Trump on many occasions...
“close to a deal with China”
“Very close to a deal with China”
“...Trump over the weekend threatened new tariffs on China...”
It’s CHINA
The problem is if you make a deal with China, two hours later you need to make another one.
If the sec state is going east, where would that be? We can rule out Teheran. Moscow? He would be there by now so that would be out. Pressing security interests, hum, sounds like not China as that is economic. Israel, Korea, come to mind. Someone said a threat by a proxy, hum, Korea is now a proxy of both Iran and China.