{"id":122830,"date":"2018-07-26T08:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=122830"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:43:55","slug":"the-chinese-view-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=122830","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese View Of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: From the Financial Times via Marginal Revolution:<\/p>\n

\nI have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by [Trump’s] skill as a strategist and tactician\u2026He [Yafei] worries that strategic competition has become the new normal and says that \u201ctrade wars are just the tip of the iceberg\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2026In Chinese eyes, Mr Trump\u2019s response is a form of \u201ccreative destruction\u201d. He is systematically destroying the existing institutions \u2014 from the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement to Nato and the Iran nuclear deal \u2014 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\u2019s 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\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Comment: “In my line of work, I have a lot of contact with Chinese specialists, usually on European or security issues. It always struck me as interesting how morose they were regarding Trump when I asked them \u2013 they never fell into the trap of dismissing him as a vulgarian and laughing their worries away like the Western Euros.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes: From the Financial Times via Marginal Revolution: I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by [Trump’s] skill as a strategist and tactician\u2026He [Yafei] worries that strategic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t