Greer Leonard
APUSH 8th Period
"Trump's Empty Trade Threats Weaken U.S. Hand Over North Korea"
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/04/news/economy/trump-north-korea-china-trade-threat/index.html

Summary: President Trump has posted a threat that the US will end all trade relations to all countries that have trade relations with North Korea due to the increasing missile threats. However, China is one of the largest (if not the largest) trade partners with both the US and North Korea. This dispute has many congressmen quarreling over the President's decisions to post a threat to the internet as deep-rooted as this one.

Analysis: This CNN article was written by Tim Schwarz in order to give information about the dispute between China's trading relations between two enemies. Within the article specific opinions are given with mostly negative intentions to the President's actions. Chinese political powers were offended by his sudden threat to cut off from their trade alliance. Since trade with China is so important to US economy, many people were confused as to why the President would even consider ending relations with them in the first place. Trade is important to keep economies afloat and to fuel the supply and demands of the people. Severing all ties from mutual trading partners of North Korea would be disastrous, and it seems like most people share the same idea. I believe we should continue trading with China just because their exports impact our society greatly. Even though they are partnered with our enemy doesn't mean that we completely avert our exports away from them. China is our biggest trading partner and losing them would result in disaster.