In the first of a five-part series, international editor Peter Hartcher examines why Donald Trump is more inclined to like a US enemy than a friend if he wins a second term as president.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.US Republicans traditionally put high value on relationships with America’s allies, but what exactly is an ally, and how do you differentiate between an ally and a mere friend?
So on these definitions, a traditional Republican is prepared to die for a US ally, while a MAGA Republican is prepared to sacrifice one. This is a profoundDonald Trump’s admiration for Chinese President Xi Jinping is well known.China, is that America is the centrepiece of a constellation of some 40 alliedBy contrast, China has one treaty ally, North Korea, which it despises, and a few ragtag satrapies that are not so much allies as clients: Pakistan, Cambodia and Laos.
Nonetheless, Xi has portrayed the partnership as the locomotive of history. As he finished his visit to Moscow last year, Xi shook Putin’s hand and said: “Right now there are changes, the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years. And we are the ones driving these changes together.”biggest locomotive of all.It’s very telling that, to date, neither Russia nor China has dared strike a US treaty ally.
Trump went so far in ingratiating himself with China’s dictator that he endorsed his historic mass repression of the Uyghur people in “re-education camps”.thought was exactly the right thing to do,” writes John Bolton, a one-time national security adviser to Trump, recounting a meeting between the two leaders.But Trump waged a trade war against China, imposing big tariffs on its exports to the US.
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