Cool Character?
Leveled-headed?
Strategic Thinker?
Great Negotiator?
Sorry, Donnie, you’re batting 0 for 4.
“China still doesn’t understand the American logic,”
Trump’s logic. Nonsensical. Irresponsible. Idiotic.
Need I go on?
Driving folks apart is what Trumpler is good at. He’s had a lot of practice.
“But I said you weren’t a currency manipulator. We shared beautiful chocolate cake together and classified information in public about a great missile strike.”
Thinking about it, China has good reason not to cross NK too much. They are much closer to the nuclear weapons NK is developing.
When it comes to dealing with the Chinese, Donnie is going to learn really, really fast that when it comes to deal-making and manipulation they are in a league way over his head. They have to be laughing their asses off about that fat pompous long nose.
Okay, so Trump was going to vastly improve relations with Russia. Sure, if “well on our way to vassaldom” counts as an improvement.
And he was going to show those Chinese who’s boss. Until he met one face to face, and then the idea was that we would work together like chums (no, I did not leave out the “p” in that word) to fix this little North Korea mess. Except that it turns out our interests aren’t as completely aligned as they might seem in a convivial dinner chat at Mar-A-Klepto.
Meanwhile, he has done everything in his power to disrupt, damage, and generally piss on our traditional friendships and alliances, which we will now sorely need, having blown it with our two major strategic rivals.
Thing is, our most important allies also tend to be the nations we trade with the most, which includes such heinous acts as them selling us stuff. But who could have known that?
Man, this international relations stuff is complicated. Who knew?
Yes. They also really, really don’t want North Korea to fall apart. It would be bad enough to have millions of starving refugees pouring into China, bad enough to have such a highly militarized state suddenly become a failed state. (Imagine Somalia with way more tanks and guns.)
But a failed state with nukes in its suddenly-uncontrolled arsenals? Beyond bad. And just a truck ride away from downtown Beijing.
Bonus question: Does anyone believe that “regime change” in the DPRK would happen without widespread chaos in its wake? And does anyone believe that the Chinese believe this?