Posted on 11/01/2025 10:30:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump’s trade war isn’t working, but neither did previous administrations’ policy of accommodation.
As President Trump meets Xi Jinping in South Korea, I believe America’s China strategy needs a course correction—but not a knee-jerk reversion to a pre-Trump status quo. If we want to win the competition with China, we need to think well beyond the next election and even the next decade. We need to rebuild a durable bipartisan consensus over how to approach the world’s most consequential relationship. That will require a plan that avoids the big swings we’ve seen in our China strategy the past two decades.
For nine months Mr. Trump has waged a damaging and unsustainable trade war with China that is raising costs for American families. The war hasn’t rebalanced trade, reduced the export of Chinese precursors for the fentanyl arriving in our cities, or held Beijing accountable for its aggressive gray-zone activities across the Indo-Pacific. At the same time, Mr. Trump has eroded many of the critical sources of strength we most need to compete with China—the collective economic leverage of our alliances, strategic foreign-aid programs, counter-disinformation tools, and the diplomatic infrastructure that advances American interests and influence globally.
Meanwhile, China has benefited from the consistency and patient strategy that its autocratic system and entrenched leadership allow. Mr. Xi and his lieutenants plan for outcomes in decades, not election cycles. He has set a goal of 2049 for China to become a “modern socialist country” and, more ominously, of 2027 for readiness to invade Taiwan.
America’s messy, imperfect democracy is among its greatest strengths. But as traditions of bipartisanship have eroded, especially in foreign policy, our global position has weakened. Adversaries have taken note. Huge foreign-policy swings in recent years have confused and weakened allies, damaged complex trading relationships, and created opportunities for enemies...
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You forgot barf alert.
You're not smart enough to come to your own conclusion? You need a laugh track?
Lazy pricks.
Weird comment.
You agree with me the article is a bunch of crap or are you endorsing the article?
Weird comment.
False premise.
I think people are smart enough to come to their own conclusions without a laugh track.
Evidently you do not.
Plus, it is against FR posting rules to modify the title.
You’re insane. Barf alert in titles is decades olds.
Saying there should be a barf alert is a comment on the article, not an attack on the poster, as you took it.
I figure you have access to a hacked old freeper account.
Apparently to post leftist propaganda.
Another false premise.
People violate the posting rules all the time without consequence, just like people violate speed limits all the time without consequence.
Doesn't change the rule.
I'll let you have the last false premise word.
“America’s messy, imperfect democracy is among its greatest strengths.” Imperfect use of the word “democracy”?
Democracy in America is in the Marketplace, not in the government. We need to incentivize those dependent on welfare to exploit the marketplace. We need to remove barriers to marketplace strength.
We need more Elon Musk type immigrants.
We need to strengthen ties with Japan, S Korea, Taiwan, Philipines, etc that hem in China. Our tariffs should be tilted in favor of free countries and against threats to our security.
Having a bipartisan China strategy is what got us a massive trade deficit with them.
Bi-partisan? That’s tough to do when most of the group has been bought off by the CCP.
It’s had one.
It was the wrong one, though.
the wall st journal is the mouthpiece of the cpc
Bifaced has been working....lol
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