Why Hillary Clinton is a bigger concern for China than Donald Trump

The South China Morning Post ^ | October 15, 2016 | Pepe Escobar

[2ndDivisionVet]

So you think Donald Trump is the biggest threat to world peace? And Barack Obama engineered America’s “pivot to Asia”?

It was actually Hillary Clinton, emphasising the necessity of a “strategic turn” for the United States, who launched the pivot to Asia in an October 2011 article titled “America’s Pacific Century”. The tone was martial: “Our military is by far the strongest and our economy is by far the largest.” The South China Sea duly featured: “Half the world’s merchant tonnage flows through this water”. Informed observers didn’t need a manual to spot Clinton’s subtle cue alerting them to the danger of China’s “nine-dashed line”.

Clinton’s essay preceded Obama’s November 2011 speech to the Australian Parliament in which he officially announced the pivot. The key theme was the US as a “Pacific nation”. The tone was mostly combative. Only after 10 long confrontational paragraphs did a meek “effort to build a cooperative relationship with China” appear....

[reasonisfaith]

Donald Trump, the friendly competitor.

Hillary Clinton, the malignant enemy.

Not a tough choice.

[Yulee]

Planted story to prop up Hillary’s lack results. China frees Hillary? Never.

[Yulee]

Planted story to prop up Hillary’s lackluster results. China fears Hillary? Never. (corrected).

[caww]

There's so much being put out there being flooded now by the Clinton/Obama machinery..and most of it insignificant, which is the point.....just to distract from Hillary's actual miserable failures. It's an Alynsky tactic well known and used when their backs are being pushed against a wall....that and all the sexual innuendos.

[reasonisfaith]

Don’t know anything about the story. But when the two strongest qualities of a potential US president are corruption and incompetence, this is very problematic for China or any foreign nation.