This article seems rather disingenuous to me. Of course China knows exactly what Trump is doing. This is both a negotiating tactics and a long term attempt to

This article seems rather disingenuous to me. Of course China knows exactly what Trump is doing. This is both a negotiating tactics and a long term attempt to curb China's rise. In the short term the tactics may work to extract concessions from China. But China will absolutely make sure that it is not held at gun point again and thus in the long term it won't work.