Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump
theatlantic.comThey’ve been only humoring, and cleverly outplaying, every American administration. Trump is just the latest ineffective and gullible leader who isn’t succeeding at either economic competition or containment of the authoritarian CCP’s power.
True, but there's also a lot of truth in the rest of the article. America's power seems to be on the wane.
Seems more like self harm.
That's minimizing the extent to which Trump is vastly stupider, and has no bench depth behind him to make up for it.