A Cold Peace With China

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : This international structural change explains the political rise of Trump.
40% : Trump understands this structural fact and puts America, not its so-called "liberal world order," first.
37% : Trump sought to avoid new military entanglements; extricate the U.S. military from its twenty-year occupation of Afghanistan; engage potentially adversarial states like North Korea, China, and Russia in ways that would lessen the possibility of conflict; deter Iran from continuing to destabilize the Middle East without escalating to a major war in the region; and shift the burden of paying for allied defense to wealthy allies rather than American taxpayers.
36% : If Trump wins a second term, the intra-party policy debate between neoconservative primacists, China hawks, and "America First" conservative realists will be decided, provided that this time he hires people who agree with his views.
28% : While Trump talks tough as a means of pressuring other leaders and appeasing his domestic base, as in the case of China during the Covid years, he never acted like a bullying neoconservative primacist.
22% : Even with respect to Iran, which appears as a lone exception with the killing of Soleimani and the cancelation of the JCPOA, Trump pulled back several times from the brink of using significant U.S. military force.

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