Trump's winning strategy in China and the world. NOT!
From WaPo: President Trump delivered a fiery speech on trade in Danang on Friday, declaring that he would not allow the United States to be “taken advantage of anymore” and planned to place “America first.”
And then, less than 24 hours later, 11 Pacific Rim countries collectively shrugged and moved on without the U.S., signing the TPP without the US.
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There was a very interesting interview with Evan Osnoss on Ezra Klein’s podcast about this. The Chinese government can’t believe this is really happening. This is a process they expected to take another 30-40 years.
But Trump just gave it to them. By pulling out of TPP, by pulling out of Paris, the world has turned to China. China is the economic world leader now.
And with the vanishing of the US state department on the world stage and the weak and laughable Trump president nationally, the moral leadership of the US also rapidly declined. And made it easy to secure more power at home for Xi.
The Chinese almost mistrust this situation, it goes against their ideas on how change works.
In just 10 months and the damage is probably irreparable for the greater part. If Trump would disappear, how can US traditional allies trust it will not happen again soon?
Who would have thought that one man, with the complicity of the GOP could effectively destroy the US as a world leader and reduce it to a poor cousin and that the world would simply move on without us.