Over ten years, Trump never found the right way to engage with China:Over ten years, Trump never found the right way to engage with China:With the Trump-Xi summit as a marker, the Trump administration should shift its focus and begin fully managing U.S. domestic affairs. As for foreign policy, for now, this is all that can be done: Over ten years, Trump never found the right way to engage with China, but this isn’t Trump’s fault—it’s that for 40 years, the entire world has been trapped in the extreme, unsolvable dilemma created by globalization’s Chinese manufacturing monopoly over the globe. Trump used a series of certainties toward China—such as lowering tariffs and suspending ship taxes—in exchange for a series of uncertainties in China’s expected commitments to purchase soybeans, sorghum, etc., from the U.S. over the next three years, thereby ending the nearly year-long U.S. foreign tariff trade war.
This imperfect situation was not created by Trump, nor can it be perfectly resolved by him in the short term. We Trump supporters have no need to obsess over the outcomes where Trump was constrained—being pinched by Putin on the Russia-Ukraine war or choked by China’s rare earths in the U.S.-China trade war.
Trump is not Superman; he cannot resolve a 40-year accumulated dilemma overnight.
U.S. domestic politics are riddled with deep-rooted ills; not a single major case has been resolved. Before heading to South Korea, Trump was again shouting about the 2020 election fraud issue—this is yesterday’s cold rice, the same old negative complaints.
If Trump doesn’t deal with the aging diva attorney general at the Department of Justice, Trump, no matter how loudly you shout, it’s useless!
FBI’s Comey was indicted—what happened next?
Obama fabricated Russiagate—what happened next?
J6 incident investigation—what happened next?
Biden’s auto-pen scandal—what happened next?
Former FBI Director Wray perjured himself—what happened next?
Domestic politics is foreign policy. If Trump can’t handle his own Department of Justice, Putin and Xi Jinping will never have the slightest awe for Trump.
Because the hilt of America’s knife is still in the hands of the Washington establishment. Plainly speaking, Trump, to this day, still has a mouth but no teeth—he poses no threat whatsoever to Obama, Pelosi, and the like.
A single Schumer, a single AOC, can directly shut down the U.S. government, already leaving millions of Americans without paychecks for two weeks.
To repel the external, one must first secure the internal—the ancients did not deceive me…
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