Quote of the day ... "Relations with China have taken a BIG leap forward!"

From The Wall Street Journal (Dec 3)

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“My meeting in Argentina with President Xi of China was an extraordinary one,” the president tweeted. “Relations with China have taken a BIG leap forward! Very good things will happen. We are dealing from great strength, but China likewise has much to gain if and when a deal is completed. Level the field!”

Mr. Trump’s remark appeared to echo the slogan of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward economic program of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a campaign to collectivize agriculture and industrial production and catch up with the West. It resulted in widespread famine and the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese.

--From The Wall Street Journal,  Dec 3