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Donald trump doesn’t want to talk to Xi Jinping and speculates a break with China in response to “the worst attack the United States has ever suffered” with a “virus created or manipulated in the laboratory” that “probably,” he said, went out of control.
“What would happen if we completely broke the relationship? We would save 500 billion,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News, referring approximately to the value of the exchange between United States is China. The escalation of Trump’s rhetoric against Beijing is not a surprise: it perhaps represents his most coherent political position.
“Covid-19 arrived as the Second Cold War intensified, between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, the two superpowers of our time, with the European Union and the other American allies who silently hope they will not be affected. Aligned” , observes the historian and columnist of the Spectator Niall Ferguson.
In the wake of the elections, even before taking office in the Oval Office and launching its service offensive, the 5G and the new Silk Road, the Magnate spoke to the Taiwanese leader by phone Tsai Ing-Wen questioning the need of the United States to respect the “Unique Principle of China”.
What seemed like a diplomatic mistake was the first selection of half a century relations between Washington and Beijing after the historic thaw between Richard Nixon is Mao Tse Tung, designed in the 1970s by Henry Kissinger also to remove China from the Soviet Union.
It is as if Trump were playing Nixon’s card in reverse: approaching Moscow in an anti-Chinese key, that is, seducing the Kremlin to weaken the axis with Beijing dedicated to growing (and caring about American supremacy) collaboration in the political, economic, and military spheres.
If the connection to Moscow cost Russiagate with the consequent dismissal process, which the magnate attributes to the “deep state,” the fact that China has clear responsibilities on the origin of the pandemic and its spread, corroborates the narrative of the Chief of the White House against the Dragon State.
Whether it started from the market or from the Wuhan, virus undermines Beijing’s credibility and hegemonic plans Xi Jinping on the international chess board. In the United States, however, infections exceed 1.3 million and deaths are 84,000 compared to 4,600 deaths in China.
To prevent the presidential election from becoming a referendum on his response to the pandemic, Trump is dragging the designated democratic rival into this campaign, Joe Biden, painting it as the pro-Chinese alternative.
In turn, Biden accused Trump of neglecting the trade deal pandemic with China, the strength of his first term. While the economy is falling in the United States (and Europe), China unexpectedly saw a 3.5% annual jump in exports and a trade surplus of more than $ 45 billion against a surplus of 6 and 10 billion expected by analysts .
American hawks fear that China may emerge strengthened by the pandemic and demand countermeasures. Since China’s purchases of agricultural products by stars and stripes have crumbled, Beijing, through the Global Times, proposed the hypothesis of renegotiating “phase 1” of the trade agreement signed with the United States in January.
Trump categorically excluded this possibility. However, he is convinced that China is involved in piracy to beat the United States in the race for the Covid vaccine, the next front of this new Cold War.
