1. Donald Trump tweeted on Mar 2, 2018: "When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/969525362580484098 2. By now, however, it is obvious that "trade wars are NOT good, and NOT easy to win". Hence it won’t come as a surprise to find several Chinese nationals arrested for unsubstantiated charges in the US even before the latest arbitrary detention of the Huawei CFO. Trump seems to be using Chinese nationals as political pawns in his dangerous political game to achieve his personal political agenda. 3. As noted by kazenatsu in this political forum: "Something that everyone should take note of, if only for the concerning legal precedent it sets. If one country can take its laws and apply it to everyone else in the world, what type of place is that going to be? I haven't specifically checked but I'm pretty sure the U.S. laws she is being charged with don't specifically say they were designed to include foreign citizens in foreign countries anywhere in the world. If that's how it works, imagine how many laws in other countries you are violating right now." 4. In this thread, I coin the term "Trumpian pawn" for any innocent foreigner who has become an unsuspecting victim of state-sponsored terrorism of another country.
reedak, it seems to me you are trying to conflate two very different issues, even though [it can be speculated that] a connection may exist. If I had been trying to make a post on the same topic, I would have put more effort into trying to make a natural progression between the two topics to connect them. As it is, it seems you are just expecting your audience to make an assumed obvious automatic connection. In other words, while I am able to understand what you are stating, your post may not be the clearest to other people reading it.
Thank you for pointing out the following points: (a) [it can be speculated that] a connection may exist. (b) You are able to understand what I am stating. I always find your posts interesting and instructive. Hence I would appreciate very much if you could help me in in this thread by making a natural progression between the two topics to connect them.
