Chinese Are ‘Awed’ by Trump’s ‘Skill as a Strategist and Tactician’

Discussion in 'Politics' started by TJustice, Jul 26, 2018.

  1. TJustice

    TJustice

    Top officials and intellectuals in China are “awed’ by President Donald Trump’s “skill as a strategist and tactician,” according to co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations Mark Leonard.
    Writing in the Financial Times, Leonard reports that on a recent trip to China many of those he spoke to 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.

    From the FT:

    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.”

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-gover...y-trumps-skill-as-a-strategist-and-tactician/
     
  2. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    But it's Breitbart and you have two posts though?
     
  3. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Sure

     
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    If you've had sex and you've never had to pay for it, you are a better deal maker than Trump.
     
  5. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    The guy won't pay his own employees but 250 grand to fuck hookers you can get for 2 is consider great deal making.
     
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  7. DTB2

    DTB2

    Funny, but somehow The Trump Organization gets pretty good reviews. But you know differently. :rolleyes:

    https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Trump-Organization/reviews
     
  8. LacesOut

    LacesOut

    Libbies gonna hate!
     
  9. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Lovely reviews


    They need help

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    A more detailed report

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/
     
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  10. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    It's Financial Times, Breitbart just copied it. But yeah, one post was enough.
     
    #10     Jul 26, 2018