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[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

???

The orange wiggler actively started a trade war against China, encourages asian hate among his deplorables, and wants to do everything to hurt China.

Biden is willing to work with China, and Obama was pro-China.

They can't figure it out? Really?

[–] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The orange wiggler actively started a trade war against China

No he didn't, he just put some tariffs in place. Tariffs Biden has left in place. Trump was more aggressive against Canadian trade than he was China.

encourages asian hate among his deplorables

They don't care about Asian hate in the US; they may even support it so their most valuable people aren't tempted to immigrate to the US.

wants to do everything to hurt China.

China is one of the many, many issues on which Trump talks a big game but didn't actually do much about.

With Trump, the CCP knows they can bribe him with personal things (like trademarks) that don't cost them anything to get what they want in foreign policy; as they, the Saudis, Russians, and everyone quickly figured out Trump is more than willing to undermine America's interests for his own gain.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Obama wasn't pro-China. You see, that's the problem - NOT being a frothing-at-the-mouth loon is actually bad for China, because China looks like a pretty unappealing alternative to aligning with the US in South-East Asia right now. If America looks racist, moronic, and on the brink of collapse, China looks more appealing to SEA nations by comparison.

[–] DdCno1@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

I think you would have been right with this analysis a couple of years ago, before Xi's moronic "wolf warrior diplomacy" really took off. He managed to so thoroughly ruin China's standing with almost every one of its neighbors (and beyond) that even a USA under Trump is considered a far more pleasant alternative right now.

You can see this wolf warrior mentality even in how their online trolls and the loyal part of their diaspora (often indistinguishable from one another) are behaving online.