The president\u2019s policies have weakened the US\u2019s competitive position and undermined its alliances to China\u2019s advantage<\/p>\n
If Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s presidency has any theme (beyond self-promotion), it\u2019s that his \u201cAmerica First\u201d agenda will Make America Great Again. Unfortunately for the American people, if Trump\u2019s maneuvers and machinations have made any nation greater, it\u2019s been China, not the United States.<\/p>\n During Trump\u2019s first term, he treated China<\/a> as a strategic rival and often talked of checking its rise. His administration complained that China was seeking to \u201cchallenge American power\u201d<\/a> and \u201cerode American security and prosperity\u201d. But during his first year back in the White House, Trump \u2013 in governing by whim and impulse with little strategic vision – has done lots to Make China Great Again.<\/p>\n Steven Greenhouse is a journalist and author, focusing on labour and the workplace, as well as economic and legal issues<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president\u2019s policies have weakened the US\u2019s competitive position and undermined its alliances to China\u2019s advantage If Donald Trump\u2019s presidency has any theme (beyond self-promotion), it\u2019s that his \u201cAmerica First\u201d agenda will Make America Great Again. Unfortunately for the American people, if Trump\u2019s maneuvers and machinations have made any nation greater, it\u2019s been China, not … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}