China position weak but defiant--looking for REE embargoLOL, China playing the "humiliation" car, they complain the "can't get no respect" as Rodney Dangerfield might claim. Pity China, perhaps the West owes them reparations! Seems they don't know or at least won't face up to the fact that respect is earned. And who can respect a regime that denies basic human rights, is building a nation-wide surveillance system to spy on every citizen, seeks to destroy a religion, puts people in internment camps and brainwashes and even tortures them, kills prisoners to sell their organs on demand (yes, just documented again), disappears people, has a judicial system that has a 99.9% conviction rate, violates innumerable WTO rules it has agreed to uphold and aggressively takes over a territory that increases the country's area by a million square miles (South China Sea) the largest territorial grab since Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in WWII. No, such a rogue and uncivilized China deserves no respect and its use of the "lack of respect" argument in the Trade War is laughable!
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/25/735274808/analysis-the-politics-of-national-humiliation-in-the-trump-xi-meeting