{"id":80828,"date":"2018-07-27T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80828"},"modified":"2018-07-27T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T16:54:09","slug":"report-chinese-are-awed-by-trumps-skill-as-a-strategist-and-tactician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80828","title":{"rendered":"Report: Chinese Are \u2018Awed\u2019 by Trump\u2019s \u2018Skill as a Strategist and Tactician\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Financial Times<\/a> reporter Mark Leonard finds that on a recent trip to China, many top officials and intellectuals in China were \u201cawed” by President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cskill as a strategist and tactician,\u201d and said \u201cthat Mr Trump is the US first president for more than 40 years to bash China on three fronts simultaneously: trade, military and ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chinese see Trump as rejecting the idea that U.S. leaders should be managing the relative decline of the U.S. They think Mr Trump feels he is presiding over the relative decline of his great nation. It is not that the current order does not benefit the US. The problem is that it benefits others more in relative terms. To make things worse the US is investing billions of dollars and a fair amount of blood in supporting the very alliances and international institutions that are constraining America and facilitating China\u2019s rise.<\/p>\n

In 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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Leonard goes on to say that while China is taking a tough stance in its conflict with the U.S. now, \u201cmany Chinese\u201d think that their leaders should rethink the strategy. Instead of confronting the U.S. and seeking to build an anti-U.S. coalition, China should \u201cprepare the ground for a new grand bargain with the US based on Chinese retrenchment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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