Opinion 52% of Americans see China has the biggest threat to the US

[cottagecheesefan]

Great work
https://twitter.com/trumpjew2/status/1471273346537078794?s=21

just look at his leather face. Looks exactly like you would think an evil, piece of shit, corrupt politician would like, who lied about serving in Vietnam.

 

[CaptHANDSUP]

Obama didn't allow anything. The Philippines cut a deal with their fishing rights. It's on them. What exactly was the US to do when two nations negotiate a deal? Regardless, this deal changes nothing on how EEZ's are recognized under international law. Philippines' EEZ is still their's, and their decision to rent it out is on them.



Well how hard should we go? The only point to navigation drills are for a show of force, and to deny that China has some sort of exclusive right to the seas in question. I think those two were met. If you think we needed more Naval exercises in the region, I'd be curious as to what you think was enough, or what other objective you hope to reach.



Mobilize public opinion? Well he did it in two separate directions. Sure Trump would get on state and awkwardly pronounce "Chyyyyyna," but the guy was also tweeting out more praise for Xi than any other previous president. You can't say trump was working hard to put the Chinese on everyones shit list, when he couldn't negotiate a tariff deal without first shamefully buttering them up.

And that's failing to mention the trump administrations near total silence on the Uyghar camps.

The reason we are still moving on tariffs is, what other choice do we have? You see that's the problem when a new President just shows up and shitcans the previous deal. The #1 fear for the nations partnered in TPP was, what if the US just walks away from the deal? Remember we are asking these nations to take a risk and helping them develop a more complicated manufacturing and export process than they'd have to if they just went with a closer neighbor like China. But we did it. Got it off the ground and running, and then a few years later the Trump administration killed it. So what did those nations do, they pivoted right back to China, often at great or unnecessary costs to themselves. And they did it because the US just said fuck it, and tore up the previous contract.
So what is going to entice these nations to come back to the negotiating table? More promises that this won't happen again, when there is the real possibility that another republican administration could just tear that next agreement.

Bottom line, the Obama administration didn't put us in this corner. Trump did.

This is pretty stressful to read about. I didnt know about the Trump and TPP situation.

 

[Yehudim]

Sure, and Lee specifically says the US is better at being the "big power" in multilateral groups, whereas China says it wants multilateralism, but doesn't act accordingly.
The opportunity is certainly there, and Biden has started off doing what he can with the Digital Economy Agreement and the Climate Summit, but as said it's going to take more than 4 years and it will be hard for the US to return to a point where they are credited on any policy which extends beyond the term limits of it's current administration (be that 4 or 8 years).

It’s going to take more than 4 years but Biden is actually building bipartisan consensus and is passing things into law via congress and not executive orders, unlike the Obama and Trump foreign policies which were like the words of a dictator - meaningless when they’re out of office.

Never underestimate our ability to fuck shit up, but at the same time, all of the signs are good.