Weird that you people think after hundreds of years you’re going to align with China over the United States because of the Current president that probably won’t even be alive in the next decade
It’s not. Most competent leaders have seen that there’s no benefit to feeding Trump’s shenanigans for our ever dwindling economic power. It’s literally basic economics that competition will reduce the price each empire will set, so most economies will be better off now that Trump officially ushered in a multipolar world
All American goods were backed by an unmatched global empire that leveraged its wealth, military, and soft power. Our cushy trade agreements rely on credibility and trust that Trump has burned overnight. Think all the bridges burned by Brexit only worse
edit: also other imperial services like protection from regional enemies
Trump is a symptom of a problem in the US that has been developing since the 80s. When he dies the problem doesn’t go away
Maybe not overnight, but all friends begin as strangers.
The issue with the US isn’t exactly Trump himself, it’s that nearly half of American voters endorse him and that there’s a line of vying inheritors for his brand of politics forming.
Trade, foreign, and domestic policy in the US can now be reasonably assumed to turn on a dime every few years, and that’s exposure to risk that nobody wants to deal with.
Even within the four years, we’re like three months in and the man is rapidly changing his mind on the fundamentals of international relationships. Whether he’s manipulating markets, trying to force capitulation somehow, or something else is irrelevant - other countries are more stable and those relationships can provide what’s needed.
Idk what’s up but you can say something about china on lemmy and watch ccp minions stalk you for days. I do it sometimes when I wait in bank queue.
I like to think I am wasting regime’s money
Several billions of us too late, m8…
I feel including dictatorships in your economy is not a good idea from Europe’s perspective… They would do well to find some new democracies to rely on instead
People (… who don’t want to admit that he’s a home-grown disease) love to talk about how Trump is a Russian asset.
… But like. Have we considered that he is a Chinese asset instead?
China seems to really benefit from his shenanigans. Everyone is snuggling up to them while the US are fucking about.
There’s been memes on Chinese social media since at least 2020 calling him Comrade Chuān Jiànguó (川建国) and saying he’s working to destroy the US to China’s benefit. Chuan is just a sinicized form of Trump and Jianguo is a given name from the first decades of the PRC (Trump’s generation) that means “to build/found the [Chinese] nation”
I think he’s most often called a Russian asset because he has multiple apparent connections to the Russian government. Just looking up ‘trump Russian ties’ brings up multiple different articles detailing ties which connect Trump to Putin. It’s not necessarily proven, but the general view in media at least is: if trump is a foreign agent, he’s a Russian one.
Trump would not allow his VP call the Chinese “peasants” if the president is a Chinese asset.
It’d be really weird if he was a Chinese asset as he is pretty damn sinophobic
