hina wants that to be them, they need it to be them to be the preeminent super power. What's the best way to do that? Make the U.S. look weak, and then step in.
Those same papers signalled reduced support for north Korea leadership last week should they threaten America.
I don't really buy the grand plan is all China quite frankly. I agree with the premise of incentives, but Trump been offering them that carrot since the beginning. They didn't take it at numerous times it would have been prudent. Negotiating by xi? Maybe. But it didnt come until Trump increased the stick.
Trump doesn't want to deal with anything foreign if he doesn't have to. Trump cares about secure borders, jobs, and no military or terrorist attacks on America. That's probably about it as his core. Everything after that is not seen as the executive primary. He's a jobs president, let everyone else figure out that other stuff at the state and local levels.
The only thing Trump wants out of win on North Korea is negotiating such that China gets more out of playing leader on North Korea than they get out of fucking us by proxy with north Korea. His approach has been both carrot and stick.
If this was just China's timing trying to make us look weak, they waited until Trump's madman routine will also look like it's paid dividends. Further supporting a USA military interventionist threat as effective policy??? How does that make more sense than Trump letting them have the leadership limelight from day one?
