The US has exhausted all its low hanging fruit, whilst China still has several big cards to play. Once the US starts implementing the high/high category, that's when China will deploy its cards
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
The US has the most serial murderers per capita for a reason.
In the long term, this approach is a clear losing proposition...but you are still too young (250 years old) to understand it.
You cannot piss the world and think of yourself to be clever.
To understand this, just do the (apparently impossible) thought experiment of putting yourself in the shoes of the receiving end, call it Zelensky or China or European citizens (Brussels bureaucrats have been appointed by Biden admin and are just puppets), and then, from that point of view look at US and ask yourself a couple of questions.
US empire, like all other empires before, prospers as long as its "provinces" prosper too. If the empire starts to grossly take advantage of their provinces, this is the begin of the end. The route forward is all but drawn already. There are many historical examples of this.
No empire survives in the long term on a zero-sum game imposed on its vassal states.
The Ukrainians probably already despise Americans. They know or will eventually know this was all caused by the Americans, particularly Trump when started handing over Javelins to Ukraine in the first place. Also there is no "deal" as of yet, because there is still a conflict taking place and by the looks of it, poor Ukraine might end up being handed over to Trump as powdered cement, or worse taken by Russia in its entirety. The point is until this conflict is concluded, nobody is winning anything, and as of now, this win is the equivalent of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
No they won’t. They came back because they much rather be part of the West. They want to be like Poland. They want to join the EU. Etc….
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Much rather as in, they don't want to be devoured by Russia. They still hate the US for treating their president like that, and for no reason. People don't forget these things. Trying and failing to scalp someone in a deal is like trying and failing to kill someone's kid. Nobody's thanking you for screwing it up and it doesn't lay grounds for any positivity.
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As a direct consequence of His immense and peerless leadership, the should tariff negotiations with the Trump administration necessitate such a measure.
According to :
Another immeasurable victory for the greatest president in American history!
That’s no longer growing a spine, that’s regrowing their balls…
Biden managed to unite Russia with China.
Trump will manage to unite Japan with China.
Where is that meme of Xi doing nothing and winning?