China is playing Trump on foreign policy
by Tom Rogan | Dec 29, 2017, 4:53 PM
There can no longer be any doubt: President Xi of China is playing President Trump.
After all, in the last few weeks we've learned that:
China has ignored U.N. sanctions agreements by continuing to smuggle oil to North Korea.
China sent a nuclear scientist defector back to North Korea, where he was either killed or committed suicide.
China has made significant advances in consolidating its island militarization efforts in the South and East China seas.
China has escalated its direct military threats to Taiwan.
Of course, it's not terribly surprising that the Chinese are behaving in this manner. As I warned during Trump's recent visit to Beijing, absent a U.S. willingness to consistently pressure Xi Jinping on a deliver-the-results basis, the Chinese leader will run circles around America.
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