Trump is furious with China, but is making US enemies big again

President Donald Trump is furious because China is establishing friendships with his dictator friends

Trump exploded on social networks on Tuesday night-when television images showed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to receive authoritarian leaders from Russia and North Korea in an impressive military parade in Beijing.

“Please give my most warm greetings to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un while you conspire against the United States of America,” Trump wrote in a message to XI.

The publication on the world, which has been around the world, means one thing: if China’s two major meetings with authoritarian leaders, US opponents, and former allies this week were intended to personally offend the US President, they worked perfectly. And underlined the futility of their attempts to submit the true strong men to their negotiator charm and their allegations that their allegedly close relationships with these leaders may be decisive.

Trump met with Putin in Alaska last month, but his effusive reception with red carpet so far has not been able to unlock any progress to end the war in Ukraine. Putin challenged Trump’s hopes by intensifying civilian attacks and is delaying negotiations with President Volodymyr Zelensky. The summits of the US President’s first term with Kim were equally unsuccessful. The North Korean leader now has more nuclear weapons than he had before participating in Trump’s photographic diplomacy.

“Many Americans have died in search of China for victory and glory. I hope they will be properly honored and remembered for their bravery and sacrifice!” Trump wrote.

China’s great celebration takes place at a tense international moment, when the new Asian superpower seeks to capitalize on Trump’s erratic foreign policy, which destroyed the reputation of the United States as a great reliable power.

Trump’s fury was ironic, since the last days in China have been the scene of the type of performance spectacle he loves.

But the gathering of anto -wind power in Tianjin and Beijing is more than a provocation. It is an early warning that Trump’s second term policies based on tariff coercion, minor powers intimidation and America First nationalism may be leaving the Culatra.

“China is enjoying the mistakes or misconceptions the US (are making),” said Jackie Sh Wong, an assistant professor of international studies at Sharjah, CNN Becky Anderson on the “Connect The World” program on Tuesday.

“We are not intimidated”

Some of the alarmist conversations about China and Russia build a new axis of resistance to the US are exaggerated. The nations represented at the Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the city of Tianjin, northern China, do not have joint formal defense agreements or joint economic sovereignty comparable to groups such as NATO or the European Union.

Territorial tensions periodically ek between China and India. Moscow may need China’s help in the war in Ukraine, but Kremlin is still getting used to being secondary superpower. And despite the authoritarian regime of the Communist Party, China suffers from internal political and economic pressures, demonstrated by the regular purgos of senior employees and military officers held by XI.

But the festivities of the last days are part of China’s broader effort to show its emerging power and test alternative global affiliations and systems while seeking to eclipse the West. By bringing together leaders from Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere, China has shown the ability of a block to thwart the US global power on several fronts.

A high US military leader minimized the importance of events in China on Tuesday.

“Nations such as China, North Korea, Russia and others hold this type of event. Certainly there is a big focus on the message,” said General Kevin Schneider, a US Air Forces Commander in an online lecture.

“But I think the lesson to take this is that we don’t let ourselves intimidate,” said Schneider.

Much of this is prior to Trump.

Eight decades after the end of World War II, it is not surprising that institutions born after horror need a reformulation. The rise of nations in populous development would always threaten American hegemony and the overall system built by the West. And as the last members of the grand generation disappear, the triumph of democracies in World War II is becoming history rather than a tangible human memory.

But Trump’s choices in the first eight months of his second term are accelerating a change from global power to the East. They are favoring Xi’s search to relive what he believes is China’s legitimate global prominence. Trump attacks on allied and the desecration of US foreign aid programs are generating resentment among former American friends, who are now betting on alternative superpower.

Incredibly, the force that most contributes to undermine the West is the president of the country – the United States – who has ensured freedom and democracy for generations.

How Trump is undermining US power

Many measures that Trump takes to demonstrate US power end up mining it.

In facing Beijing in a massive commercial offensive, Trump chose the only nation that would be ready to absorb the economic impact to harm the US. Now Trump has found that Beijing has a trump card: the control of a large part of rare metals that the US needs to operate its technological industry and military applications. Trump’s failure to force Beijing to retreat is reinforcing the feeling that she is ready to challenge American power – and attract foreign leaders to Beijing.

