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Trump’s UN Broadside Against China Risks Derailing Fragile Negotiations – Again
Nobody was safe during Donald Trump's address at the UN General Assembly.
The speech was an odd combination of "teleprompter Trump", "nationalist crusader Trump" and "foreign policy hawk Trump". That amalgamation manifested itself in the deliberate, menacing monotone the US president employed in the course of addressing a laundry list of foes and grievances and tilting at a collection of familiar windmills.
China didn't escape his scorn, even as the tenuous truce that's buoyed market sentiment
You left out his initial campaign speech listing how great things are since his election. I’m sure his audience was riveted and full of admiration.
he uses any gains or positive attitude towards the financial mkts as his own political capital. mkts up? good now I can go throw shade.
Disparaging China via tweet is one thing. Standing in front of the world’s representatives and unequivocally disparaging China is quite another. The formality of it was striking. We’re accustomed to off-the-cuff lampooning, but this is something far more chilling to hear.
“We want balanced trade that is both fair and reciprocal… ” Another stone-cold lie. Trump and hawks throughout the U.S. military/security complex are hell-bent on global American superpower hegemony for…well, forever. Clearly, none of them has ever read any history.
The impeachment can’t happen fast enough.
The Trump administration seems internally not well coordinated. It would not be surprising if China was not given a heads-up on Trump’s speech. Even if it was, the speech was so implacably hostile that a courtesy notice may not have helped. Bringing Hong Kong into it doesn’t help either.