A currency clause would be a form of currency manipulation. Trump accuses China of doing this, but in this case, ironically, the US would impose currency manipulation on a foreign country. They bring this up now because they realize that tariffs would backfire as inflation. So they want to force our floating currency to conform to their needs. If there are limits on our currency float through a trade agreement, they may as well ask us to forfeit our very sovereignty.

I'm getting a little peeved here. Trump is treating the best trading partner any country in the world could have like a deadbeat. A trading partner who is an honest broker, who competes on an equal footing, shares labour and environmental standards, has comparable cost structures, who is the single biggest client of US exports in the world. He's talking about us like we somehow took the US for a ride over the last 25 years. Like the US is an impoverished, crushed economy, as a result of its relationship with us.Incredible