Well, the USA under President Trump is giving up its world leadership position, preferring to follow a "king-of-the-mountain" competition along with the rest. It's adherence to a "survival of the fittest" philosophy, whereby it is out to prove it's the best of all the rest and so deserve to dominate the international scene. That is to say, should there be a rogue nation who dares to refrain from doing as the US dictates, it shall warrant punishment and isolation by all others who comprise a fake 'league of nation-states' on the planet.
From China's point of view, that the US is no longer interested in leading the world towards democratic governance on a global scale has provided the opportunity for it to assert continental and regional dominance free of competition from its neighbors. It is moving ahead in financial and trade matters through the TPP, even as the US forsakes this emerging trade organization for the whole of Asia. It has also taken up an aggressive posture in the South China Seas, and though confronting harsh criticism from nations in the West, boldly supports the North Korean regime in its quest for ascendancy to world-acclamation as a threatening nuclear power. Now, today, China and its ally North Korea, hold supremacy among all other nations in Asia giving cause for Japan and South Korea to live in fear.
Ah yes, the words of President Trump ought to allay such fears. "What is going on in Asia?" he wonders. "Don't you worry, I have my own agenda," he tells anyone who would pay attention to his twittering!
Listen, this individual President is in deep political mire with the Washington establishment he gladly angers.
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