“”the kind of person China might find common ground with despite his threats of a trade war.””
I think they read the “tea leaves” wrong. Do Chinese read tea leaves? It’s not like he didn’t give plenty of heads up for China during the campaign. They should have been able to read between the lines and know he wasn’t coming down on China for just trade deals.
“”I don’t know how you are then going to expect China to cooperate on Iran and North Korea and climate change””
I don’t think we should depend on ANY help from ANYONE when it comes to Iran and/or North Korea...and for climate change? LOL!
China is now and has always been supporting North Korea. If China wanted them gone, they would be gone.