Trump is the gift that keeps giving to China

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1. >Aiding the emergence of a strong and counterbalancing India has been America’s most important China play in the last quarter of a century. But Trump keeps going the extra mile to cast doubt on whether that still holds. Having claimed (falsely according to India) that he stopped India and Pakistan from going to war in May, Trump is going out of his way to woo Pakistan. On the same day in June that Trump invited Modi to Washington, he had a private lunch with Asim Munir, Pakistan’s military chief. American presidents do not share one-to-one meals with heads of foreign armies. Yet for Pakistan he made an exception. Modi politely declined Trump’s invitation. Now Trump is taunting India that it has a “dead economy” and might one day have to import its oil from Pakistan. This is how you lose friends and squander influence.

   >Taiwan has just as strong grounds as India to worry that the world is turning upside down. Trump has slapped 20 per cent tariffs on the world’s largest semiconductor hub and accused it of ripping off America. Last week he denied Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, permission to stop over in New York for fear of offending China. Kissinger’s stance of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan — that China could never bet on America not coming to Taiwan’s aid — has been supplanted by tactical myopia. Trump is capable of bargaining away Taiwan’s security to win trade concessions from China.

   China has surpassed the U.S. in GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP). To effectively contain China, the U.S. should not isolate itself from global trade. Instead, it should form a large free-trade alliance that excludes China. Bullying East Asian allies is the worst possible policy and is counterproductive.

2. The article didn’t mention it, but I wonder when China will be able to grab the prime seat in higher education as well. A lot of articles on [Phys.org](http://Phys.org) are published by Chinese authors and from Chinese universities, slowly gaining publishings and momentum. As Trump actively attacks American higher ed, that slows US momentum while China’s keeps progressing.

3. Usa fumbled this future 50 years so bad. They could have organized a complete collaborative effort to develop counter Chinese influence and it’s scales of production. Neither it can rival China, neither it can give trust in allies.

   Neither could China play the world power and Usa but people and countries will look at China with more hopes.

4. China isn’t going to be around much longer, atleast not in this current form. The economy is a house of cards and clearly stagnating. With the demographics added in they are clearly not going to last long term. What we should focus on in the west is not trying to contain China, but use its industry to rebuild our own while China still exists.

5. The assertion that Trump is trying to “woo” Pakistan at the expense of relations with India could make sense if the argument is that the United States doesn’t need to worry about orienting India against China because we can count on them always having opposing interests and great power rivalry. Thus, the United States can afford to attempt to pull Pakistan away from the PRC’s orbit even if it offends India.

   I don’t necessarily think it’s a strong argument, but it’s my attempt to form a plausible argument that makes sense.

6. Trump will give Taiwan away if China offers his company a few billion $ contract. He is corrupt and idiot.
   He has destroyed US’s soft power in years which took US decades to build. He can’t do basic math.

7. Trump is a fool and corrupt as heck. Plain and simple. Every action he takes is either due to him being a fool or because he’s corrupt. I find it ironic that he campaigned on challenging China but every action he’s taken has been to China’s benefit: the tariffs, the abrasive bombastic talk, and the failure to require ByteDance to sell TikTok or be shut down in the US have all boosted China in one way or another.

   This opinion piece from The Hill explains the dangers of TikTok [https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5432077-tiktok-china-influence-us/](https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5432077-tiktok-china-influence-us/)

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