Meanwhile, The Chinese Think Trump Is A Genius

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

American Thinker
Monica Showalter 7/29/18

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/the_chinese_think_trump_is_a_genius.html

Has anyone ever called the Chinese 'stupid'? Not those guys.

So now they're reading President Trump, and unlike the childish Eurotrash of western Europe, they see a shrewd, wily, chess-playing, Sun Tzu-grade genius, who could easily checkmate them, and they've got a lot of reasons for thinking so.

That's the report from a European policy-domo, who actually went to Beijing and asked the local leaders what they were seeing. The report that European Council of Foreign Relations President Mark Leonard gives, in the Financial Times, is well worth the subscription or trial subscription to read it. Some of his thoughts from the pice can be read on Instapundit, however. Here's a bit of what Glenn Reynolds posted:

    I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by his skill as a strategist and tactician. . . .

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Was it Sun Tzu or someone who noted the importance of persuading your adversaries that you are more powerful than you may appear to be?

Actually Trump himself did, in this Sun Tzu tweet here. Trump, after all, is a big fan of Sun Tzu.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/225244643837751296?lang=en

Is Trump Using Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Machiavelli's The Prince?

https://www.quora.com/Is-Trump-using-Sun-Tzus-The-Art-of-War-and-Machiavellis-The-Prince

[darroll]

The Chinese respect strength.
When I was in China a nut was holding a kid with a gun up to his head.
The cop distracted the bad guy and blew his brains out.
The cop went and had lunch and he made the guys parents clean up the mess.