Mexico Prez OUTMANEUVERS Trump with MAJOR MEETING
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How is Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum outmaneuvering Donald Trump?
I want to share with you how Mexico's president Claudia Scheinbaum continues to outmaneuver Donald Trump and the incoming Trump administration. I want to share with you. the subtleties of international diplomacy. And I want to show you when Donald Trump's out there making social media posts where he's like mocking the concept of the uh annexation of Canada, when Donald Trump's out there making social media posts with himself and and Elvis, I want to compare that to the steps that our trading adversaries like China are taking to actually court Current allies of the United States, like Mexico and others, and bring them more in the orbit and ambit of China. So let's tie this all together, the subtleties here, right?
So what's been going on behind the scenes since the election? Well, um, there was a G20 conference, a G20 summit. It was in Brazil. Uh President Xi Jinping of China was there. Um and in the lead up to the G twenty, Xi J Ping requested a meeting with Claudia Scheinbaum, Mexico's new president. And at first it was reported that she was not going to be doing this meeting and that she would be um you know turning that down. She would see him there, of course, but she would not be meeting with Xi Jipping. Ultimately, she met with Xi Jinping as a result, in my view, of the fact that Donald Trump was elected and to send a message that China is the number two trading partner with Mexico. And if America screws over its ally Mexico, Mexico is going to turn more heavily to China.
You see, uh China has been courting Mexico to join the BRICS bloc, B-R-I-C-S. It's an acronym for Brazil, Russia. India, China, and South Africa, and there's a bunch of other countries as well. It's an alliance that's growing as well. America, under President Biden, had applied the appropriate pressure on Mexico, but through lots of carrots and the types of normal relations you'd have with your ally to try to make sure that Mexico would not join the BRICS. Block. And so we saw Mexico's previous uh president, uh Obrador, Manuel Lopez Obrador, back, for example, on August 9, 2023. He said that basically Putin and G can forget putting Mexico in their multipolar club. And he said that Mexico would never be joining BRICS.
And he was very kind of clear and strongly and Strong about how he worded it. Um, he said uh he denied back in August 2023 that Mexico had any interest in joining BRICS quote: This is the former president of Mexico. We are not going to participate in this block and this association. Of course, we welcome the fact that other countries are doing so. However, for economic neighborhood and geopolitical reasons, we will continue to. To strengthen the North American alliance and all of America. He said, notice what he said, neighborhood. In other words, because we're allies with America, America doesn't want us to do that, and we have a good relationship with America, our ally, right? So that was the status.
Before then you have a new president coming into Mexico. Same party, by the way. Claudia Scheinbaum's a in many ways a protege of Obrador, but you know, she's certainly her her own person, a powerful, powerful person there in Mexico, a longtime activist. Then there's the election of Trump. And so what does Trump do right away? First thing he does, threaten Mexico and Canada with a blanket. 25% tariff, which you um know about, we've reported before. And then he also threatens BRICS countries with a 100% tariff, just saying, tariff this, tariff that, we're tariffing everything right there over and over again. So, with all of that coming out, and you know, even though Donald Trump made the those tariff threats um November 25th, right around that time period, I think Claudia shine.
Saw who Donald Trump's selections were going to be. She knew that was coming. We previously reported how, as soon as Donald Trump made those statements, remember the very strong response she made. She threatened retaliatory tariffs on the United States. She told the United States of America: perhaps if you spent less money on war and building weapons of war and more on dealing with competition.
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