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

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6 thoughts on “Trump’s UN Broadside Against China Risks Derailing Fragile Negotiations – Again

  1. 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.

  2. “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.

  3. 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.