Trump is in Beijing, where he was met not be Xi Jinping but by cheering children, which I have to think is subtle Epstein shade being thrown by the CCP.
Here is what I fear is going to be the outcome: Xi will agree to help extricate the US and the world from the Iran Fustercluck in return for the US selling out Taiwan. For Xi, Taiwan is a similar obsession as Putin felt for the former Soviet Republics that are moving to integrate with Europe. He wants it "back" and seems intent on making that happen.
Trump - who is absolutely without morals or loyalty - would sell Tiffany Trump to a human trafficking organization if it would help him assuage the narcissistic injury he's suffering through with regards to Iran. Selling out Taiwan for an off ramp would be something he would jump at.
What Trump the Idiot fails to understand is that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would be similar to America's attack on Iran. Taiwan holds a central position in the global economy as the computer chip maker to the world. While Xi no doubt wants Taiwan for reputational reasons, effectively monopolizing chip manufacture would vault China's global prominence clearly ahead of a declining Trumpist America.
Taiwan, though, has no doubt looked at the looming mainland threat and Ukraine's spirited defense and begun to prepare a drone force to thwart a Chinese invasion. If Xi really is that reckless, the resulting conflict would basically throttle off the majority of the world's supply of chips.
Dictators are often cagey and capable as they ascend to power, but once in power, they can be captured by their own hubris. It's happened to Putin; it happened to Orban; it happened to Trump. Has it happened to Xi?
Part of the war on expertise is a war on the status quo. For many people, the status quo is not what they want, so they feel eager to overturn things like "globalization" or "liberal economics" or "the liberal postwar order." Once it's gone, though, they might realize what it is that they have lost.
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