Posted on 01/29/2021 6:40:42 AM PST by Onthebrink
Is the future of Republican foreign policy Trumpian? Matthew Kroenig, deputy director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, thinks that Trumpism will not define the future of foreign policy. Kroenig is writing primarily to push back against a narrative he sees among foreign-policy professionals and commentators here and abroad that the Republican Party is permanently changed, becoming “a more isolationist GOP — one that is skeptical of free trade and international institutions, indifferent to democracy and traditional allies, and solicitous toward dictators, such as Russian president Vladimir Putin.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Trumpism? *sigh* It was our last best hope. There are a few tepid practitioners on the national scene, but the Dems and the media will never allow them to seize any kind of meaningful power.
The public has given the nod that it’s ok for the Dems and the media to cheat and lie, as long as the cell phones work.
Just say NO to the National Review.
"China may drive some Trumpy-nationalism, particularly on trade. But America should also be open to yet more events, including the possibility that China’s bullying behavior internally and in Hong Kong is driven by fundamental weaknesses that will reveal themselves progressively over time. The day when talk of China as a rising great power becomes obsolete may be sooner than we think."
represents a hope, not a strategy. The Soviet Union didn't collapse while we twiddled our thumbs: it took decades of pushback, and during that time we weren't funding our enemy and allowing it to loot our technology at will. China has structural and strategic weaknesses, and we should be acting to amplify those weaknesses as much as possible.
In addition, the problem isn't just China. The US simply cannot allow the transfer of all our high tech and manufacturing to mercantilist entities in East Asia, which includes Taiwan, South Korea and other countries.
The excerpt is a dreadful mischaracterisation of Trumpian foreign policy. No article adopting those premises can be very helpful except to reveal the biases of the author.
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