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Posted on 04/18/2026 9:26:09 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Donald Trump embarks on a much-anticipated trip to China next month to meet with President Xi Jinping, as the first year-plus of the Trump presidency has redefined global economic affairs and foreign policy.
Trump and Xi are set to meet in Beijing on May 14-15. Over the past 15 months, Trump has reasserted the United States’ role on the global stage, whether it be through economic policy, diplomacy, or military operations. In turn, the developments have certainly redefined the U.S.-China relationship.
“President Trump has undoubtedly restored American strength on the world stage – showing the entire world that the days of Biden-era weakness are over. The President has secured key trade deals, solved eight global conflicts through his peace through strength policies, and built the greatest military in the world – whose results speak for themselves,” White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement.
“The United States is respected again thanks to President Trump’s leadership, and the President looks forward to visiting China, which he is expecting to be a very positive visit that will lay the groundwork for many positive results achieved in the coming years between our countries,” Wales added.
On the economic front, Trump has assembled numerous trade deals that not only strengthen ties between the United States and the respective countries but also counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Following his Liberation Day tariffs announced on April 2, 2025, the president struck major deals with the European Union, the United Kingdom, and numerous countries in China’s backyard, like Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia, while also securing major investments from key Middle East countries. The deals account for more than 85 percent of the global gross domestic product.
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Diplomatically, under Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the United States returned as the premier mediator on the world stage, striking numerous ceasefires and peace agreements. This came after the global instability fostered under the Biden administration, which saw major wars commence between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Hamas following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel.
While the Russia-Ukraine war persists, Trump settled the conflict between Israel and Hamas, while also ending conflicts between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda, Armenia and Azerbaijan, India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia, Egypt and Ethiopia, and reportedly helped prevent what could have led to an escalation in conflict between Serbia and Kosovo.
He’s the Bernie Goetz in a world of bad guys.
It’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it.
He’s the ultimate Bull In The China Shop. Which is sometimes precisely what is needed.
Well, according to the lame stream media, we are now less respected world wide and can only get to maybe a tie with Iran and that little excursion. I feel like such a failure. NOT!
At least one of those conflicts didn’t exist at all, and at least four of them were being managed perfectly well by other parties, without any American intervention needed at all.
How many times now has Trump claimed he’s successfully orchestrated a full reopening of the Hormuz strait (that he’s recently called the Gulf of Iran) that wasn’t closed to anybody at all, ever in all of human history, before Iran was attacked earlier this year?
And every time he does it Iran proves he’s achieved nothing of the sort.
The one thing Trump’s got going for him is, he’s mastered the art of the dead cat strategy. For those who aren’t familiar with the metaphor, imagine a boardroom where nobody’s doing anything productive, and one person throws a dead cat on the table. It doesn’t matter what else might’ve been on the agenda; the people in the room now can’t do anything they wanted to do until after the dead cat’s been acknowledged and dealt with.
There’s an old business adage: “You can’t play chess with a pigeon. The pigeon just knocks all the pieces over, then sh*ts all over the board, then struts around like it won.”
Dead cat tactics are brilliant as long as they’re being used to SOLVE problems. Trump definitely knows how to be a genius with the dead cat strategy. But the trick with this strategy is, you need people to leave the room thinking it was a darned good thing that you threw the dead cat onto the table when you did.
If you are perceived to be disrupting proceedings for the hell of it, or worse creating a problem entirely by yourself but then using the dead cat to force other people to deal with it, then you become a toxic player - the pigeon playing chess.
At the moment, the global diplomatic take is, Trump’s capable of being a genius with the dead cat strategy, but they REALLY don’t like it when he plays the “pigeon playing chess” act.
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