The damage caused by Donald Trump to the United States’ reputation is creating opportunities for China, particularly with regards to Taiwan, according to a retired senior colonel from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Speaking to the Guardian in Beijing, Zhou Bo said that Trump was damaging the US’s reputation “more than all of his predecessors combined”.
“By the end of his second term, I believe America’s global image will simply become more tarnished, its international standing will just go down further,” Zhou said. The people of Taiwan “know that America is going down”, which “might affect their mentality” with regards to China.
This was Trump‘s goal. He’s a Kremlin stooge. Putin wanted the world order disrupted, and he got it with comrade Trump.
He’s probably absolutely flabbergasted that his investment is paying off far better than he could have ever forseen.
If you read the whole article, his actual statements sound pretty reasonable. Like he describes (to paraphrase) China and Russia as partners but not an alliance like two parallel lines that run next to each other but never overlap. And he doesn’t sound belligerent about Taiwan. More of a “As America collapses and China rises, maybe Taiwan will want to be a part of China proper as the most powerful nation.”
I don’t necessarily agree that China’s rise is inevitable and nor is America’s decline. (The last two days haven’t helped the latter but America has a short memory.) China’s economy, for all its strengths, can be sclerotic and legally uncertain. Trump is obviously a wildcard so the U.S. isn’t in a position to judge there. If I were rich, I wouldn’t know where to invest in either nation. Both countries, to me, need some significant reforms.
So, anyway, I’m not endorsing his newsletter or whatever but it doesn’t seem like he’s just spouting off jingoism.
Not an alliance? They run joint naval exercises and cooperate on social media psy-ops, they couldn’t be more allied if Putin and Jinping shared an apartment and fucked on the balcony.
Jingping is the Given Name, Xi is the Family Name. Usually world leaders are referred to by their Family Name.
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Got it, The Murderous Cocksucker Winnie the Pooh. Did that clarify what jndividual I was referring to?
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I mean, we could call hitler the “austrian dude who failed art school twice”
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China have been running rings around America for the past 30 years.
I blame Nixon for this one. Opening and normalizing relations with a communist country under a time when America was at an ideological war with the communists was dumb at best and treasonous at worst, at least in my opinion.
Yeah this communism thing sounds terrible. According to needs and ability? Like a meritocracy? Fuck that, lets find something that concentrates wealth into the hands of the few, like a monarchy or something…
As I said once my accident in a .ML community once, “I may hate capitalism, but I hate communism more.”
I’ll take the devil I know first hand, though, rather than the devil I’ve only seen through history books and leaked videos.
vows to tariff war against China
tariffs Canada, Mexico, and Taiwan upon entering office
Can’t tell if successful Russian/Chinese operation, or Trump is just mega stupid lol.
I think both.
America was already bowing to china because of Biden. Dont be fooled.
Lmao
