August 28, 2017

When Donald J. Trump entered the presidential race and even more so after he became America’s 45th president in January, his antagonists in the US media, Hollywood, academe and the Democratic Party, denigrated his background, his knowledge and ideas, and his policies.

Their narrative was hypercritical when the discussion turned to US foreign policy. Articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post and other liberal mainstream media described Trump as having no experience that would help him understand diplomatic protocol or the established tenets of past and present foreign policy. He was said to be an unthinking protectionist, isolationist, and anti-globalist. Donald Trump, they posited, would wreck the global order.

Regarding specifically US relations with China, they said Trump was even worse. His charges that China was a currency manipulator, that China was the source of Americans losing their jobs and the shuttering of US factories, and that a 45 percent tariff should be applied to China’s imports to the US, were said to be provocative in the extreme and dangerous. Trump’s opponents said he would start a trade war.

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