GORDON CHANG: Is Trump Looking For A Grand Bargain With China?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Trump, of course, likes to make deals -- famously he is the co-author of Trump: The Art of the Deal -- and he could very well be looking to strike one with the Chinese regime.
51% : "Solving all the world's problems, something Trump believes Xi and he can do, would ideally be one of them.
40% : Earlier in the month, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris and stated this in connection with efforts to end the war in Eastern Europe: "China can help.
39% : As an initial matter, Trump has already tried to reach an accommodation with China: his Phase One Trade pact of January 2020.
37% : "Trump wants to keep them all guessing," Gregory Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association, told Gatestone after the Mar-a-Lago press event.
28% : It is unlikely that Trump can do better this time with a Xi Jinping who is even far more arrogant than he was four years ago.
28% : New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman can argue that China should "let in more Taylor Swifts," but that is exactly what Xi Jinping, who has been relentlessly attacking foreign culture, does not want to do.Third, Trump faces an additional hurdle in his hoped-for dealings with the Chinese leader: Xi probably no longer has the clout in Beijing he once possessed.
24% : "Trump knows that Xi Jinping has been brought back under control by the Communist Party of China and by his loss of a power base within the People's Liberation Army," Copley, who is also editor-in-chief of Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, pointed out.
20% : "An arrogant Xi Jinping is clearly in no mood to come to terms with Trump -- or anyone else for that matter.
14% : So which Trump will we see starting at noon on January 20, 2025?Only one individual truly knows, and Trump himself is not showing his hand.

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