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by thursday0987 2016 days ago
> China while rolling over for China.

can you clarify this? in what ways did he roll over for china?

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This article covers the economic side pretty well:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-29/trump-s-c...

No action on jobs, no progress on IP infringement or tech transfer, no action on currency manipulation or subsidies, trade deficit remains huge.

And that's without mentioning the TPP or South China Seas or treatment of minorities or Hong Kong and Democracy or basic human rights or Covid.

China is a huge issue. The huge issue of the next decade. Its the only thing I agree with Trumps manifesto about. But on all these fronts, trump has at best achieved nothing and at worse looked weak, weakened the Web of alliances that made China hesitate and make the US look weak and ineffective.

He rolled over on trade, the deficit jobs and ip in his failed little "trade war". He rolled over when he supported Xi over protestors. He's been too busy making hay and fucking up to properly question why zoonotic viruses keep coming out of China so he's rolled over on that too.

Failing to ban tiktok is yet another example of how poorly he's done.

Seriously, reasonable people on all sides agree that China is an issue. No one can say trump has made any progress on China.