Just how will the Beijing leadership adjust to Trump 2.0?
Less than three months after taking office, the Biden administration raised the curtain on what would be the perpetual failure to gain a diplomatic upper hand over China. Over the last four years, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan were simply no match for their Chinese Communist Party (CCP) counterparts.
If there was any equilibrium establishing each country’s equities, it quickly gravitated to the advantage of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). China has, in the intervening Biden years, increased its worldwide military and economic presence, initiated continuous harassment of its neighbors in and around the South China Sea, became a menacing threat to Taiwan, and openly engaged the Philippines in warlike behavior over…
