Great Substack piece by David R. Lurie: "Trump goes to China, without any cards"
Decades after Richard Nixon went to China, America needs a president with the strategic mindset of Nixon (but not his amorality) to deal with a Chinese regime that has become a hub of authoritarianism across the globe.
Instead, we have Donald Trump, who just went to China as a supplicant, freely offering to help China undermine America itself in return for the promise of alleviation from the consequences of his own catastrophic political and military blunders and profits for his cronies.
In 1972, Nixon and Henry Kissinger pulled off the greatest gambit of the Cold War when Nixon surprised the world with a visit to China, a country that had been largely closed to the West since the victory of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949.
Kissinger famously labeled Nixon’s foreign policy, and particularly the opening to China, as “realism,” reflecting a willingness to deal with the rule of the most repugnant regimes in order to serve what the two deemed to be the interests of the United States.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-china-summit-failure