2018年CRI Trump’s former campaign director: The key to dealing with Trump is to resolve disputes quickly

 

With just seven weeks until the US mid-term elections, one of President Donald Trump¹'s former campaign directors, Bryan Lanza, the managing director of communications firm Mercury, says the race is on to resolve the China-US trade spat².

"He (Trump) wants a resolution. He respects China as a competitor. He understands the US has a lot of work to do to sort of focus and be an equal competitor with China," Lanza said.

And Lanza expects to see the resolution before the mid-term election, "primarily because once presidential politics come into play, it pollutes things, it muddies the water, it makes it much harder. Up until the mid-term election, probably the best thing to do is to resolve this trade dispute."

"He comes from the business community and understands that two people can walk away with a deal happy and come back with another deal," Lanza told CGTN, stressing that "I think that is where his heart is, and he can instinctively³ find a deal both parties can walk away with and can claim victory. I think the opportunities are for both of us."

Lanza also mentioned that the key to dealing⁴ with Trump is to sew things up quickly. "During the campaign, we talked about the trade imbalance. Hopefully we can resolve that sooner. But the longer we have this conversation, the more and more issues there will be. So I tell people you need to solve your dispute as quick as possible," Lanza explained.

Some Chinese investors⁵ are concerned about doing business with the US. But he advised them to push forward with deals. "I think if you look at what the president did during the campaign, he welcomes business opportunities with the Chinese community, with Chinese investors. It's got to be a position that works for everybody, it can't be a position where people just take, and don't contribute as well."

In addition, Lanza suggested people look at Trump's policies and action rather than focus on his tweets.

"What I tell clients is, that you have to focus on policy, not rhetoric⁶. If you look at policies he's pushing forward, if you look at actions, it's more toward interlinks; sorts of relationships, especially how close our relationships are," Lanza said.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 spat   

n.口角，掌击；v.发出呼噜呼噜声

参考例句：

• Her parents always have spats.她的父母经常有些小的口角。
• There is only a spat between the brother and sister.那只是兄妹间的小吵小闹。

3 instinctively   

adv.本能地

参考例句：

• As he leaned towards her she instinctively recoiled. 他向她靠近，她本能地往后缩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He knew instinctively where he would find her. 他本能地知道在哪儿能找到她。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

5 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

6 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。