[T]rying to reach a grand bargain with China — what [Trump] was hinting at — would be exactly the wrong approach at this or any other moment.
Trump has already tried to reach an accommodation with China: his Phase One Trade pact of January 2020. He calls it “the best trade deal” ever, but it is now widely viewed as a bust. The Chinese, during an election year in America, never honored its terms.
[Chinese President Xi Jinping’s] actions are the inevitable result of China’s communist political system, which idealizes violence, struggle, and domination. This system means there can be no accommodation with the Communist Party.
The Chinese regime believes the world is its enemy. No enduring understanding, pact, deal or agreement is possible.
“China and the United States can together solve all of the problems of the world, if you think about it,” President-Elect Donald Trump said on December 16, at a Mar-a-Lago press conference. […]
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