China is in trouble. Their agenda has been thwarted by Trump. And Chinese and Russian disinformation campaigns no longer work as they have in the past. How will they be able to compete long-term?

Remember my many discussions about Trump playing the long-game? With a recent declaration, Trump shot over the Chinese bow…

Trump is genuinely not afraid of China

China didn’t kick down the door of the American economy. It slipped in through the souvenir shop.

No tanks. No missiles. Just cheap plastic, novelty mugs, and “Made in China” stamped so small you needed a jeweler’s loupe and a prayer to spot it. While America argued about pronouns and carbon footprints, China was quietly selling us our own nostalgia back at a discount. We called it globalization. They called it Tuesday.

That’s the part most people miss when they talk about trade. They focus on factories the size of cities, container ships stacked like Lego sets, and steel tariffs that make economists sweat through their khakis. But President Donald Trump understands something that the Ivy League trade priests never did: empires don’t collapse from a single cannon blast. They bleed out from a million paper cuts.

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