Trigger Point
“He had just got off an early morning call with the director-general of the WTO, who had pressed him to revoke the measures he had announced, to which the Chinese measures were a response. The director-general assured him that the Chinese would revoke their actions if the US acted first. But he didn’t have answers to the questions Knowles asked him directly. As president, what was he supposed to do as the underpinnings of the American economy were torn out from under it? How else was he supposed... to stabilize a market that was sliding into quicksand? The director-general assured him that he was certain the Chinese government had intended no such thing. Tom Knowles assured him the Chinese government had had plenty of opportunity to say so, both in private and public.The other members of the National Security Council were waiting.‘I’m sorry to be getting you in here on Christmas Eve,’ he said as he sat down. ‘Wasn’t exactly what I would have planned.’There were a few rueful smiles in response.‘Okay,’ he said.MoreLess
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