Republican incompetence hurting US compe iveness

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"There is no strategy and professionals are not involved," James McGregor, president of the greater China region for the consulting firm APCO,

"The people from [the U.S. Trade Representative's office] and Commerce and State are sidelined."

McGregor says instead of representatives from the U.S. Trade Representative and other government staff who typically deal with China, President Trump has political appointees with little to no trade experience engaging with the Chinese. "It's really been a farce," says McGregor. "And if it continues like this, it's really going to hurt American business. The Chinese are pros. They know what they're doing. Anybody sitting on the other side of the table as Chinese negotiator has been doing that subject for 20 years."



McGregor says Chinese negotiators have called friends of his in Beijing to see what the Chinese side could give to Trump during his Beijing visit to please his base. He calls these "Twitterable deliverables," and he puts the lifting of the Chinese ban on U.S. beef in this category: an easily promotable gift that, because it has come so late, may not have a meaningful impact on the U.S. economy.

https://www.npr.org/sections/paralle...nda-in-Beijing


This is being repeated all across the Federal government. Loyalty to the president is the ONLY qualification considered. Competent people almost universally do not want to work for Trump, and even when they do, they get passed over for nominations.

Welcome to the Banana Republic of Trump.

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Trash helping make America weaker, and Russia relatively stronger, as dictated to him by Pootin

Trump is making US weaker, says top diplomat

President Donald Trump promised to make the U.S. stronger on the world stage, but under his administration top diplomats are leaving at a “dizzying speed” and making America vulnerable,

“Were the U.S. military to face such a decapitation of its leadership ranks, I would expect a public outcry,”

The Department of State has lost 60 percent of its career ambassadors since January when Trump was inaugurated, Stephenson points out.

“These numbers are hard to square with the stated agenda of making State and the Foreign Service stronger,”

she said, detailing just how many people have left the foreign service.

“The rapid loss of so many senior officers has a serious, immediate, and tangible effect on the capacity of the United States to shape world events.”

That means countries like China, Russia, and others will fill the vacuum,

“The one that matters is me,” Trump said.

“I'm the only one that matters because when it comes to it,

that's what the policy is going to be. You've seen that, you've seen it strongly.”

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has even struggled against the White House to fill senior posts under him.

He is working to implement Trump’s plan to

reorganize the State Department and

slash $10.1 billion from its budget, a move that could

put 2,300 U.S. diplomats and civil servants out of work.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/tru...e+Raw+Story%29

aka, Bannon's "destruction of govt"