China Is Eating Trump’s Lunch-Huffington Post
‘Scuse me but that’s OUR lunch. Our economy, our foreign policy, our military risks to take or avoid. Our best friends/allies on the world stage. We are getting our asses handed to us. The long term ramifications will be deeply entrenched if we don’t act soon.
As Trump looks backwards — trumpeting tariffs and promising to resurrect coal — China moves forward. As Trump shuns the European Union, China courts it. China is now Germany’s principal trading power, a leader in developing cutting-edge automobiles, the mobile Internet, and safer nuclear power. According to US News & World Report, China’s top engineering school has surpassed MIT…
A centerpiece of China’s geopolitical strategy is the “Belt and Road” initiative, an ambitious plan to finance and develop infrastructure and connectivity linking all of Asia to Europe and the Middle East — including an infrastructure bank intended to cement China’s economic leadership throughout the region. Its goal is to supplant the world’s existing economic order with one that serves Chinese prosperity and power.
…Whatever America’s faults, by tradition we espouse humane and democratic values. A Chinese-led world order would be morally impoverished. Yet, soon enough, China’s economic power may cause our traditional allies — in Asia and Europe — to turn away. Thus will Donald Trump help make China great again.