Asia-Pacific Realpolitik: Beijing to Jump on Trump Bandwagon
SputnikNews.com
12.11.2016
Beijing may take advantage of Donald Trump’s win, a Chinese journalist suggests. The newly elected US President is likely to kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) project and reconsider relations with America’s Asia-Pacific military allies thus reducing geopolitical pressure on China.
China could take advantage of Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, Wang Xiangwei, the former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, suggests in his recent article.
“As expected, Chinese leaders largely remained reticent on the American election — until Wednesday when President Xi Jinping congratulated Trump in a telegram, saying he hoped to work with him to develop bilateral ties from a new starting point,” Wang points out.
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