Op-Ed: Asia-Pacific Trump rally killed by US-China standoff

by Dramelin 8:00 PM 0 comments

And now President Trump wants to build 350 new ships, most of which will apparently go to protect commerce and navigation in Asia-Pacific.
But, who knows, globalists may prevail again so that we can continue to spend the money we don`t have.
If that is meant to be a tip of the hat to Commodore Perry (aka, the Father of the U.
S.
Navy), who opened up trade with Asia-Pacific, rich Asians should be paying for this vitally important public good.
Do the Chinese mean that they will no longer claim their contested maritime borders in the East and South China Seas, and that they won`t crush the South Korean economy because the Koreans agreed to deploy a THAAD anti-ballistic missile system? But the main difference is this: Last year, the U.
S.
booked a $69 billion trade deficit with Japan, while China took a $44 billion surplus trading with its virulently hostile Japanese neighbor.