Trump cedes world stage to China

Posted by | January 25, 2017 23:38 | Filed under: Politics

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Flynt Leverett and Robert Sprinkle dare to explain what is really going on in The Great Game:

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s appearance at last week’s World Economic Forum shows global leadership is shifting, not drifting, toward Beijing. The most vigorous defense of globalization and multilateral cooperation was mounted not by an American statesman, but by the president of the People’s Republic of China.

“The problems troubling the world are not caused by globalization,” Xi declared. “Countries should view their own interest in the broader context and refrain from pursuing their own interests at the expense of others.”

Speculation is mounting that the United States, with Donald Trump cast in the role of president, will ignore international challenges, renounce global responsibilities and abandon friends and allies.

As Washington greets a new administration disinclined to play a worldwide role, Beijing increasingly accepts opportunities to lead. Xi and his colleagues understand that their country’s domestic development and global ascendance require steady engagement and honest efforts abroad.

Yes, China has “done the right thing” before. It has restricted antibiotics in food-animal agriculture, created a new infrastructure-development bank for Asia, aided previously exploited African countries and promised to end its internal ivory trade.

But never before has China so forthrightly stepped up when the United States appears to be stepping away. As scholars of Chinese strategy and the intersection of science and politics, we see how Beijing’s ambitions and interests will affect its engagement on a range of important international issues.

You owe it to yourself to read it all. Leverett and Sprinkle provide the sort of intel briefing tio which Trump should be paying attention.


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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

16 responses to Trump cedes world stage to China

  1. Obewon January 25th, 2017 at 23:49

    Of course China’s 1.4 B people would like to fill the power vacuum. Trump’s incapacity sidelines USA record $19 T GDP +4.4% APR vs China’s shrinking $7 T GDP, collapsing exports-10%, amid their continuing recession. It’s broken before you buy it!

    • Budda January 26th, 2017 at 06:18

      Yeah, I’m not too worried about China…they have their own problems.

  2. Guy Lauten January 26th, 2017 at 00:11

    Well duh. The instability The Grabber introduces is anathema to profits, so the wise businessman goes with stable growth, in this case the PRC.
    Such a great businessman that Pussy Grabber. So great. So big. Sad.

  3. Tommie January 26th, 2017 at 00:24

    I saw a propaganda commercial were China said, “We have America right where we want them.”

    • Willys41 January 26th, 2017 at 00:58

      No one has America right where they want it because nobody, Trump included, knows where in the Hell that Trump’s America is at.

  4. granpa.usthai January 26th, 2017 at 00:41

    China is good to their word.

    FAKE PHONY republican ‘patriots’ – as trump for example – are not.

    TRUST still has meaning with the other 97.2% members of the human beings.

    ps: thank trump for trashing the pacific trade agreement.

    It’s a golden opportunity for China to expand their trade and Military Bases.

    and probably cancels out some of the $1,000,000,000.oo debt trump owed to the China Bank.

  5. Willys41 January 26th, 2017 at 00:56

    Trump would have to know that economics is a thing and that would mean reading something more than the label on a box of Fruit Loops.

    • The Original Just Me January 26th, 2017 at 11:34

      But He reads the National Inquirer as His Main news source.

  6. fahvel January 26th, 2017 at 02:16

    China re-entered the modern world and it is emerging fast because it has been observing the bumbling western selfishness for decades – the west has been a great teacher but not a very good student of its own mistakes. Now that the west is being led by a large fat orange child, the future is bleak.

  7. robert January 26th, 2017 at 07:17

    Almost reads like leverette and sprinkle figured out what those who wrote NAFTA couldn’t comprehend.

    Hind sight is 20 / 20 senators and congressmen Good luck with the negotiation

  8. The Original Just Me January 26th, 2017 at 11:38

    Regardless of what China’s Leaders think, They are thinking leaders. We only have the ” Idiot in Chief “.

  9. dogsRgoodpeople January 26th, 2017 at 12:22

    The deplorables think their daddy is going to scare the rest of the world into line. Frankly, I’m going to keep a very close eye on the market .He’s gonna f things up real good and I want to pull my my meager investments out before he does. It might take a year or more but he’s going to have the world hating him and the U S to the point they won’t want to deal with us.

  10. Bunya January 26th, 2017 at 14:40

    tRump’s an idiot. He doesn’t know the meaning of the words, “globalization” and “multilateral cooperation”. Now, if the Chinese women are in need of a good “pussy grabbing” or want to participate in “golden showers”, tRump’s their man.

  11. Benjaman Johnson January 29th, 2017 at 01:00

    China Deploys Nukes to Russian Coast in response to “Trumps Aggression”

    NOT a peep on FOX, Alan, can you put a birdie in their ear please?

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/china-deploys-long-range-nuclear-cpable-missiles-russian-coast-us-president-donald-trump-a7548296.html

  12. Richard Banville January 29th, 2017 at 23:42

    Since Trump’s election I’ve been practicing this phrase:
    我，一个，欢迎我们的新中国领导。
    I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.

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