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Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by srtjstjsj on Sunday September 06, 2020 @01:09PM (#24392829)
That doesn't make sense. Trump is pro Russia and anti China. Chinese facing more heat now than in the past 50 years.
Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by pwh on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:40PM (#24393595)
His public anti-china stance is just a show. Many of his family business dealings are total opposite. Moreover, his presidency is good for China. Fomenting domestic division, weakening law and order, constant attack on the constitution, weakening alliances, being cozy with dictators, on and on, only benefit china, russia and other dictators.
Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by ideals on Sunday September 06, 2020 @03:54PM (#24394161)
> His public anti-china stance is just a show.

This is confirmed by John Bolton (I guess if you believe what he wrote in his book that the President attempted in court to block).

Trump “turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-lies-china...

Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by ntsplnkv2 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @01:58PM (#24393232)
The West is not just the US. I clearly said "A unified western response to China."
Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by ardy42 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @01:29PM (#24392993)
> That doesn't make sense. Trump is pro Russia and anti China. Chinese facing more heat now than in the past 50 years.

Trump is schizophrenic on China. His "anti-China" attitudes right now seem more of a function of a need for an external enemy to blame/distract from his domestic failures. His trade war with China occurred around the same time he initiated trade disputed with even allied nations. There are even indications that he is not bothered by, and perhaps even approves of, Chinese human rights violations (e.g. IIRC Bolton has said he expressed approval of the Xinjiang camps directly to Xi).

I believe some of his advisors are more opposed to current Chinese government actions, but Trump's shown a willingness to do foreign policy 180s against their advice before.

Re:Hong Kong mourns the end of its way of life by icebraining on Sunday September 06, 2020 @04:20PM (#24394352)
That's not "schizophrenic". He dislikes China insofar as it harms US economic interests, not based on their internal policies. It's fully aligned with his motto of "America first" - first means before everyone, including the Uighurs.

Frankly, it doesn't even strike me as that different from previous administrations (it's not like the US particularly cared about what happened to the East Timorese, for example), he mostly just seems more short-sighted, by focusing on money rather than power.