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Posted on 12/24/2025 8:33:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
When describing U.S. President Donald Trump’s governing style, and particularly his relationships with other countries, two words tend to come up frequently: “mercurial” and “transactional.”
The latter suits several U.S. allies, partners, and even adversaries just fine, while the former has buffeted even some of Washington’s closest and most enduring partnerships over the past year.
In examining which countries have benefited the most and least from the second Trump administration, we intentionally excluded the parties to the two biggest conflicts that it is trying to mediate—one between Israel and Hamas, the other between Russia and Ukraine. Both of those conflicts remain largely unresolved (despite the former pair agreeing to a cease-fire in October), and Trump’s mercuriality has seen his positions on those conflicts fluctuate over the past year.
With that said, here are five countries that have played the Trump game most successfully, as well as five others that have found themselves at a loss.
It might seem strange to include the United States’ biggest adversary and peer competitor in the winner column, but it’s hard to argue that China has suffered significantly during Trump’s second administration—particularly in comparison to the bruising trade war and technology curbs of his first one, an approach that was continued and even expanded by the Biden administration.
Some of those technology curbs—including the sale of semiconductor chips to China and a proposed U.S. ban on Chinese-owned tech platform TikTok—now appear to be up for debate, if not outright relaxed.
Trump did dramatically escalate tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States early in his term, but he de-escalated them equally as fast following an October meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.
That meeting yielded a trade truce that was largely seen as slightly more favorable to China...
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
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WINNERS ARE: CHINA, SAUDI ARABIA, SYRIA, ARGENTINA, PAKISTAN
LOSERS ARE: VENEZUELA, IRAN, SOUTH AFRICA, CANADA and INDIA
It is astonishing how magnets and the absence of a deal being signed, rather than just a “framework” is staying out of the media.
There was an article that China loosened their export controls for magnets strictly for Ford. No military purchasers will be sold to. And this is completely out of the news. It’s amazing.
The biggest losers by far will be Ottawa-Regime poiticians, bureaucrats, Federal and Supreme Court assh0les, and other hangers-on.
If Canada is Annexed, or is broken up, or individual provinces declaring independence there is no role for the Ottawa gov’t and associated parasites.
And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch !
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