Norkea is more accessible than Afghanistan and if Trump has made a deal we don’t have to fight for the stuff. If there is a deal it would be primarily with China and would involve some tradeoffs with the tariffs. The best approach with China is the lower taxes and less regulation in America to keep more businesses from going there and from giving up all our tech advances. Getting some of those companies back that are already there doesn’t matter in re secrets because those secrets are already gone. A deal whereby China doesn’t get our secrets from companies that relocate there is fatuous because there is no such possibility.The Norkea deal will work out on many different levels and will involve the South China Sea, too, I believe. Vietnam is getting in a pickle down there. The Phillipines would be next, then Okinawa.
Those are happy thoughts, but do you really think China is going to let itself be surrounded by an alliance of prosperity rather than vassal or stressed and worried states without some pushback?