[DannyTN]

If I led China now,

• I'd want to continue stealing as many U.S. industries as I could.
• So I'd publish every week how financial disaster is about to befall China and how everything China is doing is a house of cards.
• I'd work hard to make sure that the free trade ideology doesn't lose any of it's clout. I'd be making major donations to CATO and other like minded organizations, but I would try to hide that the funds are coming from China.
• I probably wouldn't make waves with Japan or Taiwan.
• I wouldn't copy Putin. Let Putin be America's problem, let them give me even more trade clout.

[1rudeboy]

I'd work hard to make sure that the free trade ideology doesn't lose any of it's clout. I'd be making major donations to CATO and other like minded organizations, but I would try to hide that the funds are coming from China.

China can simply donate to the Democrats, as it has in the past.

[lee martell]

Very good points. Esp. 3rd and last. Keep the capitalist fires burnin and churnin needed revenue, and play the Good Cop against Putin’s Villian character Bad Cop Russki. Even the stone cold Maoists know that you need some amount of free trade to be allowed in order to keep the economy perpetuating itself. Hellsinki can wait.