After Two Whiplash Trump Years, Democrats Have Two More to Get China Right
Newsweek · Didi Kirsten Tatlow ·
As Democrats emerge from two years of Trumpism, some are looking to the 2028 presidential election. That will need a China policy.
Donald Trump’s China policies are contradictory, veering between threats and flattery and, most recently, settling into an uncomfortable kind of détente.
That has been evidenced by razzmatazz summits with Chinese leader Xi Jinping where not much gets discussed. Xi is said to loathe meeting him or even meeting his eye, despite Trump’s avowals of friendship.
In fact, for two years, Trump has flip-flopped; for example, onshoring semiconductor production on national security grounds, then selling national security-sensitive semiconductors hand over fist to China, all at the same time.
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