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> Imagine if 50 years from now the thing Trump is most remembered for is ending the US' blind eye towards China. > Imagine if he's celebrated as the politicia
by ardy42 6y ago
> Imagine if 50 years from now the thing Trump is most remembered for is ending the US' blind eye towards China.
> Imagine if he's celebrated as the politician who finally acted on principal in a time when the rest of Washington was looking the other way because of cheap manufacturing.
Trump won't be celebrated, since there's no strategy behind what he does: it's all short term self-interest. Bolton says he begged Xi in person to buy US farm products to help with his re-election (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53086042 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53086042) and approved of the concentration camps that are being sanctioned here (https://www.axios.com/trump-uighur-muslim-bolton-73ebf1e2-9d34-4aaf-a9ba-17340d2847e4.html https://www.axios.com/trump-uighur-muslim-bolton-73ebf1e2-9d...).
If anything, Trump's bumbling, impulsive actions caused aspects of an already solidifying consensus on China to firm up a little quicker.