They still don't get Trump, he's full of bluster to get the other side's attention and to then get them talking, but then he climbs down from a maximist position to find an agreement that is genuinely beneficial to both (if it's not - nothing would ever gets signed). That's how he makes deals, good deals.
Meloni gets it, China still don't. Trying to antagonise Trump like you're in a fight and not actually in the opening of a negotiation process is not the way to go.
Treat Trump's bluster like it's really a polite invitation, which it is really. An invitation to do business with the most important man in New York the World.
It's taken 50 years for the US to get into this suicidal debt crisis and it's going to take a lot of digging to get them out. One-sided trade arrangements with near every country on earth is a big part of the problem caused by the US itself and 30 years of outsourcing.
