CHINA/STEVE BANNON/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist and 2016 campaign CEO, had a fiery response on Wednesday [4-4-18] to Wall Street’s dim view of Trump’s trade actions against China…Bannon, who maintains ties to the White House, said Trump’s recent moves to impose tariffs are a signal to the Chinese that ‘the game of continual delay is over’ and that they will have to address the central issue of forced technology transfers…’ Just 11 hours after the Trump administration proposed 25 percent tariffs on some 1,300 Chinese industrial technology, transport and medical products, China responded with a list of similar duties on key American imports including soybeans, planes, cars, beef and chemicals.”
-Reuters Staff, “Ex-Trump aide Bannon: ‘To hell with Wall Street’ view on trade moves,” April 4, 2018 10:57am