Trump has ceded global leadership to China, says Nixon trip aide

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A key figure in former US president Richard Nixon’s trip to Beijing in 1972 has criticised Donald Trump for ceding global leadership to China, calling Trump’s Asia tour “a repair mission”.

Winston Lord, who as a young foreign service officer travelled to China with former US national security adviser Henry Kissinger before Nixon to lay the groundwork for the historic visit, said Trump’s foreign policy had served to “make China great again”.

Lord took Trump to task at an Asia Society event in New York for “being tougher on allies than he is on dictators and sucking up to [China’s President Xi Jinping] … flip-flopping on Taiwan, accepting Chinese actions on North Korea as being more decisive than they really are.”

Lord said Trump’s “America first” policy meant leaving the field to China.

“The fact that his foreign policy is essentially military only – and with his trade disruption and total inattention to human rights and democracy promotion and soft power, and gutting the State Department – all of this weakens our posture,” said Lord, who served as US ambassador to China under former president Ronald Reagan, a Republican, and assistant secretary of state for Asian and Pacific Affairs under former president Bill Clinton, a Democrat. “I’ve never talked about presidents this way in sessions. [Trump] is unique.”

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http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2119063/trump-has-ceded-global-leadership-china-says-nixon-trip

 

what an embarrassment, rolling over for Xi every step of the way. Blames US for unfair Chinese practices, seems in awe of Xi, and didn't fight to let the press ask questions. As Gerge W Bush said, just a blowhard.

 

[CaliCat 3,957]

More lies from the Trump regime. He criticized China for currency manipulation and said he'd stop it. He said he'd hire the "best negotiators" to cut deals with China. He said he'd bring them to the table to agree on fairer trade deals. In the end, he just couldn't follow through. 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

A key figure in former US president Richard Nixon’s trip to Beijing in 1972 has criticised Donald Trump for ceding global leadership to China, calling Trump’s Asia tour “a repair mission”.

Winston Lord, who as a young foreign service officer travelled to China with former US national security adviser Henry Kissinger before Nixon to lay the groundwork for the historic visit, said Trump’s foreign policy had served to “make China great again”.

Lord took Trump to task at an Asia Society event in New York for “being tougher on allies than he is on dictators and sucking up to [China’s President Xi Jinping] … flip-flopping on Taiwan, accepting Chinese actions on North Korea as being more decisive than they really are.”

Lord said Trump’s “America first” policy meant leaving the field to China.

“The fact that his foreign policy is essentially military only – and with his trade disruption and total inattention to human rights and democracy promotion and soft power, and gutting the State Department – all of this weakens our posture,” said Lord, who served as US ambassador to China under former president Ronald Reagan, a Republican, and assistant secretary of state for Asian and Pacific Affairs under former president Bill Clinton, a Democrat. “I’ve never talked about presidents this way in sessions. [Trump] is unique.”

I can't ROFL enough about someone from the Nixon administration critiquing foreign and economic policy.  Second worst President in American history, behind only Bowing Barrack.

[jayjayj 571]

2 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2119063/trump-has-ceded-global-leadership-china-says-nixon-trip

 

what an embarrassment, rolling over for Xi every step of the way. Blames US for unfair Chinese practices, seems in awe of Xi, and didn't fight to let the press ask questions. As Gerge W Bush said, just a blowhard.

 

He didn't blame the U.S, he blamed weak U.S. leadership for the trade imbalance.  When the Chinese see a weak leader who they don't respect, they make him exit through the back of Air Force One.  

[Jacque67 7,328]

23 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

More lies from the Trump regime. He criticized China for currency manipulation and said he'd stop it. He said he'd hire the "best negotiators" to cut deals with China. He said he'd bring them to the table to agree on fairer trade deals. In the end, he just couldn't follow through. 

 

 

All that gold must have impressed him. He's authoritarian curious. The Chinese aren't supposed to have say on press access, Xi played him well. He's off to meet his puppet master in Vietnam tomorrow. How sweet. A yearly report to Putin.

[CaliCat 3,957]

5 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

All that gold must have impressed him. He's authoritarian curious. The Chinese aren't supposed to have say on press access, Xi played him well. He's off to meet his puppet master in Vietnam tomorrow. How sweet. A yearly report to Putin.

 

No wonder he's managed to bankrupt a casino. What a fraud!

[Jacque67 7,328]

11 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

No wonder he's managed to bankrupt a casino. What a fraud!

Indeed.

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/22/politics/trump-taj-mahal/index.html

[jayjayj 571]

26 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

No wonder he's managed to bankrupt a casino. What a fraud!

But yet, he isn't selling copies of his book in the toilet paper isle of Costco! 

[Jacque67 7,328]

41 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

No wonder he's managed to bankrupt a casino. What a fraud!

Oh no. He's covering his bets and he's such a poor gambler!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/world/asia/trump-xi-jinping-north-korea.html

An act of deference to China almost never heard of before...