies he uses, he can be outmaneuvered by experienced politicians who trust their institutional experts.

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