Tarphous Tariff attacks on US business partners – based on their guesses rather than economic data – and attempts to restrict the independence of the federal reserve reinforce China’s previously uncomfortable allegations that it, not the United States, is the stable superpower in which partners can rely. Among the nations represented in Tianjin, for example, there were many who in recent years have turned more to Washington than to Beijing, including Vietname – who faces severe US tariffs – Egypt and NATO member Turkey.

The most surprising example of Trump’s clumsy and counterproductive behavior was evident in the attention dismissed throughout the summit in Tianjin to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a populist nationalist leader and former friend of Trump. Trump’s allegations of resolving a conflict between India and Pakistan earlier this year and the demands of the Nobel Peace Prize rage Modi. A 50% rate on Indian imports to the US has fractured almost 30 years of efforts by Republican presidents and Democrats to prevent India and China from preventing a thousand million people each – approaching.

Laughing and squeezing hands, Xi and Modi argued that their two countries have long separated by distrust could be partners and not rivals.

Modi’s interaction with a youthful putin was even more evident. Last month, the Russian leader had a private conversation at Trump’s Beast Limusin during the summit in Alaska. In China, Putin surpassed Trump, inviting Modi to get into his car, and a photographer was available to capture the one -hour friendly conversation inside.

The reception of XI A Modi was similar to that of Putin.

India is “to signal to the US that we have alternatives, and China may be this alternative,” Wong told Anderson at CNN International.

“I would say China is taking this opportunity.”

Trump’s mistake is even more surprising, as he got along with Modi during his first term. But India is a deeply proud nation whose colonial history makes it especially sensitive to intimidation. It is extremely sensitive to anything related to its Pakistan archrival. Such subtleties seem to escape the White House. Perhaps the purge of state department experts by Trump is having a negative impact.

Russia is often portrayed in the West as a decaying power, a shadow of the Soviet Union, despite its vast nuclear arsenal. There is some truth in this, after 25 years of Putin’s corrupt government. But the Russian leader reinforced his image by challenging Trump.

This led the US President to express disappointment and resort to his classic tactic of provoking apparently imminent ads to save his embarrassment. He told reporters on Tuesday that he had talked to Putin and “learned things that will be very interesting. I think in the coming days you will find out.”

Many foreign policy experts thought that a shrewd goal for Trump’s second term would be to push the US opponents such as Russia, China and North Korea. Instead, he approached them and approached India, a member of the US group “Quad” with Australia and Japan, their orbit.

Trump’s performance is in the eyes of those who see

Trump’s supporters contest any characterization of their foreign policy other than a resounding success. The White House argues that the United States has never been so respected in the world. She presents Trump as the “president of peace” and states that he ended seven global wars – even if some of the nations mentioned were not in conflict with each other when Trump intervened.

The president told CNN employee Scott Jennings on his radio show on Tuesday that he was not concerned about the diplomatic signs from China.

He also hinted in a conversation with reporters in the oval room that Xi would be forced to capitulate. “China needs us. And I have a very good relationship with President Xi, as they know. But China needs us a lot more than we need her.”

However, Trump is making obvious attempts to prove that he is as hard as any world leader.

On Monday, while superpowers’ diplomacy unfolded in the Pacific, he announced a US attack that killed 11 people at sea off Venezuela, which, according to authorities, targeted drug traffickers. The attack may announce a military campaign with questionable legal basis with regard to Congress authorization.

He also reiterated the threats of sending National Guard reservists to Chicago, while methodically intensifies his efforts to normalize the use of the Armed Forces in the application of the law, despite constitutional restrictions. But there has been a reminder that despite their authoritarian instincts, the United States still have democratic safeguards that Russia and China do not have, when a judge decided that federal troops to Los Angeles earlier this year was illegal.

The president has some significant victories in his second term. The use of US power against smaller nations is causing the tariff money between gushing in the treasure. And despite his stumbling blocks, he remains the only world leader with a hypothesis of forcing all parties to sit at the table in search of peace in Ukraine. Its relentless pressure on NATO allies led to significant commitments to increase defense spending.

But the Chinese superpower party this week shows that it is critical to US power that it somehow prevails about Beijing in the trade war.

The numerous flattery that the president has received from foreign leaders who seek to avoid his wrath may be giving him a false impression of how the rest of the world sees him. “Our country is the hottest country in the world right now,” said Trump on Tuesday. “Everyone is talking about the US.”

The United States was probably in the mouth of many of those who gathered in China this week. But not exactly the way Trump thinks.