Report: Chinese Are ‘Awed’ by Trump’s ‘Skill as a Strategist and Tactician’
Financial Times reporter Mark Leonard finds that on a recent trip to China, many top officials and intellectuals in China were “awed” by President Donald Trump’s “skill as a strategist and tactician,” and said “that Mr Trump is the US first president for more than 40 years to bash China on three fronts simultaneously: trade, military and ideology.”
The Chinese see Trump as rejecting the idea that U.S. leaders should be managing the relative decline of the U.S. They think Mr Trump feels he is presiding over the relative decline of his great nation. It is not that the current order does not benefit the US. The problem is that it benefits others more in relative terms. To make things worse the US is investing billions of dollars and a fair amount of blood in supporting the very alliances and international institutions that are constraining America and facilitating China’s rise.
In Chinese eyes, Mr Trump’s response is a form of “creative destruction”. He is systematically destroying the existing institutions — from the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement to Nato and the Iran nuclear deal — as a first step towards renegotiating the world order on terms more favourable to Washington.
Once the order is destroyed, the Chinese elite believes, Mr Trump will move to stage two: renegotiating America’s relationship with other powers. Because the US is still the most powerful country in the world, it will be able to negotiate with other countries from a position of strength if it deals with them one at a time rather than through multilateral institutions that empower the weak at the expense of the strong.
Leonard goes on to say that while China is taking a tough stance in its conflict with the U.S. now, “many Chinese” think that their leaders should rethink the strategy. Instead of confronting the U.S. and seeking to build an anti-U.S. coalition, China should “prepare the ground for a new grand bargain with the US based on Chinese retrenchment.”
Tired of winning yet?
Category: China
‘Bout damn time, too!
Let’s remember that during WWII, the Chinese were our allies in the war in the Pacific against Japan. The pilots who flew the Hump (the Flying Tigers – I met one in the 1960s, his granddaughter was a friend of mine) all wore leather bomber jackets that had “I am an American, a friend of the Chinese people” printed on them in three languages.
Mr. Trump is smart enough to recognize that cooperative agreements will benefit both the USA and China.
Now if he can just get Vlad to agree, maybe the slow and agonizing slide into oblivion will cease and desist. (Much to the disappointment of the Leftreds, I’m sure.)
I think I read something about refubishing Tinian and a couple of other islands where we had bases (still there, but defunct) during WWII. I will look that up.
that’s an interesting article…flies in the face of the entire “middle kingdom” complex. food for thought.
Or they’re just blowing smoke up our ass..
In any event, the Chinese are certainly acting much more mature than is the American left.
That’s not a heavy lift.
Sure beats the apology tour of Odumbo for eight years!!!
President Trump isn’t afraid to negotiate from a position of strength. That’s one of many things I like about him. We are the USA, not some chicken-s**t tinpot dictatorship. Particularly liked the tweet at (insert Middle Eastern toilet here) saying we’re gonna drop Armageddon on their ass if they keep poking the Eagle!
Shhhh! Trump is an idiot that can’t tie his own shoe without a hand-job from a porn star. He is clueless on the world economy and the military and loud mouth blowhard know nothing about how democracy works. And a raciss! A triple raciss since he hates black people, brown people and yellow people. He could not force negotiate a trade with the EU if they paid him good money! He is a tool for Putin and actually Russian! He is a politician who tole lies! CNN, MSNBC, all three netwroks, NYT, WaPO, HuffPO media everywhere agree. He is going to destroy the entire world! This is why the economy is fail and North Korea is planning big sneak attack with fake getting rid of nuclear bombs and pretend to send back dead US soldier bones! Doan be a fool!
(I probably should have put that in all caps)
Or…. maybe…. this is what it looks like when and adult is in charge, puts his nation first and isn’t afraid to make people butt hurt when they deserve it.
Take your head out of that sack, you don’t have a freaking clue what you are talking about, you are just another brainwashed media groupie with an iq that is minimal at best!
Need to reboot your sarcasm detector, desert,
It’s amazing to watch him battle with the #libidiots on a daily basis and leave them all sitting there spitting and foaming at the mouth with nothing but, but, but, but…. coming out of their mouths.
Meanwhile back on the farm, our TRULY, FEARLESS leader moves on to the next thing and they still sit there spitting and sputtering about #RUSSIARUSSIARUSSIA !!!!
The European trade deal that took less than three days to solve by our great #PresidentTrump and brought the entire European union sheepishly crawling on their knees to get a good deal !!!
It really does remind me of our other fearless leader, Jonn Lilyea dealing with Bernasty and so many other SV clowns !!!
God I’m going to miss Jonn, and I never met him in person either. He was just one hell of a guy and I had the utmost respect for him, what he did and how well he handled it.
Twitter is Trump’s laser pointer and the media are his cats.
-That- is -so- apt.
How come my posts do not show up? They used to come up as moderated, now they don’t show up at all?