re: #115 Jay C
He also ought to know that Pakistan has been a “friend” of China’s for many decades (IIRC, the Pakistanis were the go-betweens in Nixon’s original overtures to “Red China”); dating back to the Indian-Chinese border war in the early ’60s. I guess they figured that anybody with a beef against India couldn’t be all bad…
In any case, Pakistan, with its warm-water ports on the Arabian Sea is (AFAIK) slated to be one of China’s major partners in the development of the “Belt and Road” transit system for China/Central Asia. Not sure what Trump is likely to be able to offer the Paks to sway them away from the Chinese orbit: Twitter insults??
He only thinks in terms of what they give him personally.