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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Nov 10, 2020, 03:18 PM Nov 2020

France wants Biden to calm trade disputes

Source: AP

PARIS (AP) — France’s trade minister hopes that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden acts soon to calm trade tensions fueled by Donald Trump, which have led to escalating trans-Atlantic tariffs hitting billions of dollars worth of wine, planes and other goods.

In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, French Trade Minister Franck Riester accused the U.S. under Trump of threatening global commerce by blocking the appointment of the World Trade Organization’s next director, and urged Biden to break the logjam.

“I hope we are going to be able to rebuild the trans-Atlantic relationship with the Biden administration,” Riester said. He said France is “optimistic” about the Biden presidency, and welcomed Biden’s pledges to re-join the 2015 Paris climate accord and other multilateral organizations that Trump snubbed.

With the U.S. and European economies hammered by the pandemic, Riester said, “We are mobilized for dialogue at all levels ... for de-escalation, to ensure that we are no longer in this trade tension.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ap-interview-france-wants-biden-to-calm-trade-disputes/ar-BB1aSdVg?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

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France wants Biden to calm trade disputes (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
France should not meet with Pompeo C_U_L8R Nov 2020 #1
Patience, allies... Backseat Driver Nov 2020 #2

Backseat Driver

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2. Patience, allies...
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 03:47 PM
Nov 2020

in the meantime, make the "Hi-ho, the wine-o/dairy-o!-the perfumed Cheese stands alone" an ear-worm, graphic meme, whatever!

"Good "Freedom Fries" trouble, stop taking their trans-atlantic calls and zommie/zombie meetings" might also make a statement.

Stop the laissez-faire - Transition team: Ask Macron to put him and his on their no-fly list too! Alert your air-traffic controllers and harbormasters as well! Some of those international trade terrorists will perhaps soon try to make a break for it!

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