china on trade while they're helping me on north korea. now, we can have a debate later on about how much they're really helping on north korea but he has clearly faced the issue that every president before him has faced which is, how do you get the chinese to cooperate on a political goal while you're beating them up on an economic goal. i read his comments today as suggesting that he was going to step back a bit on the trade issues and he did that by saying the chinese are simply acting in their own self-interest. who doesn't act if their own self-interest in trade? we do, they do, everyone else does. blaming this on president obama i thought was particularly strange because if you go back to the history of this, if there is a moment that most of the president trump's allies sort of put on this it was the moment china came into the world trade organization at the end of the