Pax Americana was short-lived and pretty f*cked up, Maybe China will have a better run
Pakistan is ditching the dollar for trade with China — 24 hours after Trump denounced the country
A day after President Donald Trump slammed Pakistan on Twitter, the South Asian nation announced it will replace the dollar with yuan for bilateral trade with Beijing
As U.S.-Pakistan relations grow increasingly strained, China has been pursuing closer links with the country
Yea… That worked really well for Tibet.
FYI. This has been in the making for years.
This is from 2013
https://nyti.ms/WUG8v0
From 2015
https://nyti.ms/1HpfRjg
Welcome to the idea.
China has been building infrastructure and building relationships in all the place we deem “poor” and “bad” for 20 years. See, also, Africa.
True. Trump has simply super-charged China’s efforts.
With Bannon off the scene, Trump’s “America First” nonsense has lost the only person who could justify it intellectually, however wanting the explanation was.
Every country’s foreign policy is actually “[My Country Here] First.” Because everyone else is playing a game to actually win, instead of just appearing to win, they don’t say so out loud. The West’s retreat opens the door for China’s engagement, but now matter how soft a glove feels, the hand inside can still form a fist. All colonialists, no matter how benign, become resented soon enough.