Nations are economic competitors, it's really naive to put this in terms of 'selfish / confrontational'. All nations are 'selfish' in direct trade terms. In t

Nations are economic competitors, it's really naive to put this in terms of 'selfish / confrontational'. All nations are 'selfish' in direct trade terms. In terms of Geopolitics, there's an enormous degree of material goodwill added by the US following the WW2 and the creation of the NWO and not all of it is 'repaid' to them. The entire framework of global trade relies on the US, even today. Most of the free world still depends on the US for defence, at least partially and in some very 'lynchpin' ways. The US's negotiations with China are reasonable. The negotiating positions on refiguring NAFTA were mostly reasonable, although I don't think it will make a difference. And FYI it's the EU that's constantly skittish, changing their minds, and arbitrarily taxing and back-taxing US companies often for their own, self directed problems (i.e. Irish/Dutch/Luxembourg taxation). Even though Donald Trump is a huge political jerk, making noise for the sake of making noise, there's little on the table that is entirely unjust. The 'bad noise' is mostly rhetoric.