President Trump’s tariffs and rhetoric have spurred some longtime U.S. allies to diversify their trade ties away from the U.S. Some are going cap-in-hand to Asian superpowers China and India.
This follows on from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s successful China visit. Carney’s strategy is to create a new string of economic and defensive alliances with other middle powers in order to combat economic coercion by the United States.
Other middle powers seem to be following suit, such as the UK. Starmer’s current China visit aims at a major reset in trade ties. He has been accompanied by a huge contingent of British bankers and business leaders.
A significant concern is how Washington will respond to these deals, because many of these Western leaders want to retain whatever relationship they still have with Trump.
1-randomonium on
For an President whose stated raison d’entre is to Make America Great Again and return it to a position of global primacy, I don’t think any administration has done more to damage America’s standing in the world than Donald Trump’s. By the end of his term the foundations of a new post-American world order will already be in place, even if the actual American decline takes decades.
Unfortunately, from what I’ve heard and read, Trump and the MAGA movement will only look at these developments as validation that America’s allies aren’t really allies and will abandon them at the first opportunity. I have a feeling that he might try to take an even harder stand on foreign policy if the GOP loses the midterms, because the President will have more control and less blowback from that than from domestic policies.
Hagwart on
That is a stupid reflex, because China has the CCP the next 1.000 years and the US has Donald for a few years and after that we can act normal again.
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President Trump’s tariffs and rhetoric have spurred some longtime U.S. allies to diversify their trade ties away from the U.S. Some are going cap-in-hand to Asian superpowers China and India.
This follows on from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s successful China visit. Carney’s strategy is to create a new string of economic and defensive alliances with other middle powers in order to combat economic coercion by the United States.
Other middle powers seem to be following suit, such as the UK. Starmer’s current China visit aims at a major reset in trade ties. He has been accompanied by a huge contingent of British bankers and business leaders.
A significant concern is how Washington will respond to these deals, because many of these Western leaders want to retain whatever relationship they still have with Trump.
For an President whose stated raison d’entre is to Make America Great Again and return it to a position of global primacy, I don’t think any administration has done more to damage America’s standing in the world than Donald Trump’s. By the end of his term the foundations of a new post-American world order will already be in place, even if the actual American decline takes decades.
Unfortunately, from what I’ve heard and read, Trump and the MAGA movement will only look at these developments as validation that America’s allies aren’t really allies and will abandon them at the first opportunity. I have a feeling that he might try to take an even harder stand on foreign policy if the GOP loses the midterms, because the President will have more control and less blowback from that than from domestic policies.
That is a stupid reflex, because China has the CCP the next 1.000 years and the US has Donald for a few years and after that we can act normal again.