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Now we’re seeing, sort of, more of a tit-for-tat approach. – Daleep Singh	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This action will not stop the ongoing tit-for-tat between China and the United States, and may escalate it. China should stop trying to control and intimidate foreign news bureaus and allow them to hire Chinese staff freely and directly. – Steven Butler	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Most wars, you get this tit-for-tat that goes in this spiral, and then suddenly each side has its back up and you can't back down, and you inadvertently fall into war, i think we are at very high risk of doing right now. So, it's not just about intent. It's our actions mean something beyond our control. – Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We do not love tariffs, in fact we would prefer not to use them, but after years of discussions and no action, tariffs are finally forcing China to pay attention to our concerns, we could have had a deal two-and-a-half years ago without going through the whole tit-for-tat on tariffs that we have. – Wilbur Ross	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's going to be no tit-for-tat retaliation, under the rules of the WTO, which we're complying with here, we get to do this and they should not do anything back. – Peter Navarro	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is a knee-jerk reaction given that Bolton has been so adversarial with Iran, with his removal, there is an expectation there won't be as much vehemence in the tit-for-tat with Iran. – Matt Smith	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Its a really tough environment for lawmaking, first, the parties are surely more ideologically polarized from each other than they were decades ago. Second, theres more sheer partisanship in town than before -- tit for tat, your team is for it, so my team is against it. Third, close electoral competition narrows the window for dealmaking -- each election offers each party a chance to hold or gain control. ... [ And, ] because the president is so unpopular nationally and with independents, theres limited pressure on Democrats to resolve problems. – Sarah Binder	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The tit-for-tat trade war now has the oil market officially caught in the crossfire, this time with China striking the heart of Trump's traditional base of support of U.S. oil producers, with China being the world's foremost crude import growth region, U.S. producers need China, not the other way around. – Michael Tran	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Despite both countries' desire to avoid a major escalation, there remains a risk of tit-for-tat retaliatory action. – Akhil Bery	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's not clear where the end-point is for these tit-for-tat tariffs - China will feel it has to make some sort of response. – Paul Fage	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There certainly is going to be pronounced risks mainly because we've now moved on to the tit-for-tat-for-tit phase of it, this is going to drag on until they can all come to the table and agree to even the playing field. But the unpredictability of the situation continues to rattle the markets. – Vishnu Varathan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Chinese have to do the tit-for-tat, they have to retaliate. – John Driscoll	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
These tit-for-tat trade tariffs will ultimately raise prices for consumers and will likely dampen demand for products. – Jack Ablin	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
With Trump's politics, we're in a world of re-aligning alliances. China will not just swallow U.S. tariffs, this is tit-for-tat petroleum diplomacy. – John Driscoll	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If things got a little bit tit-for-tat, then there are obviously risks at a minimum that we need to be attentive to. – Martin Anstice	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Hence, this looks like a tit-for-tat response from the steel mills who were feeling international pressure from steel anti-dumping investigations and tariffs. – Carsten Menke	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This is not a tit-for-tat at all, i see that Russia is presenting a very different face to us on security in the Arctic, which is creating concerns, which is requiring NATO and individual countries to reassess its own military means. – Heather Conley	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It’s never a good idea to pick a fight with the media, by constantly doing this tit for tat, they’re keeping it alive in the news cycle. – Damaging Press Constantino counters	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We don't think the answer to the crisis in Ukraine is simply to inject more weapons and get into that type of tit-for-tat with Russia. – Ben Rhodes	Found on CNN 9 years ago

Now we’re seeing, sort of, more of a tit-for-tat approach.

– Daleep Singh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This action will not stop the ongoing tit-for-tat between China and the United States, and may escalate it. China should stop trying to control and intimidate foreign news bureaus and allow them to hire Chinese staff freely and directly.

– Steven Butler

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Most wars, you get this tit-for-tat that goes in this spiral, and then suddenly each side has its back up and you can't back down, and you inadvertently fall into war, i think we are at very high risk of doing right now. So, it's not just about intent. It's our actions mean something beyond our control.

– Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We do not love tariffs, in fact we would prefer not to use them, but after years of discussions and no action, tariffs are finally forcing China to pay attention to our concerns, we could have had a deal two-and-a-half years ago without going through the whole tit-for-tat on tariffs that we have.

– Wilbur Ross

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's going to be no tit-for-tat retaliation, under the rules of the WTO, which we're complying with here, we get to do this and they should not do anything back.

– Peter Navarro

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is a knee-jerk reaction given that Bolton has been so adversarial with Iran, with his removal, there is an expectation there won't be as much vehemence in the tit-for-tat with Iran.

– Matt Smith

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Its a really tough environment for lawmaking, first, the parties are surely more ideologically polarized from each other than they were decades ago. Second, theres more sheer partisanship in town than before -- tit for tat, your team is for it, so my team is against it. Third, close electoral competition narrows the window for dealmaking -- each election offers each party a chance to hold or gain control. ... [ And, ] because the president is so unpopular nationally and with independents, theres limited pressure on Democrats to resolve problems.

– Sarah Binder

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The tit-for-tat trade war now has the oil market officially caught in the crossfire, this time with China striking the heart of Trump's traditional base of support of U.S. oil producers, with China being the world's foremost crude import growth region, U.S. producers need China, not the other way around.

– Michael Tran

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Despite both countries' desire to avoid a major escalation, there remains a risk of tit-for-tat retaliatory action.

– Akhil Bery

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's not clear where the end-point is for these tit-for-tat tariffs - China will feel it has to make some sort of response.

– Paul Fage

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There certainly is going to be pronounced risks mainly because we've now moved on to the tit-for-tat-for-tit phase of it, this is going to drag on until they can all come to the table and agree to even the playing field. But the unpredictability of the situation continues to rattle the markets.

– Vishnu Varathan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Chinese have to do the tit-for-tat, they have to retaliate.

– John Driscoll

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

These tit-for-tat trade tariffs will ultimately raise prices for consumers and will likely dampen demand for products.

– Jack Ablin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

With Trump's politics, we're in a world of re-aligning alliances. China will not just swallow U.S. tariffs, this is tit-for-tat petroleum diplomacy.

– John Driscoll

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If things got a little bit tit-for-tat, then there are obviously risks at a minimum that we need to be attentive to.

– Martin Anstice

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Hence, this looks like a tit-for-tat response from the steel mills who were feeling international pressure from steel anti-dumping investigations and tariffs.

– Carsten Menke

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is not a tit-for-tat at all, i see that Russia is presenting a very different face to us on security in the Arctic, which is creating concerns, which is requiring NATO and individual countries to reassess its own military means.

– Heather Conley

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It’s never a good idea to pick a fight with the media, by constantly doing this tit for tat, they’re keeping it alive in the news cycle.

– Damaging Press Constantino counters

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We don't think the answer to the crisis in Ukraine is simply to inject more weapons and get into that type of tit-for-tat with Russia.

– Ben Rhodes

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